Friday 05.23.25
"Half a dozen more coming": Agriculture Sec. Rollins announces state waivers barring "junk food" food-stamp purchases.
“If something is beautiful, you don’t do it after midnight”: GOP Rep. Massie rips his party’s “big, beautiful” megabill.
"Ridiculous line of questioning": Leavitt scolds reporter questioning Trump false claim of South African "burial site."
“Is [Putin] a war criminal?”: Marco Rubio struggles to answer the same question he grilled Rex Tillerson over in 2017.
"Attending it in his personal time": White House on if it'll provide list of crypto investors who bought a Trump dinner.
“Death, death, horrible death”: Trump ambushes South African president and pushes false genocide claims in Oval Office.
“Turn the lights down”: Trump, in Oval Office, plays montage of threats against white Afrikaners to allege genocide.
“They ask a lot of questions in a very pointed way”: Trump attacks NBC for question about letting in white Afrikaners.
“What’s [Trump’s] favorite child?”: White House invites kid reporters to briefing room. The questions didn’t disappoint.
"Intercepting missiles ... even if ... launched from space": Trump announces the "golden dome missile defense shield."
“I’ve done enough”: Elon Musk says he’ll be doing “a lot less” political spending in the future, doesn’t “see a reason.”
“Excuse me, that’s incorrect”: Sen. Maggie Hassan takes DHS Sec. Kristi Noem to task on the definition of habeas corpus.
President Trump signs the Take It Down Act, alongside Melania Trump, into law, which cracks down on revenge porn.
Oncologist says Biden has had prostate cancer for “maybe even a decade”: “He had it while he was president.”
“Speaking about Taylor Swift’s political views”: Peter Doocy asks press sec about Trump saying popstar “no longer hot.”
“Not only will the show go on, but it must go on”: As Trump cuts funding for arts, a Harlem theatre is fighting back.
“You’re losing a bunch”: Kagan grills Trump admin over opposing nationwide injunctions at birthright citizenship case.
“It is a government-to-government transaction”: Qatari PM defends offering Trump a $400 million luxury jet.
"Go look at the transcript": RFK Jr. spars with Sen. Chris Murphy over whether Kennedy recommends the measles vaccine.
“I will not yield to disrespectful men”: AOC clashes with Republican over her speaking directly into camera at hearing.
"There will be plenty of scrutiny": Sen. Maj. Leader Thune on Trump's plan to accept a $400 million Qatari luxury jet.
GOP Rep. Blake Moore has to be woken up during 4:57 a.m. vote in House committee’s marathon budget markup session.
"Don't think people should be taking ... medical advice from me": RFK Jr. on if he'd vaccinate his child for measles.
“How do they explain that away?”: Some Republicans offer rare rebuke of Trump saying he’d accept $400M jet from Qatar.