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The Trump administration claims it is saving billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars by gutting every federal department it can, firing tens of thousands of employees and slashing essential services for Americans. Rest assured all those taxpayer savings is being spent on productive, beneficial projects for the citizenry, like a …

Embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a Fox News interview on Tuesday morning that he has been sharing military attack plans on Signal “for media coordination and other things,” claiming the plans were “informal.” On Sunday, The New York Times reported on the existence of a second Signal chat …

Pete Hegseth barely received enough votes to win confirmation as Donald Trump’s defense secretary. Three Republicans even bucked their own party’s president to oppose him. One of them, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), cited “accusations of financial mismanagement and problems with the workplace culture he fostered.” Another, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), …

Saturday Night Live opened by addressing one of the most concerning stories yet of the second Trump administration: top officials discussing war plans in a group chat that mistakenly included a journalist. Rather than texting only the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes), Vice President …

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update mocked nearly every Trump administration official involved in the scandal of inadvertently providing attack plans to a journalist via a Signal group chat. On Monday, The Atlantic reported that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added the publication’s editor-in-chief to a chat in which Defense …

“I think we are making a mistake,” wrote Vice President J.D. Vance in the now-infamous chat group discussing plans to carry out military strikes in Yemen. To his credit, Vance has been consistent in his skepticism about the use of American military power to solve the world’s problems. It is …

After various senior members of the Trump administration denied sharing “war plans” — classified or otherwise — in a Signal group to which they had inadvertently added The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine is now releasing additional details about the chat’s contents previously withheld over national security concerns. The Atlantic …

Senior Trump administration officials and White House aides had for weeks bragged about how the second Trump era was markedly more disciplined and well-oiled, and less shoot-yourself-in-the-foot shambolic, than the president’s first turn in office. Several of these officials noted to Rolling Stone that this assessment was due in part …

As Rolling Stone reported Wednesday, some Trump administration officials have been privately gossiping among themselves, comparing the now-infamous national security breach in a Signal group chat to something out of the HBO political satire, Veep. These officials are getting it wrong. This ongoing mini-saga of the second Donald Trump era …

Jon Stewart fittingly opened Monday’s episode of The Daily Show with the dumbest news of the day: That an Atlantic journalist was accidentally added to a group chat where high-ranking members of the Trump administration were discussing ostensibly classified plans to bomb Houthi militants in Yemen. And Stewart of course …