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President Donald Trump is expected to address the Conservative Political Action Conference today.

The timing of his speech is unclear as of Saturday morning.

Vice President JD Vance already addressed the conference Thursday.

Over the sounds of protesters screaming into bullhorns and labelling them insurrectionists and Nazis, members of the neo-fascist Proud Boys gang and Oath Keepers militia reunited at the Capitol to rewrite the history of the January 6 attack and cast themselves as victims of a government-led conspiracy.

Moments later, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio — who was convicted of seditious conspiracy by a jury in Washington, D.C., before he was pardoned by Donald Trump in his first day in office — was arrested after allegedly swatting a phone out of a protesters’s hand.

On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow has been compiling incidents of citizens confronting Republican lawmakers over their concerns about what has unfolded in the first month of the Trump administration.

Congressman Scott Fitzgerald of Wisconsin faced a hostile crowd of voters at a town hall with constituents — mirroring that of his colleague in Georgia yesterday.

They do not appear impressed with the work of DOGE.

Here’s Rep. Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma also having a tough time concerning the VA:

And here’s Rep. Glenn Grotham of Wisconsin getting booed for suggesting Donald Trump has done “some very good things”… and the crowd is not a fan of getting rid of birthright citizenship.

A federal judge has cleared a path for Donald Trump to begin pulling thousands of foreign aid workers off the job, throwing the future of the U.S. Agency for International Development and critical global humanitarian relief into chaos.

Washington, D.C., District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, has lifted his temporary restraining order that blocked the administration from removing all but a fraction of USAID staff and setting a 30-day deadline for global aid workers to move back to the United States.

Alex Woodward filed this report on Friday evening.

Rep Jason Crow of Colorado posted his concerns on X about why the purge of Judge Advocates General at the Department of Defense is also deeply troubling.

The congressman writes: “The purge of senior officers at DOD is deeply troubling, but purging JAG officers worries me the most.

“JAG officers interpret law for our commanders. They help determine what’s lawful and constitutional.

“Replacing these military lawyers with trump loyalists is so dangerous.”

On Friday, attorneys for the AP filed papers asking for an emergency hearing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and accusing the White House of having “ordered The Associated Press to use certain words in its coverage or else face an indefinite denial of access,” thereby violating the First Amendment.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, D.C.

California Democratic Rep Eric Swalwell, a member of the House Homeland Security and Judiciary committees broke down to CNN how federal funding cuts make Americans less safe.

Swalwell gave a list of examples to CNN:

• When you get rid of the bird flu monitors who protect the chickens against bird flu, and then keep the cost of eggs down, that does not make us economically safe.
• When you get rid of people at the FAA as planes are crashing in America, that makes us less safe.
• When you get rid of FBI agents who are supposed to watch out for terrorism, that makes us less safe.
• When you get rid of people at the CDC who are supposed to protect us from a measles outbreak in Texas, that makes us less safe.
• So in California, when you get rid of firefighters at the forest service, as we have unseasonable winds and the fires that have ravaged across Southern California and Northern California, that makes us less safe

Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley faced stinging backlash this week for calling out President Donald Trump’s recent treatment of Ukraine, as social media commenters rushed to remind her she endorsed him.

Haley called Trump’s comments in the post “classic Russian talking points,” and “exactly what Putin wants.”

Democratic California Representative Eric Swalwell fired back on X to ask Haley: “Why did you help him win?”

Michelle Del Rey has the story.

“I love it,” he said late on Wednesday, when asked about the proposal that started on social media.