Loomer met with Trump and other top White House officials in the Oval Office on Wednesday, two sources familiar with the meeting told NBC News.

After multiple Trump administration national security crises including SignalGate, GmailGate, the passwords scandal, and new revelations that the National Security Advisor’s team set up at least 20 Signal chats to handle crises,

The White House has fired a handful of National Security Council staffers following a Wednesday meeting with far-right political activist Laura Loomer.

Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky predicted that President Donald Trump's tariffs could lead to the "political decimation" of the Republican Party. Newsweek reached out to the U.S. Treasury for comment via email.

The chamber voted 52-48 to begin debate on a multitrillion-dollar plan that would cut taxes, boost spending for immigration enforcement and the military, and raise the debt limit.

The Senate proposal includes language noting that lawmakers plan to abide by Trump's promise not to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits while protecting them from "waste, fraud, and abuse," though it is not binding. That language is meant to imply that Medicaid spending could be cut, but that the cuts wouldn't reduce benefits.