Maine Governor Janet Mills stood her ground, as Alex Woodward reports.

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 reports.

The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is pushing ahead with plans to detain undocumented immigrants at military sites throughout the United States, representing a major expansion of efforts to utilize wartime resources to accelerate promised mass deportations.

President Donald Trump’s team is establishing a deportation hub at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Texas, which could eventually accommodate up to 10,000 undocumented immigrants as they go through the process of being deported, three officials familiar with the plan told the Times.

Fort Bliss would serve as a model as the administration aims to develop more detention facilities on military sites across the country — from Utah to the area near Niagara Falls.

The officials said these facilities could potentially hold thousands more people and fill a space shortfall at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the plan is in its early stages and has not been finalized.

Trump said on the campaign trail he intended to rely even more on the military to detain people for deportation.

John Bowden reports from the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, and finds that the glitz of Trumpworld can only paper over so much.

The Pentagon announced on Friday that it would cut 5,400 jobs as part of President Donald Trump’s initiative to reduce the federal workforce, a day after some Republican lawmakers faced jeers from voters back home who are frustrated with this aggressive effort.

The cuts, set to take place next week, represent a small portion of the 50,000 Defense Department job losses that some had expected, but they may not be the last. One senior official, Darin Selnick, noted that the Pentagon plans to implement a hiring freeze and could ultimately shrink its civilian workforce, which currently stands at 950,000, by 5% to 8%.

These cuts are the latest in a rapidly evolving overhaul led by tech billionaire Elon Musk. This overhaul has resulted in the layoff of over 20,000 workers and the dismantling of programs across the U.S. government, from foreign aid to financial oversight.

With reporting from Reuters

Armed men in masks are reportedly patrolling the streets of Cincinnati’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood after a neo-Nazi group demonstrated in the area earlier this month.

The armed civilians are reportedly engaging in more than just a standard watch over their neighborhood, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. The masked men have stopped cars, turned drivers away from the neighborhood, and have allegedly threatened to shoot a property owner.

They’re reportedly protecting the area from neo-Nazi activists, but their tactics have rattled some residents.

Graig Graziosi has the story.

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.

Elon Musk is on a crusade against government spending. Unless, apparently, it’s going to him.

“If action is not taken to curb the deficit, America is in deep trouble. No different than a person who gets into too much debt,” said the DOGE boss on his social network X in December.

Yet according to federal data analyzed by The Independent, Musk’s own companies have been promised or awarded nearly $21 billion by the U.S. government since 2008.

The cash was still flowing as of Feb 17, with another $76.7 million promised since Donald Trump’s inauguration.

So how much of money is the American taxpayer forking over to each of Musk’s companies, and what is it all for?

According to a person with knowledge of the discussions, new FBI Director Kash Patel has told senior officials that he plans to relocate up to 1,000 employees from Washington to field offices around the country and an additional 500 to a bureau facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

The plans were outlined on Friday, coinciding with Patel’s swearing-in at the White House, and align with his repeated vision of minimizing the FBI’s presence in Washington while enhancing its offices in other cities.

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.”