The Hill reports: Russell Vought, President Trump’s pick to head the White House budget office, told senators in his confirmation questionnaire that he believes the 2020 presidential election was “rigged.” Asked by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) in written questions for the record whether former President Biden won the 2020 election, Vought responded, “I believe that the 2020 election was rigged.” …

The Oklahoman reports: Oklahoma’s top education official said he would support immigration enforcement raids in schools to assist with the White House’s promise of mass deportations. This week, President Donald Trump threw out a federal policy that had been in place since 2011 that discouraged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from making arrests in “protected areas” like schools, medical centers …

Stephen Miller: “The president’s authority to fire any federal worker is plenary. There’s no lawful constraints that can be placed on the president to terminate a worker in the federal government. It’s a discretionary policy. That’s the basis of Article II in the Constitution and the idea of a single executive. When you have anyone in the federal government who …

Axios reports: The White House will issue a memo Tuesday offering to pay federal workers who don’t want to return to the office through Sept. 30, as long as they resign by Feb. 6, an administration official tells Axios. It’s an acceleration in President Trump’s already unprecedented purge of the federal workforce. The White House expects 5% to 10% of …

The Wall Street Journal reports: CVS Health today unveiled a revamped app that aims to shorten long pharmacy lines, deliver more transparency on prescription costs and ultimately make visits to the retail pharmacy chain quicker and less painful. The new features include a bar code that lets pharmacists quickly look up a prescription and receive a payment, a way for …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The administrative stay pauses the freeze until Monday. The White House had planned to start …

CNN reports: Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight — the closest the world has ever been to that marker, according to the Bulletin of the …

The New York Times reports: Starting last summer, former Representative Tulsi Gabbard publicly berated the Biden administration, claiming that she was placed on what she called “a domestic terror watch list” as punishment for critical comments she had made about Vice President Kamala Harris. The reality was more complicated. The additional security measures were triggered by an event she attended …

Mediaite reports: While Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has insisted these claims were false, Trump insisted via social media that the “United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER,” in a late Monday Truth Social post. Enter the highly-esteemed Pentagon reporter Jennifer Griffin — who cited US Defense Officials concurring with …

USA Today reports: The U.S. Senate confirmed Sean Duffy on Tuesday as secretary of Transportation, clearing the way for another of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet officials to start working on plans to improve traffic safety, cut regulations on construction projects and restore public confidence in Boeing. Duffy was confirmed by a vote of 77 to 22. In nominating Duffy to …

CBS News reports: A wide range of organizations and agencies that depend on federal health department funds say they have been locked out of the online system responsible for tracking and depositing their money, in the wake of the White House’s move to freeze funding across the Trump administration. These include state Medicaid programs which have been unable to log …

The Virginia Mercury reports: A separate memo from OMB lists off the programs that will be paused temporarily while it reviews which federal spending it deems appropriate. The list includes the Department of Agriculture’s tribal food sovereignty program, Head Start, the Veterans’ Affairs Department’s suicide prevention and legal services grants, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance, or LIHEAP, program, and numerous …

The New York Times reports: Caroline Kennedy wrote a letter to key senators on Tuesday, calling her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “predator” who is addicted to the attention he gets from airing dangerous views on vaccinations. She called on lawmakers to reject his nomination. She cited his lack of experience, misinformed views on vaccines and personal attributes. In …

“The people that I’m about 50 feet away from are necessarily too happy that the War Room now has me being obviously a voice, not just in terms of asking questions, but I think sort of observing the mainstream press corps. When you just look behind me, you can see how far we’ve come, so thank you from the bottom …

Law & Crime reports: A Jan. 6 rioter who was arrested in Canada after failing to report to prison and attempting to apply for asylum has gotten the green light to come back to the United States — with federal prosecutors quashing the arrest warrant they issued for him earlier this month and dismissing his fleeing justice charge — as …

“I worked my way through high school. I don’t know about you, but I was picking berries in the field before they had child labor laws. You’re telling me that kids who stay at home, instead of going to work at Burger King and McDonald’s during the summer, should stay at home sponging off the government and get their free …

PBS NewsHour reports: The White House is pausing federal grants and loans starting on Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is scheduled to hold a news briefing at 1 p.m. ET. “We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Marcia Howard, executive director of Federal Funds Information …

Florida Politics reports: “I do think they’re gonna use Guantánamo Bay for (an) illegal alien processing site and then they’ll repatriate from their own country from there. What better state to take advantage of that than the state of Florida,” Gov. Ron DeSantis told podcaster Dave Rubin Tuesday. DeSantis was on Rubin’s show as part of a media blitz Tuesday …

The Huffington Post reports: The Donald Trump administration’s Monday night announcement that it would pause all federal grants has caused concern among nonprofit organizations that administer senior nutrition programs like Meals on Wheels. The order from the Office of Management and Budget said federal agencies should pause federal “financial assistance” grants and review whether they further things like “woke gender …

Scott Jennings: “We’ve moved on from Trump derangement syndrome to Elon derangement syndrome. So, he has a long record of supporting the Jewish people, number one. Number two, anybody who is asserting this thing he did on the stage the other day was a Sieg Heil, which I just heard you say, you know, lawyer up maybe because, [it is …