By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent

A bizarre ‘choose your fighter’ video of female House Democrats has gone viral after conservatives on social media ripped it apart for being ‘cringe.’

The video was put together by influencer Sulhee Jessica Woo, who was invited to Washington this week to be on hand for President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress.

Woo, known online as the ‘Bento Box Queen,’ first posted video of herself in the boxer pose outside the Capitol Building – and had Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Lauren Underwood, Katherine Clark, Judy Chu, Jasmine Crockett and Susie Lee follow suit.

The video was labeled ‘choose your fighter’ and included positives and negatives for each woman, including that AOC was a ‘trekkie’ and Crockett was ‘not a morning person.’

The cutesy video cued groans from conservatives.

President Trump’s pick to be the next labor secretary passed a key hurdle on Thursday in the Senate.

Senators voted 66 to 30 to move forward with the confirmation of former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the Labor Department.

It signals Chavez-DeRemer is likely to sail through with bipartisan support when her confirmation comes for a final vote in the Senate.

The former congresswoman is one of the final top Trump nominees to face Senate confirmation as most of his Cabinet is already in place.

President Donald Trump is considering a shock change to the United States’ membership in NATO, which has left European allies in disbelief.

The president, since his first term, has pushed for other members of the alliance to spend 5% of their gross domestic product on defense.

Now Trump is mulling a policy shift, NBC News reported: the U.S. might not defend a fellow NATO member that is attacked if the country doesn’t meet the defense spending threshold.

Such a change would send shockwaves through Europe and would undermine the alliance’s founding principal: that when one member of the alliance is attacked, all will respond.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, said he’s heading to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for peace talks with Ukrainians.

‘The idea is to get down a framework for a peace agreement and official ceasefire,’ he told reporters at the White House.

Tuesday’s meeting will be the first time the two sides have sat down since President Trump and President Zelensky’s contentious Oval Office meeting that resulted in Zelensky being asked to leave the White House and a critical deal signing being cancelled.

Witkoff, however, left open the door for the U.S. and Ukraine to sign that deal on critical minerals next week. Trump wants access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals as payback for all the aid the U.S. has given Ukraine.

He said any decisions on resuming U.S. aid to Ukraine are President Trump’s.

‘‘President Trump is an outcome-oriented man. He wants a good outcome. A good outcome is peace, no more death, and a peaceful world,’ he said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz will accompany Witkoff to Saudia Arabia.

Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak will attend the sitdown.

President Donald Trump attended the swearing in of Todd Blanche at the White House on Thursday.

It comes the day after the Senate voted to confirm Blanche as the next Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman mocked his party’s messaging mess on the heels of President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress this week.

‘A sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance,’ Fetterman commented. ‘It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained.’

‘We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to – and it may not be the winning message,’ the Pennsylvania senator added.

Fetterman’s take comes as new polling data found that a plurality of voters, 40 percent, believed that the Democratic Party ‘doesn’t have any strategy at all for responding to Trump.’

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) filed a motion to boot all Democratic colleagues off their committees who broke decorum in the House floor on Thursday.

The moment Speaker Mike Johnson read out the resolution on the censure of Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) for protesting President Donald Trump’s joint session address, dozens of Democrats broke out in song.

As the progressive and Black Cuacus members belted out We Shall Overcome, Johnson repeatedly banged his gavel and said: ‘The House will come to order.’

Ogles immediately drafed a privilege resolution — which any member can do in order to force a vote — to “remove each of them from their committees.”

‘If you want to act like a child in the Halls of Congress, you will be treated like a child,’ Ogles said.

On Tuesday, the U.S. imposed 25 percent tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico and Canada rocketing the country into a trade war.

But Trump announced that Mexico will get a one-month exemption because the country has agreed to his conditions to halt the flow of fentanyl through the southern border.

‘After speaking with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, I have agreed that Mexico will not be required to pay Tariffs on anything that falls under the USMCA Agreement,’ he said on Truth Social.

The agreement will last until April 2 and was done ‘out of respect for’ Sheinbaum.

The gulf between Washington and allies over Donald Trump ‘s friendly stance to Russia deepened Thursday amid reports that its closest intelligence partners were discussing withholding sensitive information from their U.S. counterparts.

They fear agents or foreign assets could be compromised.

It comes after Trump called for Moscow to be readmitted to the G7 group of nations and as the U.S. paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine.

Republicans and Democrats continue debating on cable news about the measles outbreaks in the country.

Democrats continue accusing the Elon Musk and his DOGE team of endangering the health of the American people due to their cuts to the federal government, citing the measles outbreak as an example.

Republicans think it’s laughable that Democrats are trying to blame Musk and President Donald Trump for the measles.

Scott Jennings and Alencia Johnson debated the issue on CNN.

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter:

The House voted to censure Congressman Al Green in a sharp rebuke on Thursday after he was thrown out of President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress this week.

House members voted largely along party lines 224 to 198.

Ten Democrats joined their GOP colleagues to vote ‘yea’ on the resolution while two voted present.

The resolution was introduced Wednesday by GOP Congressman Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.)

It came after Green, 77, was physically removed from the House floor for interrupting Trump’s speech in a remarkable disruption to a presidential address.

But ahead of the vote, Green said despite any punishment for his actions, it would have been worth it.

Barack Obama’s post-presidency plans hit another snafu when Elon Musk’s DOGE department canceled the lease for a storage facility in Chicago holding his presidential records.

The lease is located in Hoffman Estates in the northwest of Chicago and is separate from the 9.3-acre, $830 million Obama Presidential Center in the southside, which is scheduled to open next year.

The Obama President Center seems to have been jinxed from the start as it faced lawsuits, ballooning costs and construction delays.

Additionally, the former president and wife Michelle are fighting back against rumors of divorce.

President Donald Trump is preparing a new travel ban that could potentially ban people from the Middle East from entering the United States.

Reuters reports that Trump’s requested review of security and vetting risks of foreign countries is nearly complete and to expect a new travel ban, citing three sources ‘familiar with the matter.’

Afghanistan and Pakistan are likely to make the list as well as other of the seven Muslim-majority countries featured in his first travel ban leveled in early 2017.

Former President Joe Biden repealed Trump’s ban in 2021, but new threats of terrorists traveling from the Middle East to the United States has inspired Trump to act again.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

The latest newly hired probationary federal workers hit with a wave of layoffs is the Central Intelligence Agency.

CIA officers hired within the last two years are being summoned to off-site locations, fired and forced to surrender their badges to security personnel, three people briefing on the layoffs told The New York Times.

President Donald Trump said that agencies would begin initiating their own cuts and firings inspired by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) actions over the first month of his second term.

CIA under Director John Ratcliffe wasted no time getting to work on trimming down their workforce under Trump’s orders.

The reduction in CIA workforce came after a judge cleared the way for Ratcliffe to fire employees at will.

Gavin Newsom, governor of uber-liberal California, broke ranks with fellow Democrats on Thursday morning by declaring that it was unfair that transgender athletes could take part it women’s sport.

His bold intervention will likely trigger a new reckoning on the left.

It came during the launch of his new podcast, when he sat down with Trump ally and MAGA lord Charlie Kirk, at a time when a defeated Democratic Party is trying to find its feet amid the nations culture wars.