Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., said this morning that Republicans in Congress need to start “being less pathetic” in raising the alarm over Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency group and “standing up for their constituents, for the country and for the Constitution.”

“They have turned the entire government over to the cult of personality that is Donald Trump and to some extent, Elon Musk. They have completely abdicated any responsibility because they are deathly afraid of saying anything that Donald Trump doesn't want to hear,” Smith told MSNBC. “They need to change that.”

Several House Republicans plan to press Trump about DOGE's cuts at a meeting today, according to Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga. McCormick, who along with some other House Republicans has faced criticism from constituents over the cuts, told NBC News that his biggest concern is that the Trump administration was not being “compassionate” in its firing of federal workers.

Smith said he was glad McCormick “put out that mild little statement,” but urged Republicans to do more.

“They need to stand up for representative democracy and say, ‘No, Donald Trump is not a king,’” Smith said. “If we don’t agree with things that Trump doing, we need to say it and push back against it.”

Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters, a Republican, introduced a bill in the Legislature yesterday that would require state agencies to update geographic materials used in schools to reflect the president's decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."

The bill would require district school boards and charter schools to acquire new materials that recognize the new name. Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his new term making the name change, which has been rejected by Mexico’s government.

Gruters, a longtime Trump ally, was elected treasurer of the Republican National Committee in January after receiving Trump's endorsement.

The Department of Veterans Affairs said it fired another 1,400 probationary employees last night after dismissing more than 1,000 others earlier this month.

In a statement, the agency said it continues to hire for more than 300,000 "mission-critical" positions that are exempt from the federal hiring freeze, which includes Veterans Crisis Line responders.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., criticized the terminations during a joint House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees hearing today.

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Gerry Connolly, of Virginia, said he is looking into acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin for potential abuse of public office.

In a letter to Martin today, Connolly raised concerns about several actions Martin has taken since becoming the top prosecutor in D.C. In particular, Connolly said he was "deeply concerned" that Martin's efforts to investigate comments from Democratic members of Congress "may violate the First Amendment and chill legitimate political expression."

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., appeared to take a jab this morning at the Trump administration's decision to oppose a United Nations resolution backed by Ukraine and other European allies.

The U.S. instead sided with Russia and North Korea, among other countries, on the vote. The resolution called for Russia's withdrawal from Ukraine's internationally recognized borders.

The Supreme Court threw out Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction this morning because a key witness lied in court and prosecutors withheld information about him.

The decision, a rare victory for a death row inmate at the conservative court, means prosecutors now have to decide whether to put Glossip on trial again. The court was divided 5-3 on throwing out Glossip’s conviction, with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch not participating.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the court, said the prosecution “violated its constitutional obligation to correct false testimony.” As a result, “Glossip is entitled to a new trial,” she wrote.

Glossip, 62, was convicted of arranging the murder in 1997 of his boss at the Oklahoma City motel where they worked. He has been on death row since 1998 and has faced imminent execution on several occasions.

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Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., pushed back on some of DOGE's efforts to slash the federal workforce and government spending, calling some of the group's moves "rash" in an interview with CNN.

"We need to do this with a scalpel, I've said this repeatedly, not a sledgehammer," she said in the interview. "Some of the rash decisions that I've seen coming out of DOGE — which I do support finding efficiencies."

More than 230,000 Canadians have signed a parliamentary petition calling on the prime minister to revoke Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship for his role as a senior adviser to Trump, who has said he would like to make Canada “the 51st state” of the United States.

The petition, launched by British Columbia author Qualia Reed and sponsored by New Democrat parliamentary member Charlie Angus, claims Musk has “engaged in activities that go against the national interest of Canada” and has “become a member of a foreign government that is attempting to erase Canadian sovereignty.”

Musk was born in South Africa but has Canadian citizenship through his mother, who is from Saskatchewan’s capital, Regina.

The petition is set to close for signatures June 20.

The Trump administration is pausing work on tents to house migrants at the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay as it considers scaling back its plans for the naval base amid its crackdown on illegal immigration, according to two U.S. officials.

The tents do not have electricity or air conditioning and aren’t currently up to Immigration and Customs Enforcement standards, the officials said. The military has not taken them down and is waiting on policy guidance on whether migrants will ever be housed in them.

“As this mission evolves, DoD will continue to work with DHS to evaluate requirements and the scope of illegal alien holding operations, and improve facilities,” a defense official said.