Rachel Maddow

Trump is demanding all these cuts to science, and Congress is saying no, and this is a bipartisan thing.

This started in the Senate as a bipartisan agreement.

Last week, the House voted for it as well.

I know it's like muscle memory to assume, A, that Congress does nothing, and B, if they ever defy that rule and do something, it's always something bad.

But that is...

changing a little bit here, and it's changing all against Trump.

And Republicans in the House are down to such a slim margin there now that if every Democrat is present at the moment, Republicans can only afford one defection on any given vote.

They can only give up one Republican vote in the House and still pass things that their leadership supports.

And they know they're going to get walloped in the midterms.

And with moderate Democrat Mary Paltola announcing today that she's going to run against the unpopular Republican Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan, that means that Democrats are getting pretty close to a shot at taking over the Senate in the midterms as well.

They've got a shot at taking over the Senate in addition to the near certainty that they will take over the House.

We've got the courts pushing back harder and harder and now apparently losing that sense of shock they had that the administration really is just blatantly breaking the law all the time.

The courts are finally getting it and pushing back and seeming to understand what it is they're up against.

We've got the Congress, believe it or not, in some ways pushing back.

While simultaneously Republicans are losing any hope of hanging onto power in Congress, it looks like the Democrats will be taking over.

Today, Democratic U.S.

Senator Mark Kelly brought a new kind of fight against the Trump administration.

He brought a high-powered lawsuit against Trump and against Pete Hegseth and the rando art collector fundraiser guy who Trump inexplicably named to be Navy secretary.

Trump, Senator Kelly is suing to block

Their efforts to reduce him in rank and dock his retirement pay for the grave crime of saying out loud the true statement that U.S.