Stephen Miller may have just accidentally confirmed that he, not President Donald Trump, is the one calling the shots in regard to deportation raids and National Guard deployments.

Try as he might, Vivek Ramaswamy will never be fully accepted by MAGA world.

The popular way of describing what’s going on in Washington right now is to say that on October 1, the federal government shut down as a result of Congress’s inability to pass an appropriations bill to keep it funded. Chief among the sticking points was the fact that Democrats and Republicans could not come to terms on the future of Affordable Care Act subsidies. The Republican bill did not include them; Democrats balked at signing their name to a budget that would cause skyrocketing premium costs for millions of mostly low- and middle-income Americans.

“I don’t know who told President Trump this was a good idea, but it has made people not want to vote,” Laura Loomer wrote.

“Masked federal agents aren’t welcome in our state and they can’t keep kidnapping Americans," Democratic U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum said.