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Minnesota Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman, who was fatally shot on Saturday with the suspect still at large, made headlines earlier this week for being the only Democratic vote in the state House to vote to repeal taxpayer-funded healthcare coverage for adult illegal immigrants.

“I know that people will be hurt by that vote and I’m – we worked very hard to try and get a budget deal that wouldn’t include that provision,” she said following the vote that she said was done in order to move the budget forward in a split legislature. Republicans hold the House 67-66, and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party holds the Senate 34-33.

Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were also shot on Saturday and are hospitalized following surgery. Hortman’s husband also died in the shooting. All four victims are presumed to have been shot by the same suspect who pretended to be a police officer.

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According to Alpha News, Hoffman voted against the proposal but Gov. Tim Walz is expected to sign it into law as part of the budget agreement. Four state senators also voted for the repeal.

Although it’s believed to be politically motivated, the specific motive is unclear as of Saturday afternoon. Minnesota State Patrol posted a photo to X on Saturday showing “No Kings” signs in the suspect’s vehicle. “No Kings” is the name of the nationwide series of protests happening on Saturday in opposition to the Trump administration.

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“Given the targeted shootings of state lawmakers overnight, we are asking the public to not attend today’s planned demonstrations across Minnesota out of an abundance of caution,” MSP wrote.

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The tragedy led to an outpouring of messages from both sides of the aisle.

“I have been briefed on the terrible shooting that took place in Minnesota, which appears to be a targeted attack against State Lawmakers,” Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday. “Our Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and the FBI, are investigating the situation, and they will be prosecuting anyone involved to the fullest extent of the law. Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America. God Bless the great people of Minnesota, a truly great place!”

Hortman was formerly the state House speaker.

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“Our state lost a great leader,” Gov. Tim Walz said at a news conference following the shootings.

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“Speaker Hortman was someone who served the people of Minnesota with grace, compassion, humor and a sense of service. She was a formidable public servant, a fixture, and a giant in Minnesota. She woke up every day determined to make this state a better place. She is irreplaceable and will be missed by so many Minnesotans,” the Democrat and former 2024 vice presidential nominee continued. 

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump‘s military parade honoring the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary is set to kick off at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the nation’s capital, but the patriotic event also is expected to face protests and gloomy weather. 

The parade will stretch down Constitution Avenue, beginning near the Lincoln Memorial and concluding near the Washington Monument at about 9:30 p.m. The parade honors the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army — which was established one year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence — and also coincides with Flag Day and Trump’s 79th birthday. 

The patriotic event is part of Trump’s “Task Force 250,” which was established in January by an executive order and coordinates plans celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence on July 4, 2026. 

The parade, however, comes as riots and protests continue in Los Angeles over the Trump administration’s immigration efforts to deport millions of illegal aliens who flooded the nation under the Biden administration, and after Israel launched preemptive strikes on Iran Thursday evening. 

The parade is also slated to face stormy weather, with forecasters predicting thunderstorms Saturday afternoon and rain going into the evening. 

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Protests in response to the military parade, and recent ICE raids being conducted in Los Angeles, are expected to unfold in cities nationwide. In Washington, visitors and locals can expect the Refuse Fascism protest, an “equity march” in downtown D.C., as well as a “Pro-Democracy Picnic” at Fort Reno Park, Fox News Digital found. 

“No Kings” protesters are anticipated to converge on cities nationwide to protest what they say is Trump leading the nation like a “king,” though there will not be a “No Kings” protests in D.C. proper on Saturday. Instead, such protests will be held in neighboring towns and cities, such as in the Virginia cities of Alexandria and Arlington. 

PROTESTERS EXPECTED TO CONVERGE ON DC, NEIGHBORING CITIES AHEAD OF TRUMP’S MILITARY PARADE

Trump was asked about the “No Kings” protest during a Thursday bill-signing event at the White House, which sparked Trump to quip he “doesn’t feel like a king.”

“I don’t feel like a king,” Trump responded. “I have to go through hell to get stuff approved. A king would say, ‘I’m not gonna get this.’ A king would have never had the California mandate to even be talking. He wouldn’t have to call up (Speaker) Mike Johnson and (Senate Majority Leader John) Thune and say, ‘Fellas you got to pull this off’ and after years we get it done,” he said, referring to three resolutions he signed Thursday ending electric vehicle mandates originating in California. “No, no we’re not a king. We’re not a king at all.”

Trump previously said that any potential violent protesters targeting the parade will be met with a “very heavy force.”

TRUMP WARNS ANY POTENTIAL PROTESTORS AT HIS MILITARY PARADE WILL BE ‘MET WITH VERY BIG FORCE’

“If there’s any protest once they come out, they will be met with very big force,” Trump told reporters Tuesday. “I haven’t even heard about a protest. But people that hate our country … they will be met with very heavy force.” 

The parade has been celebrated by the administration as the “biggest” military parade in U.S. history. 

“We love our military and take great pride in honoring our warfighters,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a statement to Fox News in May. “In celebration of 250 years of the U.S. Army, we will throw the biggest and most beautiful military parade in our nation’s history.” 

“The president is planning an historic celebration of the Army’s 250th birthday that will honor generations of selfless Americans who have risked everything for our freedom,” White House Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley added in comment to Fox Digital in May, previewing the parade. 

“Exactly 250 years ago, the first American patriots died for the cause of Independence. We owe our freedom to them and to every solider who has given their life for our nation in the 2½ centuries since.” 

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Approximately 6,600 U.S. Army soldiers will participate in the parade. The parade will also include 150 Army vehicles, including the Abrams tank and 50 aircraft, including the Black Hawk.

There will also be a flyover and a parachute jump, and historical military re-enactors. 

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The parade comes after Israel launched preemptive strikes on Iran Thursday evening following months of attempted and stalled nuclear negotiations and subsequent heightened concern Iran was advancing its nuclear program. The strikes targeted Iran’s nuclear and missile infrastructure, and killed at least four Iranian military leaders.

Iran has said the strikes were a “declaration of war.”

“Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to “make a deal.” They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!” Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday ahead of meeting with his National Security Council to discuss the strikes.

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Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman and Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.

Israel’s ongoing military campaign on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure could mark not just a military escalation but a strategic shift, according to retired Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin. 

The former head of Israeli military intelligence and one of the architects behind the legendary 1981 strike on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor said Israel should expand its sights not just military targets, but political ones. 

“Israel took the decision that, on one hand, it’s time to end the leadership of the Axis of Evil — the head of the snake,” Yadlin told Fox News Digital. “At the same time, deal with the main problems there. Which is the nuclear.”

Yadlin didn’t say how long he thought the conflict would drag on. While he didn’t openly call for regime change, Yadlin suggested the IDF take out regime targets “beyond the military level.”

“It’s not a one-day operation. It seems more like a week, two weeks. But when you start a war, even if you start it very successfully, you never know when it is finished.”

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“I hope that the achievements of the IDF, which are degrading the Iranian air defense, degrading the Iranian missile, ballistic missile capabilities, drones capabilities, and maybe even some regime targets beyond the military level that Israel started with, will convince the Iranians that it is time to stop. And then they will come to negotiation with the Trump administration much weaker.”

While Secretary of State Marco Rubio initially insisted it was not involved in the initial strikes on Tehran, President Donald Trump seemed to suggest he hoped Israel’s strikes would pressure a weaker Iran to acquiesce at the negotiating table.

The two sides are at loggerheads over the U.S.’s insistence that Iran cannot have any capacity to enrich uranium and Iran’s insistence that it must have uranium for a civil nuclear program. 

“The military operation is aimed, in my view, to a political end, and the political end is an agreement with Iran that will block a possibility to go to the border,” Yadlin said.

“We need a stronger agreement” than the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, he said. 

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Yadlin, who in 1981 flew one of the F-16s that destroyed Iraq’s nuclear facility in a single-night operation, made clear that Israel’s latest campaign is far more complex.

“This is not 1981,” he said. “Iran has learned. Their facilities are dispersed, buried in mountains, and protected by advanced air defenses. It’s not a one-night operation.”

He added, “There are sites that I’m not sure can be destroyed.”

He said the recent attack was the result of years of intelligence gathering – and brave Mossad agents on the ground in Iran. Israel lured top Iranian commanders into a bunker, where they coordinated a response to Israel’s attacks, then blew up the bunker. 

“All of the intelligence that Israel collected, from the time I was chief of intelligence 2005 to 2010, enabled this operation against the Iranian nuclear program to be very efficient, very much like the good intelligence enabled Israel to destroy Hezbollah. Unfortunately, the same intelligence agencies missed the seventh of October, 2023.” 

Indeed, Israel’s past preventive strikes — 1981’s Operation Opera and the 2007 airstrike on Syria’s suspected reactor — were rapid, surgical and designed to neutralize a singular target. In contrast, Yadlin suggested the current campaign could last weeks and involve broader goals.

“It’s not a one-day operation. It seems more like a week, two weeks. But when you start a war, even if you start it very successfully, you never know when it is finished.”

The operation is being framed by Israeli defense officials as a continuation of the Begin Doctrine, established after the 1981 Osirak strike, which declared that Israel would never allow a hostile regime in the region to obtain weapons of mass destruction.

Yadlin himself is a symbol of that doctrine. As one of the eight pilots who flew into Iraq over four decades ago, he helped define Israel’s policy of preemptive action — a legacy that is now being tested again under radically different circumstances.

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“This campaign,” Yadlin emphasized, “is unlike anything the country has done before.”

As President Donald Trump hosts events on Saturday to celebrate the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, a new national poll indicates more Americans are likely to approve than disapprove of the president’s decision to hold a military parade.

But six in 10 Americans are concerned about the cost of the parade, saying it’s “not a good use” of government money, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey.

Trump, who is marking his 79th birthday on Saturday, is scheduled to give a speech during the parade, which will take place Saturday evening along the National Mall in Washington D.C.

Defense officials say roughly 6,600 soldiers will march in the parade, with some 50 military aircraft and 150 vehicles, including tanks, rocket launchers, and missiles. The Army says it’s spending $25-$45 million to pay for the parade, which includes fixing D.C. streets damaged by the tanks.

TRUMP WARNS ANY PROTESTERS AT HIS MILITARY PARADE WILL BE ‘MET WITH VERY BIG FORCE’

Trump has defended the cost of the parade, saying last month in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that it would be “peanuts compared to the value of doing it.”

“We have the greatest missiles in the world. We have the greatest submarines in the world. We have the greatest army tanks in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world. And we’re going to celebrate it,” the president said.

TRUMP TO HOST MILITARY PARADE TO CELEBRATE ARMY’S 250TH BIRTHDAY

But some in Congress are criticizing the parade, saying the money could be better spent.

“If it was really about celebrating military families, we could put $30 million toward helping them offset the cost of their child care, food assistance and tuition,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a military veteran who lost both of her legs in combat while piloting an Army Black Hawk helicopter during the Iraq War, said in a social media post.

“But it isn’t. Trump is throwing himself a $30 million birthday parade just to stroke his own ego,” Duckworth argued.

According to the poll, 40% of adults nationwide approved of the military parade, with 29% disapproving, and three in 10 neither approving nor disapproving.

There was an expected partisan divide, with two-thirds of Republicans approving of the president’s move to hold the parade, and half of Democrats disapproving.

But in a separate question, 60% of those surveyed said holding the parade was not a good use of government funds, with 38% disagreeing.

Nearly two-thirds of Republicans said holding the parade was a good use of government funds, while eight in 10 Democrats disagreed.

The White House, in a statement, said that the parade “will be a unifying celebration for not only the thousands in attendance, but Americans across the country who can participate in honoring our active-duty servicemembers, Veterans, and fallen heroes.”

Pro-democracy, progressive, and labor activists are planning protests in all 50 states on Saturday that will coincide with Trump’s military parade. Many are part of a series of “No Kings” protests across the country, with more than 1,500 rallies scheduled for this weekend. 

But organizers decided against holding a major protest in the nation’s capital and instead will hold their main event in Philadelphia.

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The poll, which was conducted June 5-9, also indicates that 39% of those questioned approve of the job Trump’s doing in the White House, with six in ten giving the president a thumbs down.

The survey had an overall margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.

Mexico would pay for the U.S. border wall if the border were redrawn to match the 1830s, when much of the American Southwest belonged to Mexico, the country’s Senate president quipped this week.

Gerardo Fernández Noroña spoke in Spanish in Mexico about the U.S. federal immigration raids in Los Angeles, which have sparked violent riots and protests featuring demonstrators waving Mexican flags on U.S. soil.

Critics, including senior Trump advisor Stephen Miller, have branded scenes of people waving the Mexican flag as evidence Los Angeles is “occupied territory.”

In that regard, Noroña recounted telling President Donald Trump privately in New York in 2017 that Mexico would build and pay for the border wall he wants — under one condition.

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“We’ll do it according to the map of Mexico from 1830,” Noroña said, producing a cartogram. “This is what the United States was in 1830, and this was part of Mexico.

“I was at Trump Tower when President-elect Donald Trump said … I said, ‘Yes, we’ll build the wall. Yes we’ll pay for it, but we’ll do it according to the map of Mexico from 1830.”

The cession of that amount of territory would account for at least 48% of the U.S. electoral vote, a standardized measure of population density.

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The member of the left-wing Morena Party lamented that Mexico was “stripped” of about one-third of its territory via the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War.

The U.S. won that war but also suffered steep losses, including former Tennessee Rep. Davy Crockett’s last stand at the Alamo.

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The treaty established rights for people who lived in what was Mexican territory that was about to be governed only a few months later in 1849 by President Zachary Taylor, a decorated commander of that war.

“We settled there before the nation now known as the United States,” Noroña said, claiming the treaty was “not respected.”

He claimed disaffected residents of Laredo, Texas, established Nuevo Laredo on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande because they did not want to be Americans.

“With this geography, how can they talk about liberating Los Angeles — and California — the U.S. government; liberate from whom?” he said.

“[For] Mexican men and women, [that has] always been their homeland.”

The top official then claimed Angelenos do not need to know how to speak English because of the historic prevalence of Spanish there.

“This is part of the U.S., yes, and the U.S. government has the right to implement whatever immigration measures it deems appropriate. But they have no right to violate the dignity of migrants … no right to subject them to suffering, persecution and harassment.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have lambasted President Trump for the financial cost of sending troops to quell anti-ICE riots in their jurisdiction, which came with a price tag dramatically less than the bill taxpayers foot to pay for illegal immigrants in the state. 

“Just an absolutely shameful use of taxpayer dollars that could be used to actually HELP people,” Bass recently posted on X. “Despicable.”

“$134 million that should be going to LA’s fire recovery,” Newsom posted on X. “Shameful.”

Many on social media responded to the posts from Newsom and Bass and commented on how illegal immigrants cost taxpayers billions of dollars in California, including White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller. 

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“Wait till you find out how many trillions we have to spend on illegal aliens,” Miller posted on X in response to Newsom. 

“Now do the $9 billion you drained out of our state treasury to fund your free healthcare for illegals immigrants scheme,” campaign strategist Andrew Clark posted on X.

“How many billions have you spent on illegals Gavin? It’s well into the hundreds of billions,”Conservative activist and filmmaker Robby Starbuck posted on X. “THAT money should have gone to your citizens and fire recovery but you gave it to illegals.

Recent studies reviewed by Fox News Digital show that California spends at least tens of billions on illegal immigrants each year, far more than the $134 million cost of sending in federal troops to respond to rioting.

A Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) cost analysis, promoted by the House Budget Committee in a 2023 press release, found that “benefits and services provided to illegal aliens in California alone in 2022” amounted to more than $22 billion. 

In a more recent cost analysis, FAIR calculated that services for illegal immigrants cost California taxpayers $31 billion per year. 

A 2019 study from FAIR found that incarceration costs of illegal immigrants going through the court process and being housed in jail cost California over $2 billion per year. 

Earlier this year, Newsom asked for an additional $2.8 billion loan to address a bloated deficit in the state’s Medicaid program, which has surpassed budget expectations largely due to coverage for illegal immigrants.

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Last year, California expanded Medi-Cal to cover all low-income adults ages 26 through 49, regardless of immigration status, making it the first state to do so. Roughly 1.6 million illegal immigrants are enrolled in the state’s healthcare program, according to state data, and 15 million California residents are enrolled.

In addition to the amount of taxpayer dollars spent on individuals illegally in the country, a recent study by Wallethub found that California ranks nearly last in the country when it comes to return on investment for taxpayers. 

Wallethub examined state and local tax collections and then compared that with the quality of services received in education, health, safety, the economy, and infrastructure and pollution. The Golden State ranks 47th in taxpayer efficiency in the United States. 

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin fired back at California Democrats and pointed to the cost the rioters could inflict, already estimated in the millions as of Thursday, on the taxpayers in terms of property damage if not quickly quelled by federal troops. 

“Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass are conveniently ignoring the high price of mass looting, rioters destroying LA’s family businesses, public property, and setting cars and other property on fire,” McLaughlin said. 

“President Trump will not stand by while these lawless rioters loot and destroy a great American city. Newsom and Bass should be thanking President Trump for providing additional support to restore law and order and stop the destruction of LA.”

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Newsom Communications Director Izzy Gardon said there is an “irrefutable return on investment when Californians have access to education and healthcare.”

“There’s zero return for taxpayers when Trump blows $140 million of YOUR dollars to pull troops off the border and away from wildfire prep just so they can sit idle in L.A. while he cosplays as a dictator and chases Fox News headlines. This isn’t public safety — it’s a political stunt and a disgrace.”

Bass’s office directed Fox News Digital to a comment the mayor made on MSNBC.

“We are a city of immigrants,” Bass said. “We have entire industries that wouldn’t even be able to function without immigrant labor. So this is terrible to families, but it also is a very powerful blow to the local economy if this is going to continue.”

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Late Thursday, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday directing President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard to California.

The order, which takes effect at noon Friday, said the deployment of the Guard was illegal and both violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded Trump’s statutory authority.

The Trump administration appealed that decision and hours later the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the federal judge’s order.

The court said it would hold a hearing on the matter on June 17. 

Fox News Digital’s Jamie Joseph and Associated Press contributed to this report

Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz has built a reputation for his off-the-cuff comments.

The Democratic Minnesota governor made no exception during a Center for American Progress (CAP) event on Friday morning called, “What’s Next: Conversations on the Path Forward.”

Walz said China might be the voice of “moral authority” following Israel’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and military leaders. 

“Now, who is the voice in the world that can negotiate some type of agreement in this? Who holds the moral authority? Who holds the ability to do that? Because we are not seen as a neutral actor, and we maybe never were,” Walz said of the U.S.’ role in de-escalating tensions in the Middle East. 

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According to Walz, the U.S. once attempted “to be somewhat of the arbitrator” in those negotiations during the Iran Nuclear Deal, but he said Americans must face the reality that the “neutral actor” with the “moral authority” to lead negotiations in the Middle East “might be the Chinese.”

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Walz didn’t elaborate on why China would be that world leader. 

The Minnesota Democrat also admitted he is hoping for rain during President Donald Trump’s military parade. 

“I have never so hoped for rain in my life,” Walz said. 

Trump is hosting a massive Flag Day military parade on Saturday to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to gather in the nation’s capital to witness the historic parade, which also coincides with the president’s 79th birthday. 

“This is not Pyongyang on a Saturday,” Walz said, referring to the capital of North Korea, which is a communist, totalitarian dictatorship. Walz has joined many Democrats, including those planning to protest on Saturday, in criticizing Trump’s military parade by drawing comparisons to China and North Korea’s military parades. 

Trump’s military parade on Saturday comes amid escalated conflict in the Middle East, after Israel launched air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and military leaders, and Iran responded by launching missiles toward Israeli territory. 

Walz was ridiculed earlier this year for celebrating Tesla’s stock drop as protests raged on, rejecting Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 

“On the iPhone, they’ve got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day — $225 and dropping,” Walz said at the time.

Walz on Friday said that speaking out against Musk and Tesla “worked” because it started to hurt the billionaire personally. 

The Democrat, who rose to the national stage as former Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate during her brief 2024 presidential campaign, criticized Trump along his usual attack lines on Friday. 

Walz said Trump is “incompetent at governing,” and America is in a “dangerous time” under Trump’s leadership, which he said is “marching towards authoritarianism” following the chaotic incident in which authorities forcibly removed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., at a Department of Homeland Security press conference on Thursday. 

The former vice presidential candidate also said he was successful in labeling Trump “weird” during the 2024 presidential campaign. 

“I thought instead of making him a scary authoritarian wannabe who is incredibly dangerous, which I believe he is, I just thought, what a weird dude doing some of this stuff,” Walz said. 

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Walz added he “got a bunch of heat” for “inciting violence because I said we should bully the c— out of Donald Trump.“

Earlier this year, the Minnesota governor said Harris chose him as her running mate, in part, because, “I could code talk to White guys watching football, fixing their truck” and “put them at ease,” describing himself as the “permission structure” for White men from rural America to vote for Democrats. 

“I think I’ll give you pretty good stuff, but I’ll also give you 10% problematic,” he added. 

Walz laughed off criticism over inconsistencies in his background on the 2024 campaign trail, describing himself as a “knucklehead.”

President Donald Trump had a whirlwind 21st week back in the Oval Office, including securing the framework for a trade deal with China, continued handling of anti-ICE riots spiraling in Los Angeles, and putting a heightened focus on Iran after Israel launched a sweeping strike on the nation. 

Here’s what happened during his 21st week in office: 

China trade talks

Highly anticipated trade talks with China were held in London this week and led to a preliminary agreement between the world’s two biggest economic powers. 

“Our deal with China is done, subject to final approval with President Xi and me,” Trump posted to Truth Social Wednesday of framework for a trade deal. 

The Trump administration had leveled tariffs as high as 145% on Chinese goods following the president’s reciprocal tariff plans in April, when China retaliated against the U.S. with tariffs of its own. China and the U.S. reached a preliminary trade agreement in May, which Trump said China violated in a Truth Social post at the end of May.  

Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping June 5 to discuss trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing, before Trump’s team of trade leaders — including Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and United States Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer — headed to London to speak with Chinese counterparts. 

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“We made a great deal with China,” Trump celebrated from a red carpet event at the Kennedy Center Wednesday. 

“We’re very happy with it,” Trump added. “We have everything we need, and we’re going to do very well with it. And hopefully they are, too.”

Trump said the deal includes China supplying rare earth materials to the U.S., and that Trump will “work closely” with Xi “to open up China to American Trade.”

“Full magnets, and any necessary rare earths, will be supplied, up front, by China. Likewise, we will provide to China what was agreed to, including Chinese students using our colleges and universities (which has always been good with me!). We are getting a total of 55% tariffs, China is getting 10%. Relationship is excellent!” Trump said Wednesday.

Anti-ICE riots continue in LA

Trump’s week started out largely focusing on the anti-ICE riots spiraling in Los Angeles, which also led to protests in other cities nationwide in rebuke of the administration’s efforts to deport the millions of illegal immigrants who flooded the nation under President Joe Biden’s White House tenure. 

Riots broke out in L.A. after federal law enforcement officials converged on the city to carry out immigration raids. Local leaders such as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom quickly denounced the raids in public statements while offering words of support for illegal immigrants in the state.

Protests over the raids soon devolved into violence as rioters targeted federal law enforcement officials, including launching rocks at officials, looting, fires and shutting down roads and highways. 

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Trump announced June 7 that he was deploying 2,000 National Guard members to help quell the violence, and the administration deployed hundreds of Marines to respond to anti-immigration chaos Monday evening as the violence continued. 

“If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now,” Trump posted to Truth Social Tuesday morning.

California launched a lawsuit against the administration for activating the National Guard, which bypassed the governor who typically deploys the National Guard during a state of emergency. 

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer sided with Newsom and his administration’s lawsuit in a decision Thursday ordering Trump to return control of the Guard to the state “forthwith.”

A federal appeals court on Thursday, however, issued an administrative stay of the lower court’s order, handing the Trump administration a temporary win. 

“The Appeals Court ruled last night that I can use the National Guard to keep our cities, in this case Los Angeles, safe,” Trump posted to Truth Social Friday. “If I didn’t send the Military into Los Angeles, that city would be burning to the ground right now. We saved L.A. Thank you for the Decision!!!” 

Trump activated the National Guard as he and federal officials condemned rhetoric from local Democratic elected officials who publicly spoke out against federal law enforcement officials converging on Los Angeles to carry out immigration raids. 

Federal officials pinned blame for the violence on Democratic elected officials who have “villainized and demonized” ICE law enforcement, Fox Digital previously reported. 

“The violent targeting of law enforcement in Los Angeles by lawless rioters is despicable and Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom must call for it to end,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in a June 7 statement. “The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line to protect and defend the lives of American citizens.… From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi gestapo to glorifying rioters, the violent rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is beyond the pale. This violence against ICE must end.” 

Israel launches sweeping strikes on Iran 

Israel launched strikes on Iran Thursday evening, with Trump telling Fox News’ Bret Baier that there were no surprises over the attacks and that he was aware they would unfold ahead of time. 

“Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, and we are hoping to get back to the negotiating table,” Trump said Thursday. “We will see. There are several people in leadership in Iran that will not be coming back.” 

​​TRUMP SAYS ISRAEL’S NEXT IRAN ATTACK WILL BE EVEN MORE BRUTAL: ‘MAKE A DEAL’

The strikes led to the deaths of top Iranian military officials, including: Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami, Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Hossein Bagheri and Commander of Iran’s Emergency Command Gholam-Ali Rashid. 

Trump warned in a Truth Social message Friday that Israel’s next round of strikes on Iran would be “even more brutal,” encouraging Iran to make a nuclear deal amid ongoing talks with the U.S. 

“There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end,” Trump said. 

“Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”

Before Israel launched attacks on Iran, the U.S. and Iran were scheduled to hold another round of nuclear talks this weekend regarding whether Iran should have the capacity to enrich uranium. 

“The United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it,” Trump continued on Truth Social. 

“Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!”

Trump held a meeting with his National Security Council Friday to discus the strikes. 

Military parade honoring 250th anniversary 

Trump’s 21st week in office is slated to cap off with a military parade on the streets of Washington, D.C., in honor of the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, which also falls on Flag Day and Trump’s 79th birthday. 

The patriotic event is anticipated to garner protests, as critics of the president slam him over the immigration raids in Los Angeles and elsewhere, and claim he is operating like a “king.”

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“If there’s any protest once they come out, they will be met with very big force,” Trump told reporters Tuesday. “I haven’t even heard about a protest. But people that hate our country … they will be met with very heavy force.”

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Lawmakers are split over who bears responsibility for the chaos in Los Angeles after President Donald Trump federalized the National Guard for the first time in 60 years. 

Protests rejecting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations erupted in downtown LA last weekend, and the Trump administration ordered National Guardsmen and Marines to the city following days of escalating anti-ICE protests and riots. 

“The riots that we are seeing in LA are a direct reflection” of sanctuary city policies, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., told Fox News Digital. 

Republicans have largely condemned the violence in Los Angeles as Democrats accused the Trump administration of escalating tensions. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, considered a potential 2028 presidential candidate, has led the Democrats’ rejection of the Trump administration’s action in LA. 

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“We really need to have accountability for the administration that has decided to intentionally uncork this chaos,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., also rumored to harbor 2028 presidential ambitions, told Fox News Digital.

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“The Trump administration owns this,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “The Trump administration, Donald Trump and [White House advisor] Stephen Miller know that when you violently raid elementary schools, Home Depots and start ripping kids out of people’s arms, it’s going to create and stoke social chaos.”

“This administration is intentionally creating chaos,” she said. 

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., added fuel to Democrats’ fire on Thursday when he was forcibly removed and handcuffed by authorities after trying to confront Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem at a press conference in LA. Republicans once again condemned Padilla, while Democrats raged against the Trump administration. 

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital that Democrats’ anti-ICE rhetoric is “dangerous.”

“It’s going to get somebody killed,” Mace said. 

The last time a sitting U.S. president used his federal authority to deploy the National Guard without the governor’s request was during the civil rights march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. 

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., the only Palestinian American in Congress who was censured last year for her criticism of U.S. policy on the war in Gaza, said the protests are not “anti-ICE.”

“It’s not anti-ICE, it’s pro-constitutional rights, pro-due process, pro-making sure that people are following the law,” Tlaib told Fox News Digital, adding, “The immigrant communities have been saying since 2003 that ICE has been rogue, and it has not followed people’s constitutional rights.”

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Trump must return control of the California National Guard to Newsom, but an appeals court quickly reversed that decision.

The White House said the order “puts our brave federal officials in danger.” 

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“The district court has no authority to usurp the President’s authority as Commander in Chief. The President exercised his lawful authority to mobilize the National Guard to protect federal buildings and personnel in Gavin Newsom’s lawless Los Angeles,” said White House spokesperson Anna Kelly.

Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report. 

Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., is hoping for rain on Saturday during President Donald Trump’s military parade. 

During a “What’s Next: Conversations on the Path Forward” event hosted by the Center for American Progress (CAP), Walz told CEO Neera Tanden that he had never hoped for rain so much in his life. 

“I’m just going to confess to it,” Walz said. “It might get me in trouble. Whatever. I have never so hoped for rain in my life.”

Trump is hosting a massive Flag Day military parade on Saturday to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to gather in the nation’s capital to witness the historic parade, which also coincides with the president’s 79th birthday. 

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According to the FOX Forecast Center’s Risk Of Weather Impact (ROWI) assessment, there is a medium risk of inclement weather in the nation’s capital, with showers and thunderstorms expected throughout part of the evening.

And Walz is hoping for that perfect storm. 

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The Democrat, who rose to the national stage as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate during her brief 2024 presidential campaign, criticized Trump along his usual attack lines on Friday. 

Walz said Trump is “incompetent at governing,” and America is in a “dangerous time” under Trump’s leadership, which the Minnesota governor said is “marching towards authoritarianism” following the chaotic incident in which authorities forcibly removed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) press conference Thursday. 

The Democrat confirmed on Friday that he will be speaking at a “No Kings” protest in St. Paul, Minn., this Saturday during Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C. 

“Somehow this got tied to billionaires in China funding this or whatever,” Walz said Friday. “I’m like, these are like people in St. Paul that just do protests and stuff. That’s what they do. They’re feeling it, and they organized it. I think going and making that case, it is a good counter.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., grilled Walz about attending the protest during a House Oversight Committee hearing with his fellow “sanctuary governors” on Capitol Hill Thursday. 

Luna said DHS discovered that China considered Walz a “prime target for influence operations.”

“You are working with, and going to be speaking at, an organization and rally that is not just funded by Christy Walton, the heiress of Walmart, but also has ties to the Chinese Progressive Association largely funding it, that actually brags on their website that they are pro-Maoist,” Luna said. 

But Walz dismissed Luna’s allegations, doubling down that Trump’s military parade “just looks wrong, feels wrong.”

“I think I’m going to go be with a few thousand folks who kind of have the tradition that there is a separation there, that we don’t need this. This is not Pyongyang on a Saturday,” Walz said, before admitting he was hoping for rain. 

Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea, which is a communist, totalitarian dictatorship. Walz has joined many Democrats, including those planning to protest on Saturday, who have criticized Trump’s military parade, drawing comparisons to China’s and North Korea’s military parades. 

Trump’s military parade on Saturday comes amid escalated conflict in the Middle East, after Israel launched air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and military leaders, and Iran responded by launching missiles toward Israeli territory. 

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Walz was ridiculed earlier this year for celebrating Tesla’s stock drop as protests raged on, rejecting Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 

“On the iPhone, they’ve got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day — $225 and dropping,” Walz said at the time.

FOX Weather’s Raymond Sanchez contributed to this report.

While Newark Democratic Mayor Ras Baraka has blamed the Trump administration for a breakout Thursday night at a local ICE detention center, New Jersey GOP leader Kenny Gonzalez criticized Baraka and the Democratic Party, saying it has been sowing “chaos” across the country that emboldens criminal illegals and violent rioters.

“It all started a few months ago here in New Jersey, when Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested for attempting to trespass into the facility and Congresswoman LaMonica McIver assaulting an ICE agent,” Gonzalez told Fox News Digital. “This type of behavior from Democrat left-wing politicians tells the general public that it’s OK to do these kinds of things.”

Four migrants escaped from the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark Thursday evening after an apparent disturbance inside the building, a senior Homeland Security official confirmed to Fox News.

Immigration attorney Mustafa Cetin told NJ.com around 50 detainees at the facility pushed down a dormitory wall after becoming agitated when meals were delayed. 

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“It’s about the food, and some of the detainees were getting aggressive, and it turned violent,” Cetin said. 

He added that his client reported the wall was “not very strong” and described detainees hanging bedsheets in what may have been an escape attempt. The client also said he smelled gas during the incident.

To add to the chaos, at approximately 9 p.m., a group of protesters blocked an SUV from exiting an ancillary gate at Delaney Hall, forcing it to back into the facility.

PIX11 News reported that the escapees were seen running near Turnpike 78 and Delancey Street.

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The Department of Homeland Security identified the four escaped migrants on Friday as “public safety threats.” The escaped detainees have been identified as Honduran nationals Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes and Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez and Colombian nationals Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada and Andres Pineda-Mogollon.

Bautista-Reyes was previously arrested for aggravated assault and terroristic threats.

The incident comes just two days after McIver was indicted on three federal charges from a previous visit to Delaney Hall May 9. 

McIver was with Baraka and others during what was described as an oversight visit. Baraka was initially charged with trespassing, but the charge was later dropped.

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In response to the breakout, Baraka said his office was “concerned about reports of what has transpired at Delaney Hall this evening, ranging from withholding food and poor treatment, to uprising and escaped detainees.” 

Baraka criticized the federal government, saying, “This entire situation lacks sufficient oversight of every basic detail, including local zoning laws and fundamental constitutional rights.

“This is why city officials and our congressional delegation need to be allowed entry to observe and monitor and why private prisons pose a very real problem to our state and its Constitution,” he added. “We demand immediate answers and clear communication with the GEO Group and the Department of Homeland Security. We must put an end to this chaos and not allow this operation to continue unchecked.”

Gonzalez, however, said Baraka and Democratic leaders across the country should bear the blame for the breakout.

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“The far left was inspired after what they saw a few days ago in LA, and they wanted to replicate the same thing here in New Jersey, and they followed the politician’s lead,” he said. “So, this just falls into their plan to sow up chaos to distract from what the Democrat Party has been doing nationally and what they’ve done here in Jersey over the last few years.”

Gonzalez said Baraka should bear particular blame for the situation, adding, “It’s very dangerous what the mayor’s doing.”

“That statement is just so dangerous,” Gonzalez said. “To watch the videos of what went on yesterday that clearly show that unhinged protesters were interfering with the ICE agents that were on scene, showing that they were stopping transport vehicles from getting in and out of the facility. … The fact that Ras Baraka’s response is to blame it on the federal government and the state is very, very, very dangerous and shows a lack of accountability.”

With more protests planned for the weekend, Gonzalez worries Newark may still not be in the clear.

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“We just pray that it doesn’t get to the point where President Trump has to do what he did in LA by mobilizing the National Guard. We hope that we can get things under control,” Gonzalez said. “Delaney Hall is definitely going to be a target of all those protests tomorrow. And we definitely don’t want to see that.”

Gonzalez criticized Baraka and other Democratic leaders for having an ideology by which “they see the inmates as victims, and they see themselves as heroes for all of this grandstanding and obstructing that they’ve been doing.

“The good news is they are the minority, and the majority of New Jerseyans are not very happy with what’s going on,” he noted. “It’s time for Gov. [Phil] Murphy to allow law enforcement to do its job and stop what’s going on over there, because we know the mayor’s not going to do it.”

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Meanwhile, Abigail Jackson, White House spokeswoman, told Fox News Digital that “if Democrats had their way, criminal illegal aliens would always be roaming the streets of every American community.” 

“The Trump Administration is committed to doing everything possible to Make America Safe Again, and DHS has brought in additional law enforcement partners to locate the escapees,” she said. 

Baraka’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment by publication time.

Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr and Jennifer Johnson contributed to this report.

A federal judge in Maryland on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump lacked the authority to fire three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and ordered their reinstatement — teeing up another high-stakes court clash centered on Trump’s ability as commander-in-chief to remove or otherwise control the members of independent agencies.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Maddox, a Biden appointee, sided with the three ousted members of the board — Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric and Richard Trumka Jr. — in ruling that their firings were unlawful and ordered all three members to be reinstated to their posts.

In his ruling, Maddox said that the tenured design and protection of the five-member, staggered-term CPSC board does “not interfere with” Trump’s executive branch powers under Article II of the U.S. Constitution.

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The decision is a near-term blow for Trump, and comes just weeks after the Supreme Court last month agreed to uphold, for now, Trump’s removal of two Democratic appointees from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Merit Systems Protections Board (MSPB). 

Both board members had challenged their terminations as “unlawful” in separate lawsuits filed in D.C. federal court. The Supreme Court voted 6-3 in May to temporarily allow the firing of both board members, siding with lawyers for the Trump administration, who had urged the justices to keep both members on the job while the case continued to move through the lower courts.

In his ruling, Maddox sought to distinguish those cases from the terminations of members of the CPSC board and said that the Trump administration, in this case, had failed to identify neglect or malfeasance by any other Senate-confirmed commissioners on the CPSC, which is required by law to justify their removals. 

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“For the reasons set forth below, the Court finds no constitutional defect in the statutory restriction on Plaintiffs’ removal and that Plaintiffs’ purported removal from office was unlawful,” he said in the order.

“The Court shall enter an Order granting Plaintiffs’ motion, denying Defendants’ motion, and providing declaratory and injunctive relief permitting Plaintiffs to resume their duties as CPSC Commissioners.”

The decision clears the way for the members to return to their roles on the board, pending an appeal to higher courts by the Trump administration. 

The case is the latest in a string of challenges centered on Trump’s ability to remove members of independent boards. Like the NLRB and MSPB rulings, it centers on the 90-year-old Supreme Court decision known as Humphrey’s Executor, in which the court unanimously ruled that presidents cannot fire independent board members without cause.

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Maddox invoked the uncertainty created by the preliminary posture of the NLRB and MSPB cases, which saw both plaintiffs removed and reinstated to their positions multiple times — which he said was the basis for ordering more permanent injunctive relief.

“Disruption might have resulted in the instant case if Plaintiffs had been reinstated while this case was in its preliminary posture, only to have the Court later deny relief in its final judgment and subject Plaintiffs to removal again,” said Maddox. “The risk of such disruption is no longer a factor now that the Court is granting permanent injunctive relief as a final judgment.” 

Lawmakers and mainstream media figures were blasted online Friday morning over some of their responses to the development that Israel executed a widespread bombing campaign against key Iranian targets.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-CT., wrote on X that Israel’s attack was “clearly intended to scuttle the Trump administration’s negotiations with Tehran,” and is “further evidence of how little respect world powers – including our own allies – have for President Trump.”

Murphy, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe, was later mocked for using the situation to slam Trump:

“Do you think Israel respected Biden, Obama, or Bush? Now is not the time for a partisan bromide,” one critic replied.

“You think Kamala could’ve stopped them?” riffed another.

Former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner, D-Cleveland, an occasional media figure and former campaign staffer for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., replied to Murphy’s critics, saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “always wanted a broader war.” 

“This was inevitable, given the U.S. foreign policy towards Israel. Arms embargo now,” Turner added.

Left-wing former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann informed Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on X that “your soul is lost” after the lawmaker celebrated Iran being attacked.

“Game on, pray for Israel,” Graham originally wrote.

The oft-profane pundit did, however, receive some backhanded support from the right for the remarks, with one respondent saying, “you know society is about to collapse when I agree with Keith” – while another shared a “holy s—” meme featuring actor Keegan Michael Key. 

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who has become one of President Donald Trump’s loudest critics, went after Trump’s supporters following the bombings.

“Yesterday: Trump scared to death of action against Iran.”

On X, several pro-Trump ripped Kinzinger, saying he “lives in a bottle,” “was too scared to run for reelection” in his swing Kankakee district because of his break with Trump, and should “cry harder.”

Kinzinger, however, did appear to celebrate Israel’s killing of Iranian military commander Hossein Salami — sharing a grinning GIF of the late Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain in response to a news alert.

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Several “Squad” members also got in on the action Friday, including Rep. Gregorio Casar of Texas.

Casar said Netanyahu’s “reckless strike risks provoking a wider war and pulling in the United States.”

He called on Trump to oppose Netanyahu’s escalation and “not violate the Constitution” by involving U.S. troops without congressional approval.

Reaction to Casar was mixed, with some respondents asking what his own strategy would be, while one defender of the Austin lawmaker shared a meme of Trump dressed as a chambermaid standing aside Netanyahu in his office.

Meanwhile, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., actively sparred with critics of her statement that “regardless of what Trump thinks, Israel knows America will do whatever they want and feels confident about their ability to get into war and have the American government back them up.”

“Everyone in America should prepare themselves to either see their tax dollars being spent on weapon supplies to Israel or be dragged into war with Iran if this escalates.”

“Somalians belong in Somalia,” one critic responded. “And in Congress,” Omar shot back.

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When another critic said she should focus more on issues in her Minneapolis district, the congresswoman replied, “I am focusing on my district and we don’t believe our tax dollars should go to war. Thank for your input.”

“This is all planned,” tweeted “Squad” colleague Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

“Both [U.S. and Israel] are liars.”

Tlaib then claimed Jerusalem’s government is “genocidal” and that “war criminal Netanyahu will do anything to maintain his grip on power.”

“Squad” member Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., followed by tweeting support for her “Block the Bombs Act” to withhold weapons sales to Israel in response to actions in Gaza.

The far-left lawmaker, who took over longtime moderate Democrat Dan Lipinski’s district, said that Netanyahu “cannot be trusted with offensive weapons that enable dangerous actions like what we saw last night.”

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Elsewhere on social media, other liberal figures were raging at the Trump administration for other recent developments, like the brief detainment of Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., after he crashed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Los Angeles press conference.

Col. Alexander Vindman, now retired, but a key figure in the Trump-Ukraine impeachment saga and a twin brother of Rep. Yevgeny “Eugene” Vindman, D-Va., railed against Noem multiple times, calling her a “fascist b—h.”

“Hey Kristi, f— off,” Vindman wrote.

Frequent “Special Report” All-Star panelist Mollie Hemingway responded to Vindman, remarking on how the mainstream media regularly characterized him as a “stable,” nonpartisan whistleblower.

Democratic lawmakers are sounding off on the Israel-Iran conflict, criticizing Israel’s initial airstrikes Thursday night in the capital of Tehran.

Israel launched “Operation Rising Lion,” targeting Iran’s nuclear and missile infrastructure, and Iran responded with strikes in Tel Aviv, injuring at least five people.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released a statement Friday calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an “extremist.”

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“The world is more dangerous and unstable as a result of the extremist Netanyahu’s government ongoing defiance of international law,” Sanders wrote. “First, he uses the starvation of children in Gaza as a tool of war, a barbaric violation of the Geneva Conventions. Now, his illegal unilateral attack on Iran risks a full-blown regional war.”

Sanders added the strikes “directly contravened” U.S. interests in resolving long-standing tensions over Iran’s nuclear program. 

“Talks were planned for Sunday, but Netanyahu chose instead to launch an attack,” Sanders wrote. “The U.S. must make it clear that we will not be dragged into another Netanyahu war. Along with the international community we should do everything possible to prevent an escalation of this conflict and bring the warring parties to the negotiating table.”

Senate Foreign Relations member Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., chimed in on social media Friday morning.

“Netanyahu wasn’t trying to help diplomacy; he was trying to destroy diplomacy,” Murphy wrote. “How do we know? They reportedly targeted and killed Iran’s chief negotiator with Trump.”

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Tim Kaine, D-Va., who also serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, added he could not understand why Israel would launch a preemptive strike when a meeting was scheduled between the U.S. and Iran this weekend.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said military aggression is “never the answer.”

“Israel’s alarming decision to launch airstrikes on Iran is a reckless escalation that risks igniting regional violence,” Reed wrote. “These strikes threaten not only the lives of innocent civilians but the stability of the entire Middle East and the safety of American citizens and forces. While tensions between Israel and Iran are real and complex, military aggression of this scale is never the answer.”

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By Friday afternoon, some Democrats seemingly changed their tune in response to the counter-attack.

Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., slammed Iran’s response, calling it “cowardice.”

“#Israel’s strike on #Iran was targeted precisely at senior Iranian military commanders and military sites that posed an existential threat to Israel,” Sherman wrote. “The Islamic Republic’s response? To target civilian centers in #TelAviv. Unsurprising cowardice from a regime that has spent decades brutalizing its own people.”

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Others evaded the conversation all together.

“This is a rapidly evolving situation, and it’s critical that the United States works with our allies and avoid steps that will cause further escalation across the region,” Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., wrote in a statement. “For years, Iran has threatened the safety of Israel and the region, and Israel has an undeniable right to defend itself and its citizens.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is getting roasted for his response Thursday to South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace’s question during a House Oversight Committee hearing where several of the country’s governors testified. 

“What is a woman?” Mace asked Walz after several minutes of the two officials going back and forth over various topics. Mace peppered Walz with questions about comparing immigration officials to the Gestapo, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, his time in China in the late 1980s, his time in the military, school shooters and other topics.

Walz paused to gather himself before responding.

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“I’m not sure I understand the question here,” Walz told Mace. “What do you want me to say?”

Mace then ripped into Walz. 

“I want you to say that a woman like me is an adult human female. That men can’t become women,” Mace shot back. “You guys are the party of violence, and you’re the party erasing women. You don’t respect us. You’re a bigot. You’re a misogynist. You’re a sexist. Mr. Chairman, I yield back.”

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Walz attempted to respond, but the Republican chairman of the committee moved on to the next questioner as Walz laughed off the question.

“Tampon Tim Walz couldn’t define a woman today in GOP Oversight when I had him in the pressure cooker,” Mace said on social media with a video of the exchange. “He was speechless.

“Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who just allowed a boy to win a girl’s state title in his state and was supposed to win male voters for Kamala, is asked by Nancy Mace what a woman is, he says he doesn’t understand the question,” Clay Travis, commentator and founder of Outkick, said on X.

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“Governor Walz has failed Minnesota. During yesterday’s testimony, he refused to take accountability, wouldn’t apologize for calling law enforcement agents the “gestapo,” and couldn’t even tell us what a woman was,” Kendall Qualls, a Republican running against Walz for governor, added on X.

After nearly six hours of testimony Friday, accused human trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia is no closer to learning whether he can be released from custody pending his federal trial in Nashville.

The pretrial hearing began with Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 member charged with the trafficking of undocumented migrants and conspiring with others to do so, pleading not guilty.

Garcia’s legal team told U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes Friday it had time to review the indictment and that Garcia understood what he is accused of before he formally entered the plea, which stems from a 2022 traffic stop.

The federal criminal case against Abrego Garcia comes after a high-profile, protracted legal fight over his deportation and the Trump administration’s efforts to delay his return to the U.S., even after the Supreme Court ordered the administration to “facilitate” his release.

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Abrego Garcia sat silently during the proceedings, wearing a red jumpsuit with an orange undershirt, his gaze mostly concentrated on the prosecution and a window in the courtroom. Abrego Garcia’s mother, brother and wife were present in court, as were members of the nonprofit Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), which was helping with some translations for the family and providing moral support. 

During the hearing, the prosecution brought forward Special Agent Peter Joseph, who told prosecutors he was first assigned to Abrego Garcia’s case in April 2025, when Abrego Garcia was still detained in El Salvador.

Since then, Joseph said, he has reviewed footage from Abrego Garcia’s 2022 traffic stop, which has emerged as the basis of the human smuggling charges.

At the time, Joseph told prosecutors, Abrego Garcia had been driving a vehicle with nine passengers and was pulled over while traveling from St. Louis to Maryland with an expired license.

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Six of the nine passengers in the vehicle have since been identified as being in the country illegally, Joseph said, adding one passenger in the van told officers he was born in 2007, which would have made him just 15 at the time.

Joseph said that, based on evidence, Abrego Garcia was paid $1,000 per trip and that he would transport 50 people per month.

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In addition to the smuggling, Joseph alleged Abrego Garcia also engaged in inappropriate conduct with underage girls he was transporting, including a 15-year-old allegedly asked by Abrego Garcia to send him nude photos.

During the defense’s cross-examination, however, it was noted that Joseph was not present for some of the interviews with female sources, which led the defense to claim his testimony was based on hearsay and should be thrown out. 

Holmes, however, allowed all the testimony, without striking anything. 

Acting U.S. Attorney Robert McGuire also discussed two protective orders filed by Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, in 2020 and 2021, in which she described him as abusive and domineering. 

McGuire argued in favor of Abrego Garcia remaining detained pending trial, saying he poses a flight risk and a danger to the public based on what he called a commonsense view of the highway patrol traffic stop and the evidence presented in court of there being serious concerns about the transportation of minors.

However, Will Allensworth, a federal public defender representing Abrego Garcia, argued the testimony was disorganized and that it is unclear how much of it was based on hearsay. He claimed there should be no concern about Abrego Garcia being a flight risk because he would go straight into ICE custody. 

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Another public defender, Dumaka Shabazz, argued the charge being leveled is not a crime of terrorism, which he said clearly supports his release. Shabazz also said Abrego Garcia has experienced trauma and depression due to his deportation, has strong ties to the community and all of his loved ones are in the U.S., so he has no incentive to flee.

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Holmes did not set a date for the next court hearing but said it will be determined soon.

Fox News Digital’s Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.

Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content. Here’s what’s happening…

• Returned Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia arraigned on federal human trafficking charges in Tennessee
• Global calls to avoid escalation pour in after Israeli strikes on Iran
• Heading to Trump’s military parade? Here’s everything you need to know

Trump to Tehran on a Nuclear Deal: ‘Just Do It’

President Donald Trump promised that Israel’s next round of attacks on Iran would be “even more brutal” in a Truth Social post pressuring Iran to cut a deal on its nuclear activity. 

“There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end,” Trump said. 

“Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”…READ MORE.

White House

‘WILDLY INAPPROPRIATE’: Padilla cuffed, McIver indicted: Can Congress come back from the brink?

CASHING IN: Democrats cash in after Padilla forcibly removed from Trump admin press conference

STORY OVER: Appeals court deals Trump blow in challenge to E. Jean Carroll verdict

NO ‘SPECIFIC POWERS’: Second federal judge sides against Trump’s election executive order

PARTY IN CHAOS: Democrats forge strange bedfellows as party flounders in Trump’s second term

Iran Airstrikes

ATOMIC DEFIANCE: Iran claims right to nuclear prowess following Israel strikes, but remains silent on negotiations with US

ON THE BRINK: How close was Iran to a nuclear weapon before Israel’s strike on Tehran?

WALZ OF CHINA: Tim Walz floats China as ‘neutral actor’ with ‘moral authority’ to negotiate Middle East peace

SHIELDS UP: NYPD ramps up security at Jewish sites across NYC after Israeli strikes on Iran

ALL IN: Fetterman calls for US to supply anything Israel needs for Iran attack: ‘Military, intelligence, weaponry’

SHADOW WARFARE: Inside Israel’s secret war in Iran: Mossad commandos, hidden drones, and the strike that stunned Tehran

‘DEEPLY CONCERNING’: IAEA chief calls Israeli president, reportedly says nuclear facility was severely damaged

RISING AGAINST TEHRAN: Israel releases video of strike on Iranian ballistic missiles aimed at Jewish state

IRAN’S REVENGE PLOT: Could the US be targeted as Iran retaliates against Israel?

TAKING HEAT: ‘War criminal Netanyahu’: Squad members erupt over Israel’s ‘reckless’ strike on Iran

Anti-ICE Riots

BLAME GAME: SCOOP: Comer probing Newsom, Bass response to Los Angeles riots

CALI CHAOS: California candidate for governor blasts Newsom while walking through LA riot aftermath

HIRED GUNS: Anti-ICE riot funding investigated as ‘numerous high budget requests’ for paid agitators reported

CHAOS IN THE STREETS: Protesters hauled away as anti-ICE protests continue in Los Angeles despite mayor’s curfew order

Capitol Hill

FUNDS UNDER FIRE: Marjorie Taylor Greene launches probe into Planned Parenthood’s use of taxpayer funds

SENATE SHAKEN: Senate shaken: Bipartisan worry erupts after incident involving California Democrat

‘NOT A FAN’: Ron Johnson is ‘trying to force reality’ on DC, and believes COVID-19 jabs should have ‘black box warnings’

Across America 

MANHUNT UNDERWAY: 4 migrants escape from Newark ICE detention facility, DHS official confirms

MASSIVE SWING: Immigrants abandon Dems to support GOP immigration policies in dramatic polling shift

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A new national poll indicates that Americans are divided over President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and U.S. Marines to the nation’s second most populous city.

Aiming to extinguish escalating protests in Los Angeles sparked by immigration raids carried out by ICE at his administration’s direction, Trump sent in National Guard troops and even mobilized Marines. The unrest and the moves by the president have dominated national headlines for a week.

Forty-one percent of adults nationwide questioned in a Washington Post/George Mason University Schar School poll said they support the president’s move, with 44% opposed and 15% unsure.

The survey was conducted on Tuesday and questioned over 1,000 adults nationwide, including roughly 200 in blue-state California.

FIRST ON FOX: IMMIGRANT VOTERS ABANDON DEMOCRATS ON IMMIGRATION ISSUE

Support for the president’s actions among the California respondents stood at 32%, with 58% opposed.

The poll also highlighted an expected massive partisan divide.

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Eight-six percent of Republicans surveyed supported the president’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines to the streets of LA, with more than three-quarters of Democrats giving a thumbs down on Trump’s move.

A third of independents approved of the sending of the troops, with nearly half opposed and nearly one in five unsure.

Trump took control of California’s National Guard without the permission of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, the first time in 60 years that a president has federalized National Guard troops without a governor’s request.

Newsom, leading the resistance to Trump’s moves, took legal action to try and reverse the order.

TRUMP DEPLOYMENT OF TROOPS TO QUELL LA RIOTERS LATEST PAGE IN PRESIDENT’S POLITICAL PLAYBOOK

A federal district court judge this week ruled that Trump’s moves were illegal and ordered him to return control of the National Guard troops to Newsom. But a federal appeals court quickly temporarily blocked the lower court judge’s ruling.

The survey also indicates Americans are divided over whether they support (39%) or oppose (40%) the protests. Just over one in five (21%) were unsure of their support or opposition.

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Seventy percent of Democrats — but just 39% of independents and only 6% of Republicans — support the aims of the protesters.

According to the poll, Americans are also divided over whether the protests have been mostly peaceful (35%) or mostly violent (37%).

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called for the president to go “all-in” for Israel should a diplomatic end to the conflict with Iran not be met.

Earlier in the day, President Donald Trump called on Iranian leaders to return to the negotiating table to strike a nuclear deal to avoid “even more brutal” attacks.

Graham lauded Trump’s desire to bring Iran back to the table but countered that “if Iran refuses this offer, I strongly believe it is in America’s national security interest to go all-in to help Israel finish the job.”

“One of the benefits of this approach is that it would substantially undo the damage done to our reputation by Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Graham said on X. 

“If diplomacy fails, going all-in for Israel shows that America is back as a reliable ally and a strong force against oppression. It would strengthen our hand in all corners of the world, as well as all other conflicts we face.”

FETTERMAN CALLS FOR US TO SUPPLY ANYTHING ISRAEL NEEDS FOR IRAN ATTACK: ‘MILITARY, INTELLIGENCE, WEAPONRY’

His zeal to support the Jewish State came before Fox News reported that two U.S. Navy Destroyers, the USS Sullivans and USS Arleigh Burke, were assisting Israel to shoot down incoming missile volleys from Iran.

However, other pro-Israel lawmakers were not ready to see American troops deployed in the region and believed Trump would be the key to preventing any action from the U.S.

ISRAEL LAUNCHES ‘OPERATION RISING LION’ ON IRAN, TARGETING NUCLEAR FACILITIES, TEHRAN

“I can’t imagine a world in which that happens,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital. “I’d be opposed to that. The president is adamantly opposed to that. I trust President Trump here to keep our troops and other personnel safe in the region.”

Hawley said Trump “has offered Iran an off-ramp here for a long time” through the nuclear agreement negotiation and noted the president again offered an out.

MCCAUL SAYS ISRAEL STRIKES ARE ‘PERFECT OPPORTUNITY’ FOR IRANIANS TO OVERTHROW ISLAMIC REGIME

“You know, they ought to take that off-ramp,” he said.  

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Jim Risch, R-Idaho, told Fox News Digital in a statement that “no one hates to see U.S. troops put at risk more than our president.”

“President Trump has worked tirelessly to end wars and stop killing. And, in this case, I know he will continue to do all he can to keep U.S. troops out of harm’s way as the war between Israel and Iran unfolds,” he said.

Israel’s strike on Iran was intended to take out the country’s nuclear enrichment program and carry out targeted attacks on a number of top Iranian officials.

Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., said the strike was “warranted” given Iran’s years of aggression against Israel, but he agreed with the president that negotiations needed to resume.

“A regime that chants ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’ can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon,” he said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Israel has every right to defend itself, and America stands with Israel.”

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But others, like Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., accused Trump of killing the Iran nuclear agreement and contended that the end of negotiations “accelerated Iran’s development towards a bomb.”

Still, he hoped a deal could be made to prevent further “escalation in the region that could endanger American citizens, troops and our interests.”

“As we support Israel in protecting their people from Iran’s response, everyone needs to be focused on de-escalation,” Kelly said in a statement.

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.

The Department of Homeland Security has revealed the identities of the four migrants who escaped a Newark ICE facility on Thursday night, identifying all four as “public safety threats” who are still at large.

The agency is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the four migrants who broke out of Delaney Hall, a privately run ICE detention facility on Thursday night, amid chaotic scenes both inside and outside the facility.

According to DHS, “the four criminal illegal aliens currently evading federal law enforcement are public safety threats.”

DHS identified the four escaped migrants as Honduran illegals Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes and Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez and Colombian illegals Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada and Andres Pineda-Mogollon, each of whom has previously been arrested for felony offenses including aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a handgun and terroristic threats.

RETURNED SALVADORAN MIGRANT KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA ARRAIGNED ON FEDERAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING CHARGES IN TENNESSEE

Bautista-Reyes illegally entered the U.S. in 2021 under the Biden administration and was arrested by the Wayne Township, New Jersey, Police Department on May 3 for aggravated assault, attempt to cause bodily injury, terroristic threats, and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes.

Sandoval-Lopez illegally entered the U.S. as a minor in 2019 and was arrested by the Passaic Police Department in October for unlawful possession of a handgun and again on February 15 for aggravated assault.

Castaneda-Lozada entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and was arrested by the Hammonton Police Department on May 15 for burglary, theft and conspiracy to commit burglary.

Pineda-Mogollon entered the U.S. in 2023 and overstayed his tourist visa. He was arrested by the New York City Police Department on April 25 for larceny and again on May 21 by the Union, New Jersey, Police Department for residential burglary, conspiracy to commit residential burglary and possession of burglary tools.

ICE OFFICERS ASSAULTED DURING RAID THAT NABBED 70 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AT MEAT PLANT: DHS

Immigration attorney Mustafa Cetin told NJ.com that around 50 detainees at the private facility pushed down a dormitory wall after becoming agitated when meals were delayed. 

“It’s about the food, and some of the detainees were getting aggressive and it turned violent,” Cetin said. 

He added that his client reported the wall was “not very strong” and described detainees hanging bedsheets in what may have been an escape attempt. The client also said he smelled gas during the incident.

By 6 p.m., dozens of officers from the Essex County Sheriff’s Office and Newark Police were present, according to Rutgers University-Newark professor Whitney Strub, who posted images of the police presence and said he and others outside the jail “were all coughing at the same time,” after being exposed to what they believed was “some kind of gas,” NJ.com reported.

DEMOCRAT ACCUSES TRUMP OF UNLEASHING ‘CAMPAIGN OF TERROR’ ON ILLEGALS AS LA RIOTS RAGE

At approximately 9 p.m., a group of protesters blocked an SUV from exiting an ancillary gate at Delaney Hall, forcing it to back into the facility.

PIX11 News reported that the escapees were seen running near Turnpike 78 and Delancey Street.

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DHS contested reporting that there had been widespread unrest at the facility, saying “this privately held facility remains dedicated to providing high-quality services, including around-the-clock access to medical care, in-person and virtual legal and family visitation, general and legal library access, translation services, dietician-approved meals, religious and specialty diets, recreational amenities, and opportunities to practice their religious beliefs.”

In a Friday statement, a senior DHS official said that “DHS has become aware of four detainees at the privately held Delaney Hall Detention Facility escaping” and that “additional law enforcement partners have been brought in to find these escapees and a BOLO has been disseminated.”

The senior official encouraged the public to call emergency services or the ICE tip line with any relevant information on the four escapees.  

Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr and Jennifer Johnson contributed to this report.