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Vice President JD Vance said Saturday he was confronted by pro-Ukrainian protesters while he was out walking with his 3-year-old daughter. 

“Today while walking my 3 year old daughter a group of ‘Slava Ukraini’ protesters followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared,” Vance posted Saturday afternoon on X. 

“I decided to speak with the protesters in the hopes that I could trade a few minutes of conversation for them leaving my toddler alone,” he continued. “Nearly all of them agreed.” 

Vance said it was a “mostly respectful conversation, but if you’re chasing a 3-year-old as part of a political protest, you’re a s— person.” 

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Vice President JD Vance said Saturday he was confronted by pro-Ukrainian protesters while he was out walking with his 3-year-old daughter.  (Drew Hallowell/Getty Images)

“Slava Ukraini” is a battle cry for the Ukrainian armed forces, meaning “Glory to Ukraine.” 

While the vice president didn’t specify what he talked to the protesters about, the Trump administration has cut off funding in the last week for Ukraine and stopped intelligence sharing with the country after a tense Oval Office exchange between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump and Vance. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to the vice president’s office for comment.

Tensions rose during the Oval Office meeting Feb. 28 over a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine after Zelenskyy said Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t be trusted and had breached other agreements.

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Trump and Vance then accused Zelenskyy of not being grateful for the support the U.S. has provided over the years and said the Ukrainian leader was in a “bad position” at the negotiating table. 

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance held a tense Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Feb. 28.  (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“You’re playing cards,” Trump said. “You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with World War III. You’re gambling with World War III. And what you’re doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country.”

After Vance told Zelenskyy Ukraine had manpower and military recruiting problems, Zelenskyy said war means “everybody has problems, even you,” adding the U.S. would feel the war “in the future.”

“Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel,” Trump responded. “We’re trying to solve a problem. Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel.”

Vice President JD Vance with his two young children.  (Ian Langsdon/AFp via Getty Images)

Zelenskyy was asked to leave the White House after the exchange, a scheduled news conference was canceled and a deal for Ukraine to give the U.S. its rare earth minerals was left unsigned. 

The White House has said Zelenskyy must publicly apologize for the Oval Office meeting or the minerals deal won’t be considered. 

On Tuesday, Zelenskyy called the meeting “regrettable” and said he is ready to pursue peace with Trump’s help. 

Vance was also met by protesters last weekend, when his family went on a ski vacation in Vermont a day after the Feb. 28 exchange. 

Pro-Ukrainian protesters demonstrated against Vance in Vermont after his tense meeting with Zelenskyy.  (John Lazenby/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The protesters called him a “traitor” and told him to “go ski in Russia.” 

Liberal commentator Tim Miller criticized Vance over his X post Saturday, writing, “Dozens are dead in Ukraine because you stopped giving them the intelligence that protected the country from bombs so you can probably handle some yelling in a free country boss.” 

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On Friday, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he was considering “large-scale” sanctions on Russia “until a ceasefire and final settlement agreement on peace is reached.”

 “Get to the table right now, before it is too late,” he wrote of Russia and Ukraine.

Seattle’s Democratic mayor this week proposed a city ordinance that would strengthen protections for those seeking transgender care and surgeries, while calling out the Trump administration’s “hateful, dangerous and discriminatory attacks” against the LGBTQ+ community. 

Mayor Bruce Harrell campaigned as a moderate before his win in 2021, pushing public safety and helping local businesses, according to The Seattle Times, although he has expressed support for transgender care previously. 

Harrell was elected following riots in the city after George Floyd’s death and the deadly Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone that, along with the pandemic, devastated parts of the downtown area. 

Harrell “symbolized a shift toward the center, away from some of Seattle’s further-left leaders,” The Seattle Times wrote in 2023 of Harrell’s 2021 win. 

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Bruce Harrell was elected Seattle’s mayor in 2021.  (Mat Hayward/Getty Images)

On Thursday, conservative Seattle radio host Jason Rantz called Harrell’s proposed city legislation “extreme,” but “mostly toothless” and mainly “virtue signaling” to gain favor with Seattle progressives. 

Harrell proposed the legislation after President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting federal funding for providers of transgender healthcare for people under 19. 

“We are proud of Seattle’s reputation as a welcoming and inclusive city for the LGBTQ+ community and recognize their immeasurable contributions to the vibrancy and culture of our city,” Harrell said in a statement this week. 

“This legislation is a tangible step to strengthen local protections and stand with our LGBTQ+ community in the face of hateful, dangerous and discriminatory attacks from the Trump administration and others, ensuring that everyone has access to essential healthcare services.”

Activists for and against transgender rights protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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Trump’s executive orders have been met with lawsuits and are currently blocked by the courts. 

Some hospitals across the country halted transgender care after Trump’s executive orders to avoid losing funding. 

A judge in Seattle also blocked the orders in four states in one of the lawsuits filed by a group of Democrat-led states.

The Seattle skyline seen from Lake Union in Washington state. (Jeff Halstead/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Harrell added that the ordinance affirms Washington state’s “Shield Law” that protects transgender people needing reproductive services and those who provide them from prosecution. 

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Harrell noted this week in a release by the city that he signed a bill in 2022 that made encroaching on reproductive or transgender care a misdemeanor offense. 

He added that, as a member of Seattle’s City Council before his election, he was a “vocal” supporter of access to transgender care for city employees. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

The White House is calling out “rogue bureaucrats” at a small federal agency for attempting to bar members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from entering their headquarters this week.

Elon Musk’s DOGE team members and acting head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Peter Marocco, in accordance with President Donald Trump’s executive order to downsize the federal government, sought to enter the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) building on Wednesday, but were denied entry after reportedly being intentionally locked out by members of the staff.

The cost-cutting team returned to USADF the next day with U.S. marshals after the Department of Justice (DOJ) determined that they had a right to enter the building, a White House official told Fox News Digital, prompting a lawsuit from USADF President Ward Brehm, who asked a district court to bar the administration from removing him from his position.

Brehm, who admitted to directing employees to deny DOGE entry, is attempting to block DOGE from entering the USADF offices, but the White House responded that “entitled, rogue bureaucrats have no authority to defy executive orders by the President of the United States or physically bar his representatives from entering the agencies they run.”

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Elon Musk speaks during an event at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 11. (AP Images)

“President Trump signed an executive order to reduce the federal bureaucracy, which reduced the USADF to its statutory minimum, and appointed Peter Marocco as acting Chairman of the Board,” White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.

In the lawsuit, filed on Thursday, Brehm alleges “unlawful overreach” from DOGE and asks the court to give him a “clear entitlement to remain in his office as the President of USADF” after Trump, according to the White House, appointed Marocco to serve as acting Chairman of the Board.

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Peter Marocco, acting head of the U.S. Agency for International Development. (Getty Images)

“The threatened termination of Brehm from his position as President of USADF, whether by Marocco, President Trump, Director Gao, or any of the remaining Defendants, is unlawful,” the 26-page complaint reads.

On Friday, District Judge Richard J. Leon in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary restraining order preventing Brehm’s removal.

Trump has applauded DOGE’s efforts to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in “waste” from the federal government as he makes “bold and profound change” within the federal government.

“My administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy, and we will restore true democracy to America again,” Trump said during his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. 

Vice President JD Vance, left, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg)

“Any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be removed from office immediately, because we are draining the swamp. It’s very simple,” the president said. “The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over.”

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Fox News Digital reached out to Brehm and USADF for comment, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

Congressional negotiators have released a bill that, if passed, will avert a partial government shutdown during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s term.

The 99-page legislation would roughly maintain current government funding levels through the beginning of fiscal year (FY) 2026, which begins Oct. 1. The current deadline to avert a shutdown is Friday, March 14.

House GOP leaders are confident that they can pass a bill to keep the government funded with Republican votes alone, something that has not been achieved since they took over the chamber majority in January 2023.

But on a call with reporters on Saturday morning, House Republican leadership aides emphasized that the bill was “closely coordinated” with the White House – while stopping short of saying Trump backed the measure completely, noting he has not reviewed the specific pages yet.

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is unveiling a bill to fund the government after President Donald Trump instructed Republicans to avert a shutdown through at least Oct. 1 (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

It includes an additional $8 billion in defense dollars in an apparent bid to ease national security hawks’ concerns, while non-defense spending that Congress annually appropriates would decrease by about $13 billion.

There’s also an added $6 billion for healthcare for veterans.

The White House has requested additional spending in areas that were not present in the last government funding extension, known as “anomalies.”

Among the anomalies requested by Trump and being fulfilled by the bill is added funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Aides said the funding is meant to meet “an operations shortfall that goes back to the Biden administration.”

“That money, most of that, has already been obligated prior to the start of this administration. So that request reflects an existing hole,” a source said.

The bill also ensures that spending caps placed under a prior bipartisan agreement, the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), are followed. The FRA mandated no more than a 1% federal spending increase in FY 2025. 

Cuts to non-defense discretionary spending would be found by eliminating some “side deals” made during FRA negotiations, House GOP leadership aides said. Lawmakers would also not be given an opportunity to request funding for special pet projects in their districts known as earmarks, another area that Republicans are classifying as savings.

Overall, it provides for $892.5 billion in discretionary federal defense spending, and $708 billion in non-defense discretionary spending.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune will have to take up the bill after it passes the House (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

“Discretionary spending” refers to dollars allocated by Congress on an annual basis, rather than mandatory spending obligations like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

The bill is what’s known as a continuing resolution (CR), which differs from Congress’ annual appropriations bills in that it just extends the previous fiscal year’s government funding levels and priorities.

It would be the third and final CR extending FY 2024 numbers, through the remainder of FY 2025. Republicans believe it will put them in the best possible position to negotiate conservative government funding priorities in time for Oct. 1.

The previous two extensions were passed under the Biden administration, when Democrats controlled the Senate.

And while some Democratic support is needed to reach the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, it’s very possible Republicans will have to carry it through the House alone with their razor-thin majority.

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House Democrats traditionally vote to avoid government shutdowns. Now, however, Democratic leaders are directing lawmakers in the lower chamber to oppose the Republican CR.

In a joint letter to colleagues sent on Friday, House Democratic leaders accused Republicans of trying to cut Medicare and Medicaid through their CR – despite it being the wrong mechanism to alter such funds.

“Republicans have decided to introduce a partisan continuing resolution that threatens to cut funding for healthcare, nutritional assistance and veterans benefits through the end of the current fiscal year,” the statement said. “House Democrats would enthusiastically support a bill that protects Social Security, Medicare, veterans health and Medicaid, but Republicans have chosen to put them on the chopping block to pay for billionaire tax cuts.”

But House GOP leaders will need to work to convince nearly all Republican lawmakers to support the bill – despite a history of dozens of conservative defections on CRs over the last two years.

At least one Republican has already signaled he will oppose it. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, who has voted against CRs previously, wrote on X last week, “I am a NO on the CR. Congress needs to do its job and pass a conservative budget! CR’s are code for Continued Rubberstamp of fraud, waste, and abuse.”

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GOP leaders are hoping their close coordination with the White House and a blessing from Trump, however, will be enough to sway remaining holdouts. 

While he has not weighed in on the specific bill, Trump posted on Truth Social this week, “I am working with the GREAT House Republicans on a Continuing Resolution to fund the Government until September to give us some needed time to work on our Agenda.”

“Conservatives will love this Bill, because it sets us up to cut Taxes and Spending in Reconciliation, all while effectively FREEZING Spending this year,” Trump wrote.

Several Republican senators have taken issue with the American Bar Association (ABA) and are calling for President Donald Trump to take drastic action against the group. In a letter to ABA President William Bay, lawmakers said the group, which plays a key role in judicial nominations, had become “biased and ideologically captured.” Now, those lawmakers want President Trump to “remove the ABA from the judicial nomination process entirely.”

Sen. Eric Schmitt, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Sen. Josh Hawley, Sen. Bernie Moreno and Sen. Mike Lee are also calling on their fellow senators to “disregard the ABA’s recommendations.”

President Donald Trump speaks before Pam Bondi (C) is sworn in as US Attorney General in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 5, 2025 as US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (R) looks on.  (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

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In the explosive letter there are allegations, including that the ABA has taken political stances against the Trump administration and that the group has been quiet about its taking funds from USAID. The federal aid group has been a target of the Trump administration, something the ABA has criticized.

“The ABA states, ‘Americans expect better.’ But President Trump won both electoral and popular votes. It seems Americans expect — and want — the Trump administration,” the senators’ letter reads.

Sen. Schmitt tweeted out the letter along with several criticisms of the ABA’s recent actions and statements. In particular, Schmitt took issue with statements the ABA published on Feb. 10 and March 3, both of which were critical of the Trump administration.

“It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law,” the ABA wrote in its Feb. 10 statement. Additionally, the Feb. 10 statement condemns the “dismantling of USAID.”

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) walks to a luncheon with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol Building on Feb. 27, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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The senators reference this statement in their letter, saying that the ABA made “inflammatory claims” against the Trump administration “without citing legal reasoning for those arguments.”  One of these claims is that the “dismantling of USAID” is illegal, but the senators note that the ABA does not explain why these actions are not permitted under the law.

“It is questionable whether the ABA is committed to defending liberty or its own sources of funding,” the senators wrote, referring to the organization’s defense of USAID.

Signage is seen outside the American Bar Association (ABA) in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 10, 2021. (REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)

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The lawmakers also criticized the ABA’s March 3 statement in which the group slams purported “efforts to undermine the courts.” In their letter, the lawmakers note that the association did not issue any statements against former President Joe Biden when he defied the Supreme Court on student loan forgiveness.

In their letter, the senators call out the ABA’s implementation of diversity, equity and inclusion policies, which the Trump administration has been working to root out of the government.

Democratic strategists argue it would have been better for Democratic lawmakers to skip President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress than to cause disruptions, which have since reportedly caused tensions with party leadership.

“I think it would have been smarter to just boycott the speech,” Jim Manley, a Democratic political strategist, told Fox News Digital. “Showing up gave Trump legitimacy that he doesn’t deserve.”

Asked if he thought the Democrats interrupting the president’s speech was a good strategy, Andrew Bates, who served as senior White House deputy press secretary for former President Joe Biden, told Fox News Digital “no.”

“The protests preached to the choir, when we need to grow the congregation — like [Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa] Slotkin did when she said Republicans will make you pay more “in every part of your life” in order to cut taxes for the rich,” Bates said.

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Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, is removed from the chamber as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. (Chip Somodevilla)

Democratic House leadership is reportedly “very unhappy” with the interruptions made by lawmakers during the speech, which included yelling and holding up paddles that read “Musk steals,” and called on several of them to attend a “come to Jesus meeting” to discuss their behavior, a House Democrat told Axios. 

“I didn’t think the Democratic reaction in the room went very well. It just contributed to the theatrics,” Brad Bannon, president of Bannon Communications Research, a political consulting firm, told Fox in an interview. “No one can beat Trump at theatrics. I’m sorry, I love my congressional Democrats, but when it comes to theatrics, they don’t come close.”

“It would have made more sense, in my opinion, to let Trump’s words soak in and not act as a distraction to the lies and falsehoods he told,” Bannon added. “So I don’t think the Democratic reaction in the room was good.”

One strategist shared with Fox that they saw private data demonstrating that voters did not like the protests.

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Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., holds a protest sign with fellow Democrats as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.  (Getty Images)

Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, stood up during Trump’s address and refused to sit down, leading to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., ordering the Sergeant at Arms to remove him from the chamber.

Democratic strategist David Axelrod told Politico that Green’s protest likely “got plenty of attaboys from the base,” but didn’t resonate with most Americans.

“But with many other Americans — and not just Republicans — it was no more appealing than [GOP Reps.] Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert heckling Biden,” Axelrod said in an interview. “It’s just not particularly helpful.”

Democrats were also criticized for not standing up while the president introduced DJ Daniel, a 13-year-old cancer survivor, during the joint address.

Thirteen-year-old cancer survivor DJ Daniel is honored during President Donald Trump’s Joint Address to Congress in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. (Fox News)

“You know, that is a very individual thing. And aren’t there a lot of other things we can be focusing on, as I would think?” Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said when asked why Democratic members did not stand for Daniel. “The word ‘betrayal’ comes to mind with regard to the president.”

Another Democrat, Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., told Fox News Digital that it “was a moving story,” but that “what Trump left out, of course, is he’s cutting research for cancer, which is pretty, pretty bad.”

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However, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., broke with his party on the issue.

“I don’t know why we can’t fully celebrate,” Fetterman told Nicholas Ballasy for Fox. “I mean, I have a 13-year-old myself, and thank God she’s never had cancer, but I think that’s something we can all celebrate there. And I think it was a touching moment. And, like I said, that’s part of the best of the American experience.”

A federal judge has ruled against the Denver public schools system’s attempts to block immigration officials from carrying out raids on school grounds, marking a win for the Trump administration as it looks to ramp up its deportation efforts. 

U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico said Denver Public Schools failed to prove that a recent drop in student attendance at schools was due to the Trump administration reversing a 2021 Biden-era policy of protecting schools — and other sensitive areas like churches — from ICE raids. There are currently more than 1.4 million individuals on ICE’s final order of removal docket.

Denver Public Schools have filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for reversing the policy, claiming the district was “hindered in fulfilling its mission” to students who didn’t turn up to school for fear of immigration enforcement.  

A federal judge has ruled against the Denver public schools system’s attempts to block immigration officials from carrying out raids on school grounds, marking a win for the Trump administration as it looks to ramp up its deportation efforts.  (AP)

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Besides a drop in attendance, Denver Public Schools says it has had to divert resources to respond to fear among students and families over the lifting of longtime rules.

The school system also argued that rescinding the policy had caused schools to devote time and resources to teaching students and staff how to remain safe from immigration enforcement. Denver Public Schools has trained staff on how to handle ICE officers if they show up at school, telling them to deny agents entry if they don’t have a warrant signed by a judge. 

Denver Public Schools had sought a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from making arrests at sensitive locations.

Domenico, a Trump appointee and Colorado’s former solicitor general, said that it wasn’t clear how much of the fear surrounding possible enforcement actions in schools was really due to the new rules as opposed to broader concerns of increased immigration actions.

He also pointed out that Denver Public Schools had not yet experienced any raids and noted that the head of ICE also issued a directive to its officers that immigration arrests at sensitive places still had to be approved by supervisors.

The fear over the new rules, as well as the belief that the old rules provided protection to schools, both seem to be “overstated,” Domenico said.

It wasn’t clear how much of the fear surrounding possible enforcement actions in schools was really due to the new rules as opposed to broader concerns of increased immigration actions, he said.

Domenico also denied a request that he grant a nationwide preliminary injunction forcing immigration officials to revert to the 2021 guidance.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, second from left, during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing titled “A Hearing with Sanctuary City Mayors” in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 2025.  (Anadolu via Getty Images)

Denver Public Schools issued a statement expressing disappointment with the ruling, while asserting that its lawsuit was successful in making public details of the Trump administration rules.

The lawsuit was brought by the school district, not the city of Denver, which is a sanctuary city. The lawsuit stated that there were more than 90,000 students in the Denver Public Schools system during the 2023-2024 school year, and approximately 4,000 were immigrants.

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The ruling came just days after Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and the Democratic leaders of other cities were grilled by Republican members of Congress about their so-called sanctuary city policies that they see as undermining Trump’s immigration and mass deportation efforts, as well as making such cities more dangerous. 

Since Jan. 20, ICE has arrested and deported thousands of people in the U.S. illegally – most of them being criminals with convictions in the U.S. or their home countries. 

Denver has seen a massive population jump in recent years as the city predicts nearly 43,000 people have arrived in the area from the southern border, the lawsuit said. 

The ruling also comes as the Trump administration has restarted the detention of illegal alien families that have deportation orders. 

A migrant lies on the sleeping pad at a makeshift shelter in Denver, Colorado, on Jan. 13, 2023. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

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Parents are now being detained, including with their children, at two ICE facilities in Texas. These are families who have already had their cases heard and have been ordered removed. 

Fox News is told ICE is now actively going into the interior of the U.S. and arresting migrant families that crossed the border illegally in years prior and have been ordered deported from the U.S. by a Justice Department immigration judge. This is known as a final order of removal, of which there are currently more than 1.4 million individuals on ICE’s docket.

Border Patrol data shows more than 2 million migrant family units were apprehended while crossing the southern border illegally during the Biden administration. 

Fox News’ Bille Melugin and Elizabeth Pritchett as well as The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Multiple Republicans in Georgia aren’t ruling out running for Senate in 2026 to take on vulnerable Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff—but they’re making it very clear that the nomination belongs to popular GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, if he wants it. 

“We always consider everything. I’m a moneyball kind of guy,’ Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., told Fox News Digital. 

He pointed to Republicans’ overperformance in his district, part of which is located in the Atlanta suburbs. “Most people realize that we have the highest voter participation in Georgia in our district,” the congressman said. “So of course we’re going to be discussed in this conversation.”

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Georgia Reps. Rich McCormick and Mike Collins left the door open to potential Senate bids in 2026. (Getty Images)

Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., also isn’t taking himself out of the equation.

“If options come about, like this seat that I hold right now, and I see that I can win, and I see that I can make a difference, then, sure, you’re going to take a hard look at it,” he told Fox News Digital. 

However, both men stated in no uncertain terms that if Kemp chooses to run, the nomination is his. “He could win that seat very easily. He could walk away with it,” said Collins. 

“If Governor Kemp gets involved in that race, hands down, I’ll support him,” McCormick explained. “He would win that race both in the primary and the general. So, I want to be very, very specific on that.”

Ossoff’s Senate seat is rated a “Toss Up” by nonpartisan political handicapper the Cook Political Report. Coming off of President Trump’s significant win in Georgia in 2024, Republicans are preparing to spare no expense on winning the Senate seat back. 

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Ossoff was first elected in 2020.  (Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images)

Kemp is the GOP favorite to compete with Ossoff for the battleground state’s Senate seat, but he hasn’t said whether he wants to launch a bid for it. 

“The governor has been clear and consistent on his timeline for making a decision about the U.S. Senate race in 2026. There is no doubt that Georgia Republicans will be united to defeat Jon Ossoff and finally have a voice that reflects our state’s values in the U.S. Senate,” Cody Hall, a senior advisor to Kemp, told Fox News Digital in a statement.

In a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Kemp explained, “I’m in the middle of my legislative session. We’ve got a big tort reform fight going on. I’m chairing the Republican Governors Association. I made a commitment on that.”

“I know I can’t keep holding out forever, so we’ll have something to say on that down the road,” he added. 

In case Kemp doesn’t choose to run, both McCormick and Collins signaled their own candidacy as possibilities. 

“But at the end of the day, you know, if he doesn’t run, the nominee that’ll get it will be the one that Donald Trump picks,” Collins predicted. 

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Kemp hasn’t revealed his plans. (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

As to whether President Trump will weigh into the Georgia Senate Republican primary, as he did previously, former Trump campaign political director James Blair, now White House deputy chief of staff for legislative, political and public affairs, did not immediately provide comment to Fox News Digital. 

In 2022, Trump endorsed gubernatorial candidate David Perdue over Kemp, with whom he has had a strained relationship over the years. Kemp ultimately still won the nomination and the governorship, surviving the battle against a Trump-endorsed candidate, which many have fallen to. 

Trump also involved himself in the Georgia Senate race, endorsing former NFL player Herschel Walker early on to face now-Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga. Warnock won a runoff election against Walker, 51.37% to 48.63%. 

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McCormick highlighted his district’s election performance. (Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“It’s going to be a fight,” McCormick previewed the 2026 race. “It’s going to be maybe a half $1 billion race, which means a lot of money and a lot of things are gonna be said.”

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“We need to make sure our message is clear and that what we’re trying to represent appeals to the Georgia voters,” he added. 

Ossoff’s campaign did not provide comment to Fox News Digital in time for publication.

Rep. Henry Cuellar, who is facing charges of bribery and acting as a foreign agent, is now on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “frontline list” for the 2026 election, which is gaining scrutiny from the group’s GOP rival.

Cuellar, who represents a district along the southern border, was not part of the program meant to assist Democrats at risk of losing their election in 2024, but he still won re-election in November.  

“The DCCC throwing cash at Henry Cuellar, an indicted congressman facing bribery and foreign agent charges, is certainly a choice. Do other frontline Democrats stand by pumping campaign cash into defending a corrupt and sleazy politician?” NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella said in a statement Thursday.

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Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, spoke with Fox News Digital along the Rio Grande during a bipartisan congressional delegation. (Elizabeth Elkind)

The Department of Justice under the Biden administration indicted Cuellar and his wife for allegedly taking roughly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-owned energy company and a Mexican bank, according to a news release at the time.

“I want to be clear that both my wife and I are innocent of these allegations. Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas. Before I took any action, I proactively sought legal advice from the House Ethics Committee, who gave me more than one written opinion, along with an additional opinion from a national law firm,” Cuellar said in a statement at the time, according to KGNS.

At the time of the indictment, President Donald Trump said it may have had to do with border politics.

“Biden just Indicted Henry Cuellar because the Respected Democrat Congressman wouldn’t play Crooked Joe’s Open Border game,” Trump said in a Truth Social post at the time. “He was for Border Control, so they said, ‘Let’s use the FBI and DOJ to take him out!’ This is the way they operate. They’re a bunch of D.C. Thugs, and at some point they will be paying a very big price for what they have done to our Country.” 

Cuellar also recently told Fox News he’s disagreed with some aspects of the Biden administration’s approach on the border crisis. 

In 2024, some Democrats opposed his campaign in the primary due to his belief that abortion should be a state issue, according to Punchbowl News. 

Rep. Henry Cuellar is touting support for his re-election campaign from top Democrats despite fierce opposition to his candidacy in 2022 by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives (Getty Images)

His office did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication. Two “advisors” tied to the case have already pleaded guilty, according to The Texas Tribune.

As for Cuellar, his trial was pushed back to this year. The DCCC declined to comment.

The DCCC program has 26 incumbent members of Congress it plans to invest resources in to retain their seats.

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“These 26 House Democrats are battle-tested and laser-focused on pocketbook issues. Democrats are poised to retake the majority in 2026, and these members will help us do that,” the DCCC tweeted on Thursday.

Republicans have an narrow House majority they hope to defend and expand in 2026.

With cannon fire and a rendition of “The Caisson Song,” Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was officially rededicated to its original name, now honoring a World War II hero instead of an Army officer from the Mexican-American War who later became a Confederate general.

Under the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Army held a ceremony at the 260,000-person-strong base outside Fayetteville on Friday to reverse Democrats’ change to “Fort Liberty” – and to honor a Mainer whose bravery in Bastogne saved the lives of his fellow U.S. service members.

The descendants of PFC Roland L. Bragg – who died in 1999 – were on hand as Lt. Gen. Gregory Anderson offered remarks on the late veteran’s service and ushered in the renaming. It had previously been named after CSA Gen. Braxton Bragg.

“Today we gather on an installation that is the largest in our Army per capita, covering 164,000 acres, supporting over 48,000 soldiers, 80,000 family members, 2000 Department of Defense civilians, and nearly 100,000 retirees and their families,” said Anderson, commanding officer of the 18th Airborne Corps at the base.

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“Fort Bragg is just not any base. It is our nation’s premier force projection platform. It is a culture of toughness and warfighting, and it is a way of life. We refer to Fort Bragg as the center of the universe, the beating heart of our Army’s ability to deploy, without warning, anywhere across the globe, to help and assist others to respond to crises, to deter conflict and, if necessary, to fight and win our nation’s wars,” he continued.

Roland Bragg’s granddaughter also offered remarks, speaking about how her grandfather never publicized his military service and was a quiet, loving patriarch of his family.

She told one story about his enjoyment of grilling pancakes for his grandchildren in whatever shape the children wanted, no matter how complex.

Bragg had been taken prisoner by the Germans in 1943, and – as Anderson retold – somehow convinced a Nazi officer to let him and fellow prisoners go, as both men were Freemasons. Under the condition that a Nazi sergeant be knocked out – so as to provide a sign of a struggle – Bragg happily obliged, and he and his men were set free.

Bragg then commandeered a Nazi ambulance and drove it through fierce fire toward and through American lines, later thinking all the other wounded paratroopers had been killed in the crossfire.

It was not until he received a letter from a California veteran decades later that he found out some had survived the day.

For about four years, Fort Bragg had been “Fort Liberty” – one of several bases, mostly in the South, that Democrats renamed to remove Confederate vestiges.

In a successful veto override of then-President Donald Trump, the 2021 National Defense Authorization Bill, sponsored by Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., included a provision creating a commission that ultimately stripped Braxton Bragg’s name from the North Carolina base.

Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., who represents the base and that piece of the US-421 corridor, previously expressed support for Braxton Bragg’s name being removed – though underlined the decision and result should have been made by the Cumberland County community.

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“I recognize the name Fort Bragg has meaning that transcends Braxton Bragg,” he wrote in a 2021 Fayetteville Observer column. “This is a very tough issue for many in our community and I appreciate that there is a lot of passion on both sides.

On Friday, Hudson told Fox News Digital exclusively that the change to honor Roland Bragg “honors these brave soldiers” who have passed through its gates “as well as their families.”

“When leaders around the world hear the name Fort Bragg, they know it represents the men and women of our Airborne and Special Forces stationed there. These are some of the most dynamic, capable, and elite troops in our military. When President Trump needs a rapid military response, he calls Fort Bragg,” Hudson said.

Fort Moore, Georgia, near the Chattahoochee River’s Alabama border, is the next base primed to be redesignated in a similarly creative way to Fort Bragg.

Long known as Fort Benning – after Gen. Henry Benning of Appling, Georgia – Hegseth’s Pentagon is primed to rename it Fort Benning albeit after a World War I recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross of the same surname.

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Other 2021 changes included Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia – named for a close friend of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, who hailed from nearby Culpeper and had been killed by a Pennsylvania officer during the Third Battle of Petersburg as the Confederacy began to collapse.

Fort Lee in Petersburg, Virginia, is now Fort Gregg-Adams. Fort Hood, Texas, is now Fort Cavazos. Fort Rucker, Alabama, is now Fort Novosel. Fort Pickett in Nottoway, Virginia, is now Fort Barfolk. It remains to be seen if the Pentagon will seek to rename the remaining redesignated installations.

As for Hegseth’s stated view on base name changes, he hinted to The Associated Press that more changes are coming at the behest of Trump and the administration.

“I never called it Fort Liberty because it wasn’t Fort Liberty. It’s Fort Bragg,” he said.

The American dream is “surging” and “America is back,” according to President Donald Trump.

Trump launched the week telling Americans that his administration would work to take “America’s destiny into our own hands” and vowed that “this will be our greatest era” during a joint address to Congress Tuesday. 

Additionally, Trump shared in the address that Ukraine was prepared to sign off on a rare-earth minerals deal and continue peace negotiations to end the war with Russia after talks came to a fiery halt Feb. 28. Trump also disclosed that his administration caught the terrorist behind the 2021 Afghanistan attack that resulted in the death of 13 U.S. troops.

“Tonight, I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity,” Trump said Tuesday. “And he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice.” 

Additionally, Trump urged lawmakers Tuesday to bolster funding for border security to foot the bill for deportations and along the U.S. southern border, claiming that his administration has “launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history.” 

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Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) applaud as U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025.  (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump also promised to work to end the war in Ukraine, days after a tense meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the role of diplomacy to end the conflict with Russia. Hours earlier, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was prepared to come to the negotiating table, despite the disagreement at the White House. 

“It’s time to end this senseless war,” Trump said, adding that it’s important to talk to both sides to end wars.

In response to his joint address, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., blasted Trump’s foreign policy agenda, claiming that Trump would have lost the Cold War if he’d been president in the 1980s. 

“We all want an end to the war in Ukraine, but Reagan understood that true strength required America to combine our military and economic might with moral clarity,” said Slotkin, who was tapped to deliver the official Democratic Party response to Trump’s address. “As a Cold War kid, I’m thankful it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980s. Trump would have lost us the Cold War.”

Here’s what also happened this week:

Negotiating with Iran

Trump indicated that a nuclear deal with Iran could emerge in the near future, following his administration’s effort to reinstate a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran in February. 

Trump told reporters Friday that the U.S is “down to the final moments” negotiating with Iran, and said he’d prefer to move forward in a peaceful fashion rather than utilize military intervention. 

“It’s an interesting time in the history of the world. But we have a situation with Iran that something is going to happen very soon, very, very soon,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “You’ll be talking about that pretty soon, I guess. Hopefully, we can have a peace deal. I’m not speaking out of strength or weakness, I’m just saying I’d rather see a peace deal than the other. But the other will solve the problem.”

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President Donald Trump also signaled that he might impose harsher sanctions on Russia. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

Trump also disclosed that he sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pushing for Tehran to agree to a nuclear agreement or otherwise Tehran could expect military consequences, according to a clip released Friday from an interview with Fox Business that is set to air Sunday.

“I would rather negotiate a deal,” Trump told Fox Business. “I’m not sure that everybody agrees with me, but we can make a deal that would be just as good as if you won militarily.”

Sanctions against Russia 

Trump also signaled that he might impose harsher sanctions on Russia, after Russia reportedly fired 67 missiles and 194 drones in an overnight attack striking Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure, according to Reuters. 

“Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday. “To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late. Thank you!!!”

Additionally, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told reporters that Trump prepared to use “carrots or sticks” to encourage both countries to reach a peace deal. 

No more federal resources for Perkins Coie

Trump also signed an executive order Thursday to pull security clearances and access to certain federal resources for Perkins Coie. The law firm hired the company responsible for crafting the so-called “Steele dossier” containing salacious material about Trump’s alleged connections to Russia, which the president has denied. 

“This is an absolute honor to sign,” Trump told reporters Thursday. “What they’ve done, it’s just terrible. It’s weaponization. You could say weaponization against a political opponent, and it should never be allowed to happen again.”

The executive order suspends security clearances for Perkins Coie employees until a further review evaluating its access to sensitive information is complete to determine if it aligns with the national interest.

TRUMP CUTS OFF FEDERAL RESOURCES FOR LAW FIRM THAT HELPED FUEL 2016 RUSSIA HOAX 

President Donald Trump speaks as Vice President JD Vance, left, and House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., listen as Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Perkins Coie told Fox News Digital it has reviewed the executive order and plans to challenge it. 

Marc Elias, the former chair of the firm’s political law practice, hired opposition research firm Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research into presidential candidate Trump in April 2016 on behalf of Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic National Committee.

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Fusion GPS then brought on the help of former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who composed the so-called “Steele dossier,” which featured scandalous and mostly unverified allegations. However, the document was used to secure surveillance applications against former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page for the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Fox News’ Rachel Wolf and Jacqui Heinrich contributed to this report. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signaled that he wants to repeal the red flag law in the Sunshine State, arguing that it infringes on gun owners’ Second Amendment rights.

The governor made his intentions known during Tuesday’s State of the State Address.

The state’s red flag law was signed by then-Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican who is now a U.S. senator, in the aftermath of the Feb. 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in which 17 people were killed.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signaled that he wants to repeal the red flag law in the Sunshine State. (SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images)

The legislation allows law enforcement to seek a court order to confiscate firearms from someone who is considered a threat to themselves or others and prevents them from purchasing more weapons in the future. This is different from other states with red flag laws where family members and roommates can also petition the court to confiscate firearms.

The Florida law also raised the minimum legal age for purchasing guns in Florida to 21.

DeSantis argues that red flag laws, or risk protection orders, are unconstitutional. He said he would have vetoed the law if he was governor when it was signed in 2018.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis argues that red flag laws, or risk protection orders, are unconstitutional. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“If you look at this red flag law that was passed, they can go in and say, ‘this person’s a danger, they should have their firearms taken away,’ which is property in addition to being something connected with a constitutional right,” DeSantis said. “The burden shifts where you have to prove to a court that you are not a menace or a threat. That’s not the way due process works.”

Nearly 10,000 risk protection order petitions have been filed by law enforcement across the state between July 2022 and the end of 2024, state records show, according to Fox 13.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he would have vetoed Florida’s red flag law if he was governor when it was signed in 2018. ((Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images))

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No bills have been filed in either chamber of the Florida legislature to repeal the red flag law.

President Donald Trump has used his new powers to dismiss a slew of lawsuits filed under former President Joe Biden, including challenges to state abortion bans, allegations of racism in police and fire departments, environmental and anti-whistleblower cases, and various business-related disputes. Meanwhile, he has largely left Biden-era antitrust lawsuits untouched.

The Trump administration took steps as recently as this week to drop a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s abortion ban that only permits the procedures when necessary to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest. The Biden administration tried to circumvent the state ban with its lawsuit that argued the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) required doctors to provide abortions in cases when they are needed to prevent serious health consequences, not just the life of the mother.

“Democrats’ abortion extremism cost them the election,” said Katie Daniel, Director of Legal Affairs & Policy Counsel at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. “With President Trump and a new administration in charge, Biden’s weaponization of the federal government is over — no more lawfare. The will of the people is clear and activist judges must not interfere.”

PRO-LIFE LEADERS URGE TRUMP TO REVERSE HIS IVF STAND, SAY THE TECHNOLOGY IS ‘NOT PRO-LIFE’

Doctors join abortion rights supporters at a rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 24, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Multiple federal civil rights cases revolving around hiring discrimination have also been dropped under Trump. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said it intends to drop a 2023 case alleging anti-immigrant hiring practices at Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Additionally, several federal civil rights lawsuits accusing police and fire departments of racial discrimination based on their provision of certain physical fitness tests and other requirements like credit checks have also been dropped.

“American communities deserve firefighters and police officers to be chosen for their skill and dedication to public safety — not to meet DEI quotas,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement after dismissing the lawsuits that had been levied against multiple jurisdictions around the country.

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A sign at the U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

A former DOJ civil rights attorney, Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Hans von Spakovsky said that in one of the cases against a fire department in Cobb County, Georgia, a judge refused to grant a settlement proposed by the Biden administration due to a lack of evidence proving physical fitness tests and credit report checks are racially discriminatory toward minorities. Spakovsky noted that settlements are typically approved by judges, but the one in Cobb County sought to set up racial hiring quotas that the judge likened to “a racial spoils system,” he said. 

“Here’s a direct quote from the judge: ‘The court will not approve of an agreement which may violate the rights of others without a sufficient evidentiary basis to show that such race-based action is warranted,’” Spakovsky said. 

“The broad scope of all of these dropped civil rights cases,” he concluded, “is that they are throwing out the ones — in my opinion — that call on defendants to violate federal laws against discrimination.”

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Two other high-profile lawsuits recently dropped by the Trump administration include a Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency case against local Louisiana regulators and the synthetic rubber manufacturer Denka, which alleged failure to adequately protect the predominantly minority community near its plant from cancer risks linked to air pollution.

Another dropped case involved a medical whistleblower, Dr. Eithan Haim, who faced prosecution from Biden’s DOJ after he leaked documents to the media revealing Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston was performing transgender medical procedures on minors, even after it said it had stopped complying with new state regulations.

Dr. Phil spoke with multiple whistleblowers who were sounding the alarm about transgender procedures’ impact on youth. Among them was Dr. Eithan Haim, who faced prosecution from former President Joe Biden’s DOJ after he leaked documents to the media revealing Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston was performing transgender medical procedures on minors, even after it said it had stopped to comply with new state regulations.

Trump has also dropped a number of consumer protection and cryptocurrency lawsuits, but has done little in the way of disrupting the Biden administration’s antitrust enforcement, something tech professionals were expecting after the last administration challenged Big Tech companies aggressively for allegedly building monopolies.   

“It’s a big plus for the crypto and fintech sector as a whole, because you just see them celebrating, like you see social posts online of a lot of these executives at those companies that just missed lawsuits who are really happy,” said Kison Patel, a financial tech entrepreneur and the host of “M&A Science,” a podcast about mergers and acquisitions. “It seems like there’s going to be less scrutiny and regulations around that sector.”

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Patel added that while mergers and acquisitions were expected to ramp up this year, he isn’t so sure anymore considering the approach Trump has signaled towards antitrust enforcement.

“I think there’s still a lot to watch in the antitrust area,” said Patel, who pointed to a new case the Federal Trade Commission has brought against a medical device company on antitrust grounds. “But, the take home is there doesn’t appear to be a big shift in position in the realm of regulations around antitrust.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and the Justice Department for comment on this story, but did not hear back by press time. 

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. — who, in the wake of President Donald Trump’s address before a joint session of Congress, accused his own party of “a sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance” — issued a tweet on Friday in which he once again called out Democrats.

“#TheResistance,” he wrote, going on to list, “Snub a 13 year-old cancer survivor,” “Joint Address Protest Paddle Bonanza” and “Bizarre ‘Pick Your Fighter’ videos.”

“Hold our beer: Government Shutdown!” he continued, cautioning, “Never, never, never vote for a shutdown—ever.”

FETTERMAN DISMAYED BY DEMS DISSING ‘TOUCHING MOMENT’ AT TRUMP SPEECH

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., talks with reporters in Russell building after a senate vote on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached out to Fetterman’s office to request a comment from the lawmaker on Friday, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

Trump honored 13-year-old DJ Daniel during the address this week, noting that Daniel, who wants to become a police officer, was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018. 

“I am asking our new Secret Service Director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service,” Trump told the young man.

It was a “touching moment,” Fetterman told Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital earlier this week. 

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During the president’s speech, some lawmakers held up signs with messages including “FALSE,” “SAVE MEDICAID,” “PROTECT VETERANS” and “MUSK STEALS.”

A viral video posted this week by social media influencer Sulhee Jessica Woo features Woo and several Democratic congresswomen posing in fighting stances, like video game characters — text on screen at the beginning of the video reads, “CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER.” 

The video has been widely mocked, including by the White House. “Democrats Not Be Cringe Challenge. Level: Impossible,” the White House’s “Rapid Response 47” X account quipped.

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Fetterman’s post featured a screenshot of a Politico headline that read, “Senate Democrats’ impending choice: Shutdown or surrender.” 

President Donald Trump has been advocating for using a continuing resolution to avert an approaching government shutdown. “I am working with the GREAT House Republicans on a Continuing Resolution to fund the Government until September to give us some needed time to work on our Agenda,” he noted in a Truth Social post.

Getting enough votes to move a continuing resolution through the Senate will require some Democratic support.

“I’m never going to be a part of any vote that shuts the government down,” Fetterman said, according to Politico. “The fact that anyone on our side would even rattle those sabers, that’s bulls—,” he reportedly declared. “To think I’m going to burn the village down to save it, that’s bonkers.”

The Trump Organization is suing Capital One after the bank “unjustifiably” terminated more than 300 of the company’s bank accounts and accounts belonging to numerous Trump family members in 2021. 

Eric Trump told Fox News Digital he will hold major corporations accountable for the “egregious nature of canceling based on political bias.” 

The Trump Organization filed the lawsuit against Capital One in the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit for Miami-Dade County, Florida, Friday. The plaintiffs in the case are Eric Trump, the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, DJT Holdings, DJT Holdings Managing Member and DTTM Operations. 

Eric Trump told Fox News Digital he will hold major corporations accountable for the “egregious nature of canceling based on political bias.”  (Curtis Means -Pool/Getty Images)

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On March 8, 2021, Capital One notified Trump and the plaintiffs that hundreds of bank accounts that they controlled, were beneficiaries of and actively used would be closed June 7, 2021. According to the lawsuit, Capital One did not provide Trump and the plaintiffs any “recourse, remedy, or alternative — its decision was final.” 

The accounts affiliated with the Trump Organization held millions of dollars belonging to them and their affiliated entities. 

Trump told Fox News Digital Friday that 300 business accounts were terminated, as well as various accounts belonging to numerous Trump family members. 

The Trump Organization, according to the lawsuit, has “deposited, transacted, and leveraged hundreds of millions of dollars with Capital One to grow and scale these businesses.” The lawsuit states that “Capital One has profited from Plaintiffs’ substantial deposits, impeccable creditworthiness, and the prestige associated with having a business relationship with President Trump.”

According to the lawsuit, Capital One did not provide Trump and the plaintiffs any advance notice and “unilaterally terminated” the accounts. 

“Capital One is supposed to represent Americans fairly,” Eric Trump told Fox News Digital.  (Leigh Vogel/Polaris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“Plaintiffs suffered considerable financial harm and losses caused not only by the interruption to their access to Capitol One’s banking services, but also by the devastating impact on Plaintiff’s ability to transact and access their monies,” the lawsuit states. “Plaintiffs have reason to believe that Capital One’s unilateral decision came about as a result of political and social motivations and Capital One’s unsubstantiated, ‘woke’ beliefs that it needed to distance itself from President Trump and his conservative political views.

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“In essence, Capital One ‘de-banked’ plaintiff’s accounts because Capital One believed that the political tide at the moment favored doing so,” the lawsuit continued. “In addition to the considerable financial harm that Plaintiffs and their affiliated entities suffered, Capital One’s reckless decision is part of a growing trend by financial institutions in the United States of America to cut off a consumer’s access to banking services if their political views contradict with those of the financial institution.” 

The lawsuit added that “Capital One’s conduct is but one example of a systemic, subversive industry practice that aims to coerce the public to shift and re-align” political views. 

The entrance to Trump Tower Oct. 24, 2022, in New York City.  (Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress)

“Plaintiffs file this action to redress the harm they and their affiliated entities have suffered and shed light on a matter of great public interest and importance,” it states. 

SENATE BANKING PANEL HEARS DEBANKING TESTIMONY: ‘EXTREMELY DISRUPTIVE’

Eric Trump spoke exclusively to Fox News Digital Friday after filing the lawsuit to describe the “damage caused by the bank,” and the “weaponization seen in corporate America and by big banks that are otherwise monopolistic.” 

“Capital One is supposed to represent Americans fairly,” Trump told Fox News Digital. “Canceling golf courses, canceling residential buildings, retail outfits that impact the livelihoods of tens of thousands of employees is egregious and damaging and wrong in the United States of America — especially after having a flawless relationship for more than a decade.” 

Eric Trump told Fox News Digital the American people are “tired of the weaponization in corporate America.”  (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump told Fox News Digital the American people are “tired of the weaponization in corporate America.” 

“I can’t tell you how hard it is to change more than 300 bank accounts — and for no reason whatsoever,” Trump said. “These were hotels and golf courses, residential buildings and commercial buildings, retail outlets and skating rinks and parking garages. There was no political affiliation. These were not political entities.

“The only common denominator was that they wore the Trump name.

TRUMP CONFRONTS BANK OF AMERICA CEO FOR NOT TAKING ‘CONSERVATIVE BUSINESS’

“America is sick and tired of political lawfare,” Trump added. “As a person and as a company, I won’t stand for major corporations that seek to inflict incredible harm and damage on people who might have opposing views.

“I will hold them and others accountable. This is just the beginning.” 

Sources have indicated that Chase, Bank of America and TD Bank also debanked Trump at the time and could face similar legal action in the days and weeks to come.

A Capital One spokesperson told Fox News Digital that: “Capital One has not and does not close customer accounts for political reasons.”

FIRST ON FOX: It’s not easy in today’s political climate to get Democrats and Republicans into a friendly, collaborative space together.

But that’s exactly what happened this week when Lynda Carter, star of the 1970s ABC hit “Wonder Woman,” joined a bipartisan reception on Capitol Hill aimed at getting the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum built.

“It’s often said that certain kinds of men built America. And that is not exactly the truth, because we were there,” Carter told Fox News Digital in an interview during the event. “Most people don’t know about our stories, about the women of America that helped to build our great nation. Those are the stories that I’m excited to have you hear about.”

Despite a bustling day of events Monday, a day before President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress, more than two dozen lawmakers found time to stop by a modest room on the first floor of the U.S. Capitol, where Carter was engaging with others in a bid to get the museum built.

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Lynda Carter was on Capitol Hill for an event promoting a Smithsonian Women’s History Museum. (Fox News Digital)

Funding for the women’s museum was appropriated in 2020 and signed into law during Trump’s first term. 

Now, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., is leading a bill to actually give the museum a spot along the National Mall so it can finally be built.

“We’re very fortunate to be here with a bipartisan effort. And we have 80 co-sponsors of our legislation, both Democrats and Republicans,” Malliotakis told Fox News Digital. 

“It’s very important, so we can share the stories of the women who have come before us,” she added before listing famous females like Rosie the Riveter, a group of Black nurses who worked with tuberculosis patients in the 1900s, known as the Black Angels, and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

And their effort is getting recognized by the very top levels of Congress.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., briefly stopped by the event and spoke with attendees, at one point appearing cheerful during a conversation with Carter.

Lynda Carter was honored by the bipartisan Women’s caucus (From left to right: Reps. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, Lynda Carter, Reps. Emilia Sykes, D-Ohio, and Janelle Bynum, D-Ore. (U.S. House of Representatives)

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was also at the event, as were both male and female members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.

“This is the second and final step of the process,” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., who is co-leading the effort, told Fox News Digital. “Obviously, it’s an important one, because this is the site selection. The hard part was getting it authorized, that’s already done.”

Former Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., who has championed women’s rights for decades, said she had spoken with Johnson during the event and “it seemed like he was gonna look for the votes.”

“I know how effective he is,” Maloney praised. “We’re gonna get it done this time.”

Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., another Democrat leading the effort in Congress right now, affirmed: “We are going to get it done.”

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Lynda Carter is best known for playing “Wonder Woman.”

Dingell did not hesitate when asked whether she was confident about whether the project could be completed despite the current political environment. 

“It has to,” she said.

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It was an evening of bipartisanship for Carter as well, a noted Democrat who campaigned for former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 campaign.

She credited both Republicans and Democrats, however, for coming together on the issue of the museum. 

The event culminated with the co-chairs of the bipartisan Women’s caucus – Malliotakis, along with Reps. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, Emilia Sykes, D-Ohio, and Janelle Bynum, D-Ore. – presenting Carter with a frame memorializing her contributions to women in the Congressional Record.

The two most vulnerable Democratic senators voted against advancing a bill this week to prevent biological males from participating in women’s and girls’ sports, despite popular public support for such a policy. Now, they’re justifying why they did it. 

“I listened to what I heard in New Hampshire, and what we heard from people who were keeping track of how many — Charlie Baker, for example, who heads the NCAA, who said that it only applies to one person,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., told Fox News Digital. 

“I don’t think we need legislation to do that. I think we can police it through the organizations,” she said.

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Sens. Ossoff and Shaheen explained why they voted with all Democrats to block a bill to bar males from women’s sports. (Getty Images)

“This bill was overreach,” Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a statement. 

“School districts and athletic associations can ensure fair, safe competition without subjecting the bodies of adolescent student athletes — children — to intrusive investigation by the federal government,” he said. 

Fox News Digital reached out to Ossoff’s office but did not hear back in time for publication. 

In a recent New York Times/Ipsos survey, the vast majority of Americans said men and boys who identify as transgender women and girls “should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports.” 

However, in a Senate procedural vote on Monday, every single voting Democrat blocked the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act from moving on to a final vote on passage. 

All voting Republicans voted in favor of limiting debate on the measure. If the bill had received enough favorable votes on the motion, it would have overcome the legislative filibuster, which is what the 60-vote threshold on Senate cloture motions is often called. 

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President Donald Trump signs an executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing in women’s or girls’ sporting events, in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Because the vote was only 51 to 45, the bill won’t move forward to a final vote at this time. 

Among Democrats in the NYT/Ipsos poll, 67% agreed with Republicans that biological males shouldn’t be allowed to participate in female sports. 

The bill, introduced by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., would require Title IX to treat gender as “recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth” and would not allow for it to be applied to a differing gender identity. 

“This past week showed us how evil the Democrat party truly is. Every single senator voted to strip away the rights of women and girls everywhere,” Tuberville said in a statement. 

“Both Sen. Jon Ossoff and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen pretend to care about women, but they clearly don’t give a rip about their privacy, safety, or right to fair competition. They think protecting female athletes is an ‘overreach,’ but are perfectly okay with forcing women to share locker rooms and shower with fully intact males. One thing is clear: Jon Ossoff and Jeanne Shaheen are completely out of touch with their voters.”

After their votes, the National Republican Senatorial Committee took a shot at its top Senate targets. “Jon Ossoff could have joined the overwhelming majority of Georgians in the fight for common sense and keeping men out of women’s sports,” NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia said in a statement. “Instead, he told parents and their daughters that Democrats believe they must play sports and share locker rooms and bathrooms with biological males.”

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Demonstrators protest in support of rights for transgender youth. (Fox News )

Both Shaheen and Ossoff are up for re-election in 2026 in New Hampshire and Georgia. While Ossoff has been gearing up for a tough Senate battle for months, Shaheen has yet to announce whether she will be running. 

She is expected to announce her decision at some point this month, sources in New Hampshire confirmed to Fox News Digital. 

Shaheen is the only remaining Senate Democrat in a competitive seat who has not yet publicly revealed her re-election plans. 

Gov. Brian Kemp, R-Ga., is the GOP favorite to take on Ossoff for the southern state’s Senate seat, but he has not said whether he will launch a bid. He said he has “really got a lot on my plate right now,” in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

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Kemp hasn’t said whether he will run for Senate. (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images.)

“I’m in the middle of my legislative session. We’ve got a big tort reform fight going on. I’m chairing the Republican Governors Association. I made a commitment on that.” 

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“I know I can’t keep holding out forever, so we’ll have something to say on that down the road,” he added. 

Nonpartisan political handicapper the Cook Political Report has rated the Georgia Senate race as a “Toss Up,” while the New Hampshire seat is considered “Lean Democratic.” 

The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors Friday voted to close its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) office after President Trump’s executive orders against DEI efforts in the federal government. 

“DEI is done at UVA,” Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin wrote on X Friday. “Today, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted for commonsense saying NO to illegal discrimination and YES to merit-based opportunity. Students at Mr. Jefferson’s University—and across America—deserve unlimited intellectual freedom, not ideological gatekeeping.”

The university’s Board of Visitors is made up of 17 voting members appointed by the governor.

“This is a huge step to restoring the values of Mr. Jefferson, who founded the university, who understood that we are all created equal, and that’s exactly what this is about — ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity,” Youngkin said on the “Ingraham Angle” Friday. 

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The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors on Friday voted to close its diversity, equity and inclusion office.  (Daxia Rojas/AFP via Getty Images)

He said the university’s resolution also eliminates “any program that violates the Constitution, the Civil Rights Act or, of course, President Trump’s executive order that laid all of this out and prohibits moving these programs someplace else where they would be hidden or using third-party contractors.” 

Youngkin said his administration has been working against DEI efforts in the state since his election.

“We, of course, embrace the idea that we come from a diverse society, diverse experiences, and, of course, diverse views, and that, of course, is one of our strengths as a nation, but we have to eliminate illegal discrimination,” he explained. 

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin applauded the resolution.  (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

“And now we’re in a moment where we have our flagship university make a very clear statement that DEI is done at the University of Virginia,” he added. 

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The resolution said the “University’s Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Community Partnerships is hereby dissolved,” adding the school “shall immediately transfer permissible programs to a new organizational home.” 

The resolution didn’t specify what would count as a “permissible” program. 

The resolution added that the university’s president would update the board on compliance within 30 days. 

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The board cited the university’s mission statement, which “includes a commitment to [developing] the full potential of talented students from all walks of life” in its resolution.

It continued by saying that the board “highly values diversity, including diversity of thought and experience, and fosters an inclusive environment, encouraging a culture of opportunity for all, which immensely enriches our Grounds, and is committed to providing every student an education that is free from discrimination and grounded in merit.”

President Donald Trump announced via Truth Social Friday that he had appointed a number of new ambassadors.

Trump announced Amer Ghalib will serve as the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait. 

“As the Mayor of the City of Hamtramck, Michigan, Amer worked hard to help us secure a Historic Victory in Michigan,” Trump wrote.

Hamtramck, Mich., Mayor Amer Ghalib will serve as the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Ghalib earned a medical degree from the Ross University School of Medicine and continues to serve his community as a proud healthcare professional. 

“I know he will make our Country proud in this new role. Congratulations Amer,” Trump wrote.

Trump then announced Duke Buchan III would serve as U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco. 

Duke Buchan III will serve as the U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco. (Europa Press Entertainment/Europa Press via Getty Images)

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“Duke will play a pivotal role as we strengthen Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity for both of our Countries,” Trump wrote. “Congratulations to Duke and his wonderful family!”

Trump named Lynda Blanchard the next U.S. ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. 

“During my First Term, Lynda did a great job as U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia,” the president wrote. “She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Auburn University and, alongside her husband, she helped build a very successful Real Estate company. I know she will work incredibly hard for our Nation. Congratulations Lynda!”

Lynda Blanchard will serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy.  (Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The final announcement named Michel Issa as U.S. ambassador to Lebanon. 

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“Michel is an outstanding businessman, a financial expert, and a leader with a remarkable career in Banking, Entrepreneurship, and International Trade,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Friday night. “I have no doubt that he will serve our Country with Honor and Distinction. Congratulations Michel!”

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…

-New report reveals illegal immigrant population hit new high during Biden-era crisis

-House education chair backs Trump move to abolish federal agency

–Kamala Harris reveals timetable for making major political decision in deep Blue state

Something’s going to happen 

President Donald Trump signaled that a nuclear deal with Iran could emerge in the near future, just over a month after his administration reinstated a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran. 

Trump on Friday told reporters that the U.S. is “down to the final moments” negotiating with Iran, and that he hoped military intervention would prove unnecessary. 

“It’s an interesting time in the history of the world. But we have a situation with Iran that something is going to happen very soon, very, very soon,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “You’ll be talking about that pretty soon, I guess. Hopefully, we can have a peace deal. I’m not speaking out of strength or weakness, I’m just saying I’d rather see a peace deal than the other. But the other will solve the problem.”…Read more

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Donald Trump (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo)

White House

STEELE THE SHOW: Trump cuts off federal resources for law firm that helped fuel 2016 Russia hoax

COULD FOREIGN AID FREEZE SEE A THAW?: U.S. judge orders Trump admin to pay portion of $2B in foreign aid by Monday

GRANTS CUT: Trump cuts more than $400 million in grants to Columbia over antisemitism concerns, more to potentially come

A pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds a flag on the rooftop of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York, US, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.  (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

World Stage

‘BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE’: Trump threatens sanctions on Russia, demands peace after major hits in Ukraine

‘MOST INTERESTED’: Zelenskyy confirms Ukraine will attend U.S. peace talks in Saudi Arabia, 1 week after Oval Office clash

MONEY TROUBLES?: UN prepping for spending cuts as DOGE roots out waste in US, internal docs show

HEALTH BATTLE: Pope Francis still getting oxygen therapy, will not read Sunday prayers

Pope Francis waves from the central loggia of St. Peter’s basilica during the Easter ‘Urbi et Orbi’ message and blessing to the City and the World as part of the Holy Week celebrations, in the Vatican on March 31, 2024. (Tiziana Fabi/Pool/AFP/Getty)

Capitol Hill

‘MADE US LOOK HEARTLESS’: Rep. Ro Khanna describes interaction with flight attendant following Trump speech

THIS LAND IS OUR LAND: Congress exposes China’s potential loophole for Trump tariffs: ‘Drawing a line in the sand’

Across America 

‘INVESTIGATE AND ENFORCE’: HHS expands Title IX probe in Maine to include state association governing athletics, embattled high school

BRAGG IS BACK: Fort Bragg is back: Army renames N.C. base to honor World War II hero

‘JUST THE BEGINNING’: Trump Organization, Eric Trump sue Capital One for ‘unjustifiable’ 2021 debanking based on ‘woke’ beliefs 

BREAKING NEWS: Bryan Kohberger case: Idaho court releases surviving housemates’ text messages from night of student murders

‘FALSE AND MISLEADING’: Noem team demands end to ‘fake news’ reports she spent $650K as governor on credit card — it was $2K

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and a cease and desist letter.  (Getty Images)

WASTING MONEY: DOGE says government paying for 11,020 Adobe Acrobat licenses with zero users, plus more ‘idle’ accounts

‘ABSOLUTELY FACTUAL’: Stranded astronaut says he believes Musk’s claims Biden refused to conduct rescue mission

COME NORTH: Top Dem governor issues order aiming to help fill ‘critical’ state jobs as DOGE cuts federal bureaucracy

‘DEEPLY UNFAIR’: Newsom calls biological men in women’s sports ‘deeply unfair’ in podcast with conservative activist

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