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Trump admin uncovers 'staggering' $8.6 billion in suspected California small business fraud
Be honest—this is ridiculous.

The federal Small Business Administration suspended more than 111,000 California borrowers after uncovering $8.6 billion in suspected fraudulent activity linked to the COVID pandemic, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced Friday. 
"We have suspended nearly 112,000 borrowers tied to at least $9 billion in suspected fraud," Loeffler said in a press release on Friday. "This staggering number represents the most significant crack-down on those who defrauded pandemic programs, and it illuminates the scale of corruption that the Biden Administration tolerated for years."
The SBA reported that all in, it suspended 111,620 California borrowers who received 118,489 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) loans, totaling $8.6 billion. 
THE BORDER GETS THE ATTENTION WHILE FRAUDULENT GOVERNMENT BENEFITS BLEED TAXPAYERS DRY
PPP loans were COVID-era federal relief program that gave small businesses money to keep workers on the payroll, while EIDL loans are part of an SBA program that provides low-interest disaster relief loans to help businesses survive during times of diaster, including the pandemic. 
"Once again, the Trump SBA is taking decisive action to deliver accountability in a state whose unaccountable welfare policies have created a culture of fraud and abuse at the expense of law-abiding taxpayers and small business owners," Loffler continued. 
CHILDCARE EXPERT EXPOSES KEY ROADBLOCK TO UNCOVERING POTENTIAL FRAUD SCHEMES IN MINNESOTA: 'REALLY DIFFICULT'
The announcement follows California Attorney General Rob Bonta saying on Thursday that the Trump administration was promoting "baseless claims" of persistent fraud in the state. 
"Trump claims California is wasting money when, in reality, our programs are helping lower-income individuals and lower-income families get healthcare, food and housing assistance," Bonta said on Thursday. 
"Trump claims, wrongly, California is perpetuating fraud when we are the victim," he added. 
Bonta's office noted that California recovered nearly $2.7 billion in various fraud schemes across the last 10 years, "including by partnering with the federal government." 
EXCLUSIVE: SENATE BILL TARGETS MINNESOTA-STYLE ‘RUNAWAY FRAUD’ TO FORCE SCAMMERS REPAY TAXPAYERS
Fox News Digital reached out to Bonta's office on Friday for additional comment. 
Newsom's office directed Fox News Digital to the Governor Newsom Press Office X account, which mocked the SBA announcement. 
"OMG. The Trump Administration found MAJOR FRAUD in programs THEY control, Newsom's Press Office's X account posted, linking to …

Ex-'Squad' Dem appears to be leaning on radical activist at center of damning Tlaib report in comeback bid
What's the endgame here?

FIRST ON FOX: A former "Squad" House Democrat running for her old seat recently dished out over $20,000 to a consulting firm that appears to be the same firm that Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., received backlash over after paying out over $400K for "fundraising consulting" between 2020 and 2024.
A Fox News Digital review of Federal Election Commission filings reveals Cori Bush’s House campaign paid $23,761 to "Unbought Power," which appears to still be under the leadership of far-left activist Rasha Mubarak. 
Bush, who is currently running to reclaim the seat she lost in 2024 in Missouri's 1st Congressional District, reported two separate disbursements of $12,761 and $11,000 to Unbought Power on Dec. 5. The expense description on both disbursements was also "Fundraising Consulting."
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While Unbought Power is a Florida-based political consulting firm that was founded by Mubarak in March 2020, Bush's most recent FEC filing lists Unbought Power's address as the same P.O. Box as the Bush campaign's P.O. Box, prompting multiple inquiries from Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Bush campaign and Mubarak multiple times about the payments and whether this was the same company, but neither responded. 
Mubarak recently came under fire in a new report released earlier this week by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, which was exposing Tlaib's ties to radical groups. 
Mubarak and Unbought Power were included in the report, highlighting her affiliation "with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2009 Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial."
"Mubarak has also been a speaker at events held by the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), an organization that promoted the BDS movement," the report continued.  "Previously, in September 2023, she served as the press contact for the Arizona-based non-profit Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), which was investigated for ties to Samidoun, an anti-Israel advocacy group banned in Germany, Canada, and Israel and classified as a terrorist entity in the United States for financing the PFLP."
Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director of Americans for Public Trust, told Fox News Digital that "Personnel is policy. Hiring a consultant with such a well-documented track record of anti-American and antisemitic ideas tells us everything we need to know about Cori Bush’s priorities." 
Mubarak, a Palestinian American activist, has been …

Trump vows to ‘unleash’ commercial fishing off New England, reversing Obama-era Atlantic restrictions
Is this competence or optics?

President Donald Trump said he issued a presidential proclamation reopening thousands of square miles of protected Atlantic Ocean waters off New England to commercial fishing, saying the move would reestablish fishing access and reduce what he called burdensome restrictions on fishermen.
Trump made the announcement on Truth Social late Friday, writing that the move was "another BIG WIN for Maine, and all of New England."
The proclamation would reestablish fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the New England coast, a nearly 5,000-square-mile preserve east of Cape Cod that was created by former President Barack Obama. Trump rolled back protections in the area during his first term, and President Joe Biden later restored them.
"Today, I signed a Presidential Proclamation to UNLEASH Commercial Fishing in the Atlantic Ocean, advancing the America First Fishing Policy!" Trump wrote. "I am restoring nearly 5,000 square miles of fishing access off the Coast of New England, which will revitalize our fishing industry and strengthen our booming economy."
ZELDIN OVERHAULS BIDEN-ERA WATER RULE TO END ‘WEAPONIZATION’ THAT LED ‘PUDDLES’ TO TRIGGER PRICY PERMITS
Trump has long been critical of the marine monument, which Obama described at the time as a way to protect vulnerable undersea corals and ecosystems. Trump has described the restrictions as an unfair penalty on commercial fishermen.
Trump said Democrats had imposed excessive and unnecessary regulations on fishermen for years.
"In my first term, I reversed the prohibitions placed on commercial fishing, but Joe Biden, or whoever was using the AUTOPEN, foolishly reinstated them," Trump wrote. "Since Day One, I have taken historic action to end these disastrous policies."
ENERGY GROUPS CELEBRATE TRUMP'S LATEST MOVE TO UNLEASH ALASKA DRILLING
Earlier this year, Trump also signed a broader order directing federal agencies to reduce the regulatory burden on fishermen, according to the White House.
Commercial fishing groups welcomed the move, saying it would expand access while allowing the industry to operate sustainably.
"We deserve to be rewarded, not penalized," John Williams, president and owner of the New Bedford, Massachusetts-based Atlantic Red Crab Company, told The Associated Press. "We’re demonstrating that we can fish sustainably and continue to harvest on a sustainable level in perpetuity."
Environmental groups criticized the proclamation and warned that reopening the area could threaten sensitive marine ecosystems.
"The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National …

Bill and Hillary Deposition is My Superbowl
Be honest—this is ridiculous.

Bill and Hillary back in PRIMETIME BABY!
Bill and Hillary are actually demanding their depositions be public. No closed doors, no secrets. Are they finally ready to spill it all and give us the dirty details from their time with the world’s #5 ranked asshole, Jeffrey Epstein?
Who was there? What the hell did they actually do? I don't have the answers, but I’ll be glued to my TV if this hits the airwaves. It’s just one more way to stick it to the Boomers....our Watergate is way better than yours.
Grab the popcorn.

Top Haiti leader reveals which US policy the country would be 'helpless' without: 'Give them money'
Who benefits from this decision?

One of the nine current leaders of Haiti's transitional government admitted to Fox News Digital that his country is currently "helpless" to handle the return of its citizens, noting that Haiti relies on billions of dollars generated by U.S., Canadian and French-based migrants to keep its economy going.
Leslie Voltaire, a member of the nine-member transitional council leading Haiti ahead of scheduled elections later this year, described a state of total dependency on a "temporary" protected status that has now spanned more than 15 years, and which President Donald Trump is trying to end. Voltaire warned that a sudden termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) would trigger an immediate crisis as the nation lacks the economic infrastructure to reabsorb as many as 400,000 repatriated citizens from the United States.
"We think that we are helpless if another country is sending back our compatriots," Voltaire told Fox News Digital. "We cannot do anything about it – just accommodate them, give them money to go back to their provinces and to their cities, help them with food, but it's very painful due to the small budget that we have in the government."
Trump tried to end Haiti's long-standing TPS status during his first administration, but similar to today, federal judges stepped in to block the move. In November, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a notice indicating that Haiti's temporary status would not be renewed this month, but in a subsequent 11th-hour ruling earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from ending Haiti’s TPS status. Reyes argued the move was likely motivated by "hostility to non-white immigrants" as opposed to an objective view of the ongoing situation in Haiti. 
STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES SECURITY ALERT AMID 'HEAVY GUNFIRE' NEAR US EMBASSY IN HAITI
Shortly before Fox News Digital spoke with Voltaire Thursday evening, three U.S. warships arrived off the coast of Haiti ahead of the country's Feb. 7 deadline for the council to transition power to a soon-to-be elected leader, or leaders. In addition to the U.S. ramping up its presence, the United Nations recently approved, with U.S. support, the deployment of a new Gang Suppression Task Force to Haiti to help with the ongoing violence there.  
When asked for specific metrics on when Haiti might be stable enough to no longer require its TPS status, Voltaire did not point to anything concrete, like a certain number of police officers, territory controlled, or national GDP. Rather, Voltaire said that …

DHS fires senior CBP official for allegedly leaking sensitive information
Every delay has consequences.

FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security fired a senior Customs and Border Protection official on Thursday after it was revealed that the officer was allegedly leaking sensitive, personal information about CBP personnel, as well as negotiations regarding the border wall to the press, sources within the department told Fox News Digital. 
The official, who was unnamed, was marched out of his CBP office in Washington D.C., after DHS discovered the leak, sources said.
"As DHS law enforcement face an 8000% increase in death threats, leaking law enforcement sensitive information is abhorrently dangerous," a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "DHS is agnostic about your standing, tenure, political appointment, or status as a career civil servant — we will track down leakers and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law."
The news comes just days after a Fox News Digital investigation uncovered an underground communications network being used by anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators across the country. Tactics include the doxxing of agents, the tracking of license plates and releases of personal information about agents.
NOEM PRAISES DHS OFFICERS ON LAW ENFORCEMENT APPRECIATION DAY AS ATTACKS ON FEDERAL AGENTS SPIKE NATIONWIDE
Fox News Digital also learned that at least 13 database systems are now known to store the data, which includes personal information as well as photographs, uniform details, behavior patterns, phone numbers, and other sensitive items. 
Last week, FBI Director Kash Patel said the agency is investigating the now widely known Signal messaging chats that have allowed agitators to communicate to obstruct and confront federal agents in Minneapolis and in cities across the country. 
It is unclear whether the officer who was fired on Thursday had any involvement in Signal group activities, as sources at DHS could only confirm leaks to the press.
THE FAR-LEFT NETWORK THAT HELPED PUT ALEX PRETTI IN HARM'S WAY, THEN MADE HIM A MARTYR
The same Fox News Digital investigation reveals that sensitive information is at the center of what’s driving vigilante-type agitators to travel to hot spots where demonstrations are taking place. 
A nationwide web of hundreds of anti-ICE groups facilitates a "rapid response" system to train civilians and call them to action. Federal law enforcement officers have clashed with the trained and allegedly well-funded agitators on multiple occasions. These clashes have led to assaults on agents, raising concern over potentially physical and potentially deadly outcomes for both …

Trump gives Russia and Ukraine June deadline to end war: Zelensky
This feels like a quiet policy shift.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that the United States has set a June deadline for Ukraine and Russia to end the war between the two countries. 

Zelensky said the Trump administration proposed holding another round of trilateral talks seeking to end the war next week. Ukraine has accepted the invitation to the talks, which would take place for the first time in the U.S., likely in Miami, according to Zelensky. Trump has long promised to end the bloodshed in Eastern Europe, vowing to end the war quickly while on the 2024 campaign trail. The president has boasted about ending numerous wars during his first year in office, but has yet to reach his most coveted foreign affairs achievement.

“The Americans are proposing the parties end the war by the beginning of this summer and will probably put pressure on the parties precisely according to this schedule,” he told reporters. “And they say that they want to do everything by June. And they will do everything to end the war. And they want a clear schedule of all events.”

ZELENSKY CALLS FOR ‘CLEAR RESPONSE’ FROM US AFTER RUSSIA’S USE OF NUCLEAR-CAPABLE MISSILE IN STRIKES

The development comes after the U.S. wrapped up earlier this week two days of trilateral meetings between Washington, Ukraine, and Russia. Although Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff called the negotiations in Abu Dhabi “constructive,” they appeared to bear no major concrete results, aside from the delegations agreeing to an exchange of 314 prisoners of war, and the U.S. and Russia opening up a “crucial” chain of “military-to-military dialogue.” 

Still, Trump sounded an optimistic note, hailing “very, very good talks,” and telling reporters “something could be happening.” While the president is signaling hope, he has expressed vocal frustration after Russia and Ukraine sailed past a number of his deadlines which sought to pressure the countries into negotiations. Last year, Trump set a deadline of August 8 for a deal. He subsequently said he wanted Ukraine to accept a new peace deal by Thanksgiving, and Christmas was later floated as another deadline.  

A deal has stalled partly due to breakdowns in negotiations over Russia’s occupation of large swaths of the Donbas region. Ukraine has said the return of the land is a non-negotiable in any peace deal. 

The U.S. has offered a compromise, with a proposal to turn the Donbas region into a free economic zone. Zelensky has been open to discussions on the matter, but said Friday that …

DeSantis celebrates end of 'witch hunt' as Trump DOJ reportedly drops Hope Florida Foundation probe
This looks less like justice and more like strategy.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis celebrated how the Department of Justice reportedly decided to dismiss a complaint into the Hope Florida scandal that rocked the former presidential candidate and became a talking point for DeSantis critics.
The Floridian reported that President Donald Trump’s DOJ looked into the controversy in late 2025, but a source within the agency told the local outlet that there is "no predicate to open up an intake on this" and that "no further action is anticipated."
"The witch hunt against the Hope Florida Foundation was orchestrated by left-wing media and their RINO allies," DeSantis said in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital in response to the report. "As we’ve said from day one, all agency actions were appropriate and legally sound."
"The Hope Florida initiative continues to be the most successful conservative anti-poverty initiative of any state in the country," DeSantis added.
TRUMP-BACKED DONALDS VOWS TO MAINTAIN DESANTIS 'TRAJECTORY,' TAKE FLORIDA TO 'WHOLE NEW LEVEL'
The Justice Department has not publicly confirmed the complaint has been dropped. Fox News Digital reached out to the DOJ for comment.
The controversy originated after Centene, a major health insurance company focused on government-sponsored programs such as Medicaid and Medicare, agreed to return $67 million to Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicaid. After the settlement was finalized in September 2024, $10 million of the recovered funds was directed to the Hope Florida Foundation.
The Hope Florida Foundation then distributed the $10 million as two $5 million grants to 501(c)(4) organizations: Save Our Society from Drugs and Secure Florida’s Future, Inc.
Of the funds distributed, $8.5 million ultimately flowed to Keep Florida Clean, a political action committee known for its efforts to defeat Florida Amendment 3, which would have legalized recreational marijuana through a constitutional change. Casey DeSantis, the governor’s wife who has been floated as a potential candidate for governor herself, has consistently expressed opposition to the legalization of marijuana.
Critics argue that the funds that wound up at Keep Florida Clean, which existed due to a government settlement, should never have been funneled into a political action committee for political campaigning. 
The funds were originally unearthed by Florida state Republican Rep. Alex Andrade, who told Fox News Digital in June that DeSantis’ then-chief of staff turned attorney general, James Uthmeier, was allegedly the lead culprit of the …

Top Haitian leader reveals which US policy the country would be 'helpless' without: 'Give them money'
Who benefits from this decision?

One of the nine current leaders of Haiti's transitional government admitted to Fox News Digital that his country is currently "helpless" to handle the return of its citizens, noting that Haiti relies on billions of dollars generated by U.S., Canadian and French-based migrants to keep its economy going.
Leslie Voltaire, a member of the nine-member transitional council leading Haiti ahead of scheduled elections later this year, described a state of total dependency on a "temporary" protected status that has now spanned more than 15 years, and which President Donald Trump is trying to end. Voltaire warned that a sudden termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) would trigger an immediate crisis as the nation lacks the economic infrastructure to reabsorb as many as 400,000 repatriated citizens from the United States.
"We think that we are helpless if another country is sending back our compatriots," Voltaire told Fox News Digital. "We cannot do anything about it – just accommodate them, give them money to go back to their provinces and to their cities, help them with food, but it's very painful due to the small budget that we have in the government."
Trump tried to end Haiti's long-standing TPS status during his first administration, but similar to today, federal judges stepped in to block the move. In November, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a notice indicating that Haiti's temporary status would not be renewed this month, but in a subsequent 11th-hour ruling earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from ending Haiti’s TPS status. Reyes argued the move was likely motivated by "hostility to non-white immigrants" as opposed to an objective view of the ongoing situation in Haiti. 
STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES SECURITY ALERT AMID 'HEAVY GUNFIRE' NEAR US EMBASSY IN HAITI
Shortly before Fox News Digital spoke with Voltaire Thursday evening, three U.S. warships arrived off the coast of Haiti ahead of the country's Feb. 7 deadline for the council to transition power to a soon-to-be elected leader, or leaders. In addition to the U.S. ramping up its presence, the United Nations recently approved, with U.S. support, the deployment of a new Gang Suppression Task Force to Haiti to help with the ongoing violence there.  
When asked for specific metrics on when Haiti might be stable enough to no longer require its TPS status, Voltaire did not point to anything concrete, like a certain number of police officers, territory controlled, or national GDP. Rather, Voltaire said that …

Vance and Rubio get 2028 presidential ticket exposure in Milan for Olympics
Is this competence or optics?

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio landed in Milan on Thursday to lead the U.S. delegation for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Their trip comes as GOP pundits — and President Donald Trump himself — have boosted the pair as a possible 2028 presidential ticket.

Presidents, vice presidents, or first ladies have often represented the United States in past Olympics, but the two top Trump administration leaders together are one of the highest-ranking delegations the nation has sent to the global games.

Vance spoke to a group of athletes representing the U.S. at the games on Thursday night, striking a message about national unity as he shared the fact that second lady Usha Vance, who he said does not typically like sports, loves the Olympics.

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“This is one of the few things that unites the entire country. And if you can get a person who’s not a big fan of sports to obsessively watch the Olympics, you know that it’s a very special thing,” Vance said. “You can tell by the ratings from the Olympics, you can tell by the fact that it really brings the country together — everybody is rooting for you guys.”

The vice president later joked with an Ohioan athlete, saying, “You became an Olympian, and I became a politician; worked out much better for you.”

Vance added that he hoped all athletes soaked in the experience.

“I hope you win as many medals as possible, but most of all, I just hope you enjoy the experience,” Vance said. “The whole country — Democrat, Republican, independent — we’re all rooting for you.”

The vice president also met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during his visit.

Rubio did not make any publicly broadcast remarks with Vance before the Olympians, but he did meet the athletes and pose for a photo with them, his wife Jeanette Rubio, the Vances, and the Ambassador to Italy Tilman Fertitta.

Vance and Rubio have been seen as two frontrunners to make up the GOP 2028 presidential ticket throughout the past year, surging into the conversation when Trump touted the two as a pair that would be “unstoppable.” The two have maintained a close friendship throughout the first year of the Trump administration, calling each other their best friends in the Cabinet, and are standing together as a duo in charge of the U.S. Olympic delegation on a global scale.

Vance, who has already secured an endorsement from Turning Point USA’s Erika Kirk …