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Noem backs SAVE America Act, slams 'radical left' opposition to voter IDs and proof of citizenship
Why resist verification?

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Friday made the case for the passage of the SAVE America Act, accusing opponents of the bill of favoring access to the ballot box for illegal immigrants. 
Noem was in the Phoenix area where she pushed the Trump administration's efforts to shore up election integrity and voter security. 
She touched on the Save America Act, a bill that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, photo identification to vote in federal elections, and for states to remove non-citizens from their voter rolls. She noted that wide majorities of Republicans and Democrats approve of the legislation. 
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However, she criticized the bill's opponents, who say it will disenfranchise millions of voters. 
"Each of the arguments that have been laid out to criticize this bill are baseless speculation from the radical left because they want illegal aliens to vote in our elections," Noem told reporters during a press conference. "They want to disenfranchise American citizens by telling them that their votes don't matter. There's only one reason that anyone would oppose this bill, and that's because they would want to cheat."
"They want illegal people and aliens in this country to be able to vote for them, and to rob the United States citizens of their vote," she added. "And that's why they resist us at every single level."
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Congressional Democrats have characterized the bill as an effort to disappear millions of American off voter rolls, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., calling it "Jim Crow 2.0," a term used by some to describe modern so-called voter suppression laws.
During her remarks, Noem mentioned a handful of illegal immigrants who were registered to vote in various states.
"There is no room in our election system for people that aren't Americans," she said. "There is no room in our election system for fraudsters and foreign influence."
The secretary also called for Arizona to clean up its voter rolls, noting that DHS Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) can be used to do just that. The program assists local, state and federal agencies to determine the citizenship and immigration status of individuals.
"Maybe people who've passed away, people that aren't citizens, people that don't live here," she said. "That would make sure that in your next election, when people are casting their votes, they know they're voting for the right decisions and that those …

Trump: ‘We don’t run from anybody’ in blasting Biden over Afghanistan withdrawal
What's the administration thinking here?

President Donald Trump Friday sharply criticized former President Joe Biden’s handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling it an "embarrassment" and arguing his administration would not have left military equipment behind.
"You remember that where they left all the military equipment behind? We didn't. We wouldn't have left anything," Trump said while speaking at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. "We were going to get out with dignity and strength, respect. We looked like we were running. We don't run from anybody. That was a Biden embarrassment."
Trump also questioned why aircraft were not flown out of the country.
"We don't leave equipment behind. We don't leave jets behind," he said. "I said, why do you leave those jets behind, sir? I thought it was cheaper to leave it behind. You know, $150 million plane. All they had to do is put a little jet fuel in there and fly it to wherever they want to fly it."
He said the U.S. military had been rebuilt during his first term and is now stronger than ever.
"So with the help of everyone in this room, America is the strongest military on the face of the earth. We rebuilt it. We really did," Trump said. "We rebuilt it in my first term."
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His remarks came during a visit that honored the special operators involved in the operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, which he contrasted as an "extraordinary military operation." 
The U.S. completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 after nearly 20 years of war. The evacuation followed a February 2020 agreement negotiated during Trump’s first term that set a timeline for U.S. forces to leave the country.
Biden oversaw the final withdrawal as Taliban forces rapidly seized control of Afghanistan, culminating in a suicide bombing at Kabul’s airport that killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians.
Biden has argued that he was bound by the withdrawal agreement negotiated during Trump’s first term and faced the choice of completing the pullout or sending more U.S. troops back into combat. Trump has rejected that claim, saying his deal with the Taliban was "conditions-based" and that he would not have withdrawn if the Taliban failed to meet its commitments.

Fox News Digital reached out to Biden Friday for comment and has yet to receive a reply. 

‘Want to Cheat’: Noem Rips ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Against SAVE America Act
Trust is earned, not demanded.

Advocating for an election reform measure that passed the House this week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said elections are a basic infrastructure responsibility for her department. 

“It’s a fact that non citizens have been voting in our elections,” Noem said Firday during a press conference in Phoenix. “They’ve been registered, and they have voted from state to state.”

She called on Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, which cleared the House this week.

Short for Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, the proposal requires proof of citizenship to register to vote and mandates nationwide voter ID. 

Democrats and opponents of the SAVE America Act say voter ID and proof of citizenship requirements would impose an unnecessary burden on voters. 

Noem referenced an example of an illegal alien from who was registered to vote in Maryland and was employed as a school superintendent in Iowa. She cited another illegal alien who not only voted, but was also elected mayor of a Kansas town. 

Noem was flanked by placards showing 84% support for voter ID, and support for the SAVE America Act. 

Noem rebutted what she called “conspiracy theories” from opponents of the bill that it would lead to vast disenfranchisement of women, minorities, and U.S. military service members.

“Each of the arguments that have been out laid out to criticize this bill are baseless speculation from the radical left, because they want illegal aliens to vote in our elections,” Noem said.

“They want to disenfranchise American citizens by telling them that their votes don’t matter. There’s only one reason that anyone would oppose this bill and that’s because they would want to cheat. They want illegal people and aliens in this country to be able to vote for them, and to rob the United States citizens of their vote.”

Arizona also requires proof of citizenship to vote in state elections, but cannot do so in federal elections because of national rules laid out under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, better known as the “Motor Voter” law. 

“As it stands, current guidelines for the National Voter Registration Act effectively stops states from going forward and checking citizenship during registration,” Noem said.

“The SAVE America Act will fix this. It would make sure that we close those loopholes and that we ensure, in American elections, only Americans vote.”

Arizona has been a hub for illegal immigration, and concerns about election integrity because it has been a battleground state. The state voted twice for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2024, and once for Joe Biden in 2020. 

Noem said some Arizona residents have voter registration addresses at mobile homes, and boats on lakes in different states. 

“Your state has been an absolute disaster on elections. Your leaders have failed you dramatically, by not having systems that work by disenfranchising Americans who wanted to vote, they had to stand in lines for hours because machines failed, or software failed,” Noem said. 

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Vance vs. Trump: Would a sudden succession lead to policy continuity or a power struggle?
Is this competence or optics?

With the current political climate in 2026, I’ve been researching the potential for institutional "shocks" to the U.S. government. Specifically, I'm looking at a hypothetical scenario involving a sudden vacancy in the Presidency (Trump) and the subsequent transition to the Vice President (Vance).
I’m interested in discussing three specific areas:
Public Perception and Blame: Historically, tragedies involving the executive branch can lead to a "Rally 'Round the Flag" effect. However, given current polarization, would we see a unified response, or would the "blame narrative" create a more significant fracture in social stability?
Policy Continuity: How does JD Vance’s brand of "National Conservatism" differ from the current administration’s populist approach in terms of executive execution? Would a Vance presidency be viewed by international allies as a more or less stable "MAGA 2.0"?
The 25th Amendment in Practice: Are there significant legal or logistical hurdles a "successor" president faces when taking office during an active election cycle or a period of high international tension?
Looking forward to a fact-based discussion on the systemic risks and outcomes here.

Reporter's Notebook: Bondi’s binder strategy turns House hearing into political firestorm
Ask who never gets charged.

The overstuffed white binders appeared a few moments before Attorney General Pam Bondi exited her motorcade, and strode through the horseshoe entrance of the Rayburn House Office Building.
Roll Call photographer Tom Williams and I stood in the hallway, negotiating our positions for Bondi’s entrance. Williams would position himself on the far side. I slid to the wall nearest the horseshoe entrance. Ali Vitali of MS NOW and Jay O’Brien of ABC worked the sidewall.
A coterie of Bondi’s aides appeared. One bogged down by the massive binders.
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"Let her get into the room," instructed the aide.
I politely reminded the aide that the corridor was an open hallway on Capitol Hill. It wasn’t closed off by the U.S. Capitol Police. So, tossing questions at the Attorney General was fair game.
And, thus began another dance between reporters, security details, the U.S. Capitol Police, aides and Cabinet members when they appear for major Congressional hearings.
At the time, we had no clue what was in the binders. But you couldn’t ignore the sheer size of them.
It’s not uncommon for aides to haul in briefing books for a principal when they testify. However, no one has seen binders like this since Kinko’s was still in business.
The contents of what the binders contained was about to play a central role in Bondi’s testimony to the House Judiciary Committee.
But the first charge of the morning was to query Bondi. There was so much going on. All of which were subjects that the Attorney General could address.
Speaking of files…
Bondi wasn’t there to testify about the Epstein files, per se. But Democrats – and one Republican – would make the Justice Department’s release of partially redacted documents the focus of the hearing. So there was plenty to ask Bondi about that.
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However, there were overnight developments from Arizona. Authorities detained a person near the Mexico border in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. What Bondi might know about the FBI’s role in this was worth a question. 
Then, there was a cryptic alert that officials were shutting off the airport in El Paso to all air traffic for ten days. Was there a threat of terrorism? Something about cartels? Finally, a story broke overnight that the Justice Department sought to indict six Democratic lawmakers for their video telling service members they didn’t have to comply with unlawful orders. A District of Columbia grand jury …

Democrats demand meeting with Bondi over ‘spying’ on Epstein files access
What's the endgame here?

House Democrats demanded a meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday over the Justice Department’s alleged “spying” on members of Congress accessing the Epstein files.

Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Robert Garcia (D-CA) wrote a combative letter to Bondi, just two days after her equally bellicose hearing. In it, the Democrats demanded the DOJ stop “spying” on members of Congress, and immediately give them “meaningful access to the fully unredacted Epstein files.”

“On Wednesday, a photograph of a page in the ‘burn book’ binder you brought to a House Committee on the Judiciary hearing revealed to Congress and the world that your DOJ has been secretly tracking Members of Congress as they review the slightly-less-redacted Epstein files,” they wrote.

“This surveillance of Members as we perform our constitutional oversight duties, done without our knowledge or consent, is a blatant violation of the separation of powers and further evidence that this DOJ will stop at nothing to protect Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s co-conspirators, accomplices, and enablers while denying justice to survivors and the American people,” the Democrats added.

One piece of evidence outlined in the document was Bondi’s document displayed in the hearing titled “Jayapal Pramila Search History,” which her team confirmed as authentic.

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The trio described Bondi’s conduct as “so outrageous” that it even earned the condemnation of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

They demanded Bondi provide a date to meet with them before Feb. 20 and to outline a method by which members of Congress can view the unredacted files in a convenient way without being watched.

Nancy Pelosi talks up Newsom for 2028 presidency
What's the endgame here?

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) would be a “great” president, as many potential 2028 Democratic contenders attend the Munich Security Conference. 

Newsom is attending the conference along with other possible Democratic contenders, including Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI). 

“Yes, I think he’d make a great president,” Pelosi said when asked if Newsom would make a good president. “I think we also have a great bench, and we have a lot of good candidates.”

Would @GavinNewsom make a good president?

"Yes, I think he'd make a great president," @SpeakerPelosi told us in the #POLITICOPub at #MSC2026.

"I think we also have a great bench, and we have a lot of good candidates," she added.
— POLITICO (@politico) February 13, 2026

Pelosi told Politico that Democrats are in Munich to tell world leaders that relationships with the United States will be different when their party is back in power after the midterm elections. 

“We’re getting out there to do three things, “ she said. “One, to win the House, which we will. Two, to protect the elections, to give everybody confidence that we will win the House … and the third thing is to tell them how different things will be when Hakeem gets that gavel.” 

Politico asked Pelosi if she is concerned about Democrats gaining back control of the House, to which she said she doesn’t “worry.” 

“I don’t worry, we act,” she said. “We don’t agonize, we organize.” 

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Throughout the conference, multiple Democratic lawmakers have been questioned about future presidential runs. 

Newsom also told CNN that he is attending the conference to remind world leaders that President Donald Trump is “temporary.” 

“Well, I‘m here in many respects to remind everyone that Trump is temporary. He‘ll be gone in a matter of years,” he said. “States like California are permanent. We‘re reliable stable partners.”

When asked if he thought world leaders were “treating” him as the next president, he said “I don‘t know about that.”

Newsom said he “honestly” doesn’t know if he will run for president in 2028. 

“I really don‘t, but I am trying to be accountable to the world I‘m living in. I don’t want to live with any regrets,” he said. “I don‘t want to say I could or would or should have been on some panel, or go on your show as one of those you know, …