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Leavitt says Trump spoke to Walz, demands Minnesota 'work together peacefully' with ICE: 'Let cops be cops'
Every delay has consequences.

President Donald Trump spoke directly with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and demanded that state and local law enforcement "work together peacefully" with federal authorities Monday.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt spoke about the conversation during her Monday press briefing, saying Trump wants to "let cops be cops." She condemned Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for encouraging anti-ICE agitators, saying it led to the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, who were killed by law enforcement this month.
"It is President Trump's hope and wish and demand for the resistance and chaos to end today. That's why President Trump spoke to Gov. Walz directly this morning, and he has outlined a clear and simple path to restoring law and order in Minnesota," Leavitt said.
His first demand is that Walz, Frey and Democratic leaders elsewhere in the state turn over all illegal aliens currently incarcerated, in addition to any illegal aliens with "active warrants or known criminal histories."
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Trump also demanded that state and local law enforcement be permitted to hand over illegal aliens who are arrested. Finally, Trump is calling for local law enforcement to assist in apprehending and detaining illegal aliens who are wanted for crimes.
"If Governor Walz and Mayor Frey implement these common sense cooperative measures ... Customs and Border Patrol will not be needed to support ICE on the ground in Minnesota," Leavitt said. "ICE and local law enforcement can peacefully work together as they are effectively doing in so many other states."
"We want to let cops be cops," she said.
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The push comes as Trump is also calling on Congress to pass legislation to ban sanctuary cities, where law enforcement is prohibited from working with federal authorities.
Walz acknowledged his call with Trump in a statement on social media, but it did not appear that the pair came to any agreement.
"I spoke to the President earlier. We had a productive conversation and I explained to him that his staff doesn’t have their facts straight about Minnesota," Walz wrote.
He shared an accompanying op-ed he wrote for The Wall Street Journal on Monday, in which he argued that federal presence in Minnesota is no longer about immigration, but rather "a campaign of organized brutality against the people of our state."
"The administration claims that Minnesota jails release 'the worst of the worst.' …

88-year-old Democrat DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton ends re-election campaign
Are they actually going to vote on something real?

Washington, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, an 88-year-old Democrat, will not pursue another term during the 2026 election. 
Norton’s campaign filed a termination report with the Federal Election Commission on Sunday.
Fox News Digital reached out to her campaign on Monday.
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser hailed Norton's record in a post on Sunday.
"I want to congratulate Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton on a remarkable career. For 35 years, Congresswoman Norton has been our Warrior on the Hill - from securing shutdown protection for the city and the creation of DCTAG, to defeating continued attacks on Home Rule and leading historic votes in the House for DC Statehood. Her work embodies the unwavering resolve of a city that refuses to yield in its fight for equal representation," Bowser asserted in the post on X.
In a September Washington Post opinion piece, Donna Brazile, who has worked for Norton in the past, advocated for her to retire.
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"It’s in her best interest, and the interest of D.C., for her to serve her current term but then end her extraordinary service in Congress and not seek reelection next year," Brazile wrote. "As I’ve told her in person, retirement from Congress is the right next chapter for her — and for the District."
Norton, who took office in 1991, has held the seat for three and a half decades.
Several people, including former Norton staffer Trent Holbrook, are running for the D.C. delegate slot.
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"I think its evident that she’s not going to successfully run," Holbrook noted, according to a Washington Post report published earlier this month. "Congresswoman Norton is one of the most successful lawmakers in American history."
The D.C. delegate does not get to vote on legislation like regular representatives in the House, but can introduce legislation and sit on committees.
The Associated Press contributed to this report

This Senator Wants to Force a Vote on Election Integrity Bill
Transparency shouldn't be controversial.

Sen. Rick Scott has called for a standing filibuster to force a vote on legislation requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration. 

“We’ve got to secure our election. This cannot be another election where we’re worried about whether there’s gonna be fraud in the election.” Scott said Saturday during an interview on Fox News.

On Monday morning, Scott reiterated his point in a social media post, stating, “We have to pass the SAVE Act.” 

We have to PASS THE SAVE ACT, STOP EARMARKS, and BALANCE THE BUDGET to save our country! ??
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) January 26, 2026

The House approved the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, sponsored by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. However, bill is lingering in the Senate. 

The legislation requires voters to provide proof of citizenship in person in order to vote in a federal election, and requires states to remove non-citizens from voter rolls.

“I don’t know how a Democrat could be against this,” Scott added. “We don’t get to vote in another country. Why are people from another country getting to vote in our country? It’s common sense. I don’t know why all 100 senators wouldn’t be on board with this.”

The SAVE Act is about securing our elections — why would anyone opposed to that?

I’m with @BasedMikeLee, let’s get this done ASAP.
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) January 24, 2026

Democrats and liberal groups have argued that requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote creates an unnecessary barrier to voter participation.

The Senate version is sponsored by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. The legislation is aimed at preventing noncitizen voting.

Scott said he would like to see senators go on the record regarding the bill. 

“We need to have a vote. We’ll show that all Republicans are gonna support this, and hopefully, Democrats will support it, and they’ll pass,” Scott said. 

It generally takes 60 votes to get a vote on a non-spending bill in the Senate to overcome a filibuster.

Scott suggested adding the SAVE Act to a spending bill, or forcing a standalone with “a standing filibuster, whatever it’s gonna take,” to make senators speak on a filibuster. 

“We’ve got to get this passed. We’ve got to secure elections,” Scott said. 

“Let’s make everybody stay there and talk and have the standing filibuster,” Scott said. “I know it’s going to be a lot of work, but that’s what we ought to start with, and see if the Democrats want to do this.”

The post This Senator Wants to Force a Vote on Election Integrity Bill appeared first on The Daily Signal.

US Holocaust Museum condemns Walz’s comparing Minnesotans to Anne Frank
This affects the entire country.

The U.S. Holocaust Museum sharply criticized comments made by Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) in which he likened the impact of federal immigration enforcement in his state to the experiences of Anne Frank. 

The Holocaust Museum said in an X post Monday that the events in Minnesota and the systematic extermination of Jewish people in the Holocaust are inherently different.

“Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable,” the museum said in a statement. “Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.”

In a Sunday press conference, Walz dramatized the fear felt by immigrant families and children amid DHS’s Operation Metro Surge.

The federal enforcement effort has drawn national attention after the fatal shootings of ICU nurse Alex Pretti and Renee Good, both of whom were American citizens.

Walz invoked The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and said a similar story will be written about the lives of Minnesotan children. 

“Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank,” Walz said, warning that children in Minnesota were now “hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside.” 

“Somebody’s going to write that children’s story about Minnesota,” Walz said.

Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager, chronicled her life in hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands during World War II before her capture and death in a concentration camp. 

The Holocaust Museum’s mission includes confronting hatred and preventing genocide through education and remembrance of the murder of 6 million Jews and millions of other victims at the hands of Nazi Germany. 

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MESSAGING ON ICE AT ODDS WITH PUBLIC SUPPORT

During the press conference, Walz also praised Minnesotans’ protests against immigration enforcement presence and repeated his demands to President Donald Trump to terminate ICE and Border Patrol presence in the state. 

As tensions have grown, Trump said he spoke with Walz in an effort to mediate the crisis and push for cooperation between state and federal enforcement.

DHS shares obscene, threatening voicemail sent to ICE agent, blaming local pols for 'incitement'
Who's accountable for the results?

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EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security on Monday released an expletive-laden, sexually-explicit voicemail that a Minnesota-based ICE agent received from an apparent agitator amid unrest in Minneapolis.
Fox News Digital is not posting the clip due to its content, but the caller told the agent he is a fascist and that he should commit suicide.
"I hope your wife dies. I hope your mom and dad die. I hope everything wrong that could go [on] in your life happens. I hope you have the most miserable life," the caller said.
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"You are a traitor to the American people, to the values that made our country."
The caller then wishes that the agent is hit by a transit vehicle, and faces a divorce after his apparent wife cheats on him due to medical complications.
The caller then wishes that the agent be hit by a transit vehicle and face a divorce after his apparent wife cheats on him due to medical complications.
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In response, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin blamed local "sanctuary politicians" for inciting such "threatening rhetoric and unprecedented violence" through their "repeated vilification" of federal law enforcement.
She cited repeated comparisons between ICE and the Geheime Staatspolizei — the German Nazi "Gestapo" secret state police — and 1800s-era slave patrols.
"The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer," McLaughlin said.
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"Like everyone else, we just want to go home to our families at night. The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop."
McLaughlin said ICE has faced an 8,000% increase in death threats and 1,300% increase in assaults during the second Trump administration despite the fact that they are conducting operations to remove "rapists, terrorists and gang members from American neighborhoods."
She added that Secretary Kristi Noem’s message to agitators and people who threaten violence on ICE remains that "you will not stop us or slow us down."
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The agency said that assaulting and obstructing …

Florida AG ‘paging’ nursing board to revoke license of anesthesiologist who won’t treat Republicans
How is this acceptable?

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said on Monday he is “paging” the state’s nursing board so that it can revoke the license of an anesthesiologist who claimed he won’t treat “MAGA” Republicans.

Erik Martindale, a registered nurse in Florida, faced intense pushback after making the controversial post on social media.

“I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA” he wrote in the now-deleted Facebook post. “It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education. I own all of my businesses and I can refuse anyone!” Based on his profile, he graduated from the University of Miami.

Martindale later claimed his Facebook and Instagram accounts had been hacked, implying perhaps he didn’t post the anti-MAGA statement.

The Washington Examiner contacted Uthmeier’s office and the Florida Board of Nursing for comment.

The situation in which Martindale found himself is very similar to another politically divisive statement made by a separate nurse, who wished White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt would suffer a “fourth-degree tear” in childbirth.

The perinatal injury is a particularly severe laceration that extends through the anal sphincter and into the rectal lining, and it requires four to six weeks to heal. A fourth-degree tear is pretty uncommon, affecting only about 0.03% to 0.2% of pregnant women.

“I hope that you f***ing rip from bow to stern and never s*** normally again, you c***,” the labor-and-delivery nurse identified as Lexie Lawler said in a TikTok video. The original video appears to have been taken down, but it was recirculated by Libs of TikTok.

Pregnant with her second child, Leavitt is expecting a baby girl in May.

Lawler has since been fired by her employer “following a prompt review,” Baptist Health South Florida said in a statement last week. Uthmeier also called for the revocation of her medical license.

“Glad she lost her job. Now it’s time for the license!” the Republican attorney general posted on X.

Despite their respective controversies, Martindale and Lawler have both used their social media accounts to decry the latest officer-involved shooting that killed an ICU nurse in Minnesota.

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“They murdered a man in Minnesota, and you motherf***ers are coming after me because I used bad language,” Lawler said in a Facebook video. “F*** you! I’m on the right side of this. F*** you!”

Lawler has set up a GoFundMe …

Minnesota drags Trump's ICE to court in effort to pause immigration crackdown
Every delay has consequences.

Lawyers for the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota urged a federal judge on Monday to halt the Trump administration's sprawling immigration crackdown in the state, arguing that the campaign, "Operation Metro Surge," amounts to an "unlawful" and "unchecked invasion" that violates the state's sovereignty protections under the 10th Amendment.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez, a Biden appointee, ultimately adjourned court without indicating when she planned to rule on the emergency request — even as she acknowledged both the timeliness and importance of the case before her.
 "If I had a burner in front of the front burner, this would be on it," Menendez said. 
At issue in the case is an emergency lawsuit filed earlier this month seeking to end the Trump administration's deployment of some 3,000 ICE agents in Minnesota, who were sent there in recent weeks as part of the immigration crackdown.
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Lawyers for the state described the operation Monday as "essentially an army." 
They also argued that the sustained presence of ICE agents there had created an environment "so unprecedented, so intense, [that] it has created such an environment of fear," and urged the court to issue a temporary restraining order immediately to block the surge of additional ICE officers into the state.
"Not tomorrow. Not next week. Today," Lindsey Middlecamp, a lawyer for the state of Minnesota, urged the court.
The hearing also notably focused on a letter that Attorney General Pam Bondi sent to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) hours earlier, seeking access to the state's voter rolls and certain public assistance data, such as enrollment information. Bondi's letter described the three requests to the state as an effort to "help bring back law and order" to the state.
But lawyers for Minnesota disputed that in court, saying Monday that the letter was "extortionate" and amounted to a "ransom note."
Menendez pressed Justice Department lawyer Brantley Mayers for specifics on the letter in question. It "really, strongly suggests that, if the state will do three things," then "this will end," she said, referring to the ICE enforcement operation. 
"Is the executive trying to achieve a goal through force that it can’t achieve through the courts?" she asked Mayers. 
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Mayers and other DOJ lawyers declined to offer additional details on the letter. They spent their time doubling down on their assertion that …

DOJ strikes sharply different tone than DHS on death of Alex Pretti
This affects the entire country.

A senior Justice Department official struck a notably more cautious tone on Monday than the Department of Homeland Security had one day earlier over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen who was killed by a Border Patrol agent during an enforcement operation in Minnesota.

One day after the shooting of Pretti, who was armed during a physical confrontation with Customs and Border Protection agents Saturday morning, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche emphasized the need for restraint even as other Trump administration officials publicly assigned blame to Pretti and framed the shooting as necessary to stop a broader deadly attack on federal agents.

FOX & FRIENDS: Do the actions of Alex Pretti amount to domestic terrorism?

BLANCHE: Look, it's an investigation, so I'm not going to prejudge

FOX: It doesn't appear to most of the country to have met that definition

BLANCHE: I don't think anybody thinks they were comparing…
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 26, 2026

“You cannot look at a 10-second video and judge what happened,” Blanche said during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. While defending the actions of the immigration agents involved, Blanche stressed that video clips circulating online do not capture the full context of the encounter. “That’s exactly why you have to have an investigation,” he said.

Blanche notably contradicted the words of DHS officials, including Secretary Kristi Noem, who said Saturday that Pretti’s actions mirrored those of “domestic terrorism.”

“I don’t think anybody thinks they were comparing what happened Saturday to the legal definition of domestic terrorism,” Blanche said. “I’m not describing it as anything except for a tragedy.”

Following Pretti’s death on Saturday, Noem and other officials moved swiftly to condemn him, with some labeling Pretti as someone who “committed an act of domestic terrorism.”

Kristi Noem is a complete ignoramus. If getting in a scuffle with federal agents makes someone a "domestic terrorist," then January 6 must've been the biggest "terrorist attack" in American history
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) January 25, 2026

Gregory Bovino, a top official overseeing Border Patrol operations, told CNN’s State of the Union that “the suspect put himself in that situation,” adding that “the victims are the Border Patrol agents there,” as video of the shooting played onscreen.

BASH: It …

Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez snaps at Washington, declares ‘enough’ of US influence
Who benefits from this decision?

Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez said Sunday she’s had "enough" of U.S. interference in the country’s politics, delivering a sharp rebuke of Washington during a speech to oil workers broadcast on state television.
"Enough already of Washington’s orders over politicians in Venezuela," she said during an address to oil workers in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, broadcast by state-run channel Venezolana de Televisión.
"Let Venezuelan politics resolve our differences and our internal conflicts," she said. "This Republic has paid a very high price for having to confront the consequences of fascism and extremism in our country."
Rodríguez’s defiant rhetoric raises questions about how far she is willing — or able — to push back against Washington. While the Venezuelan government has long used anti-U.S. language to rally domestic support, the comments come as Caracas remains heavily constrained by U.S. sanctions and dependent on U.S. decisions over oil licenses.
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After capturing former dictator Nicolas Maduro, the Trump administration made clear they had allowed Rodríguez to stay in power in an interim capacity because they believed Washington had significant influence over her decision-making. 
Trump had said the U.S. would "run" Venezuela before backing Rodríguez. Trump spoke with Rodríguez recently by phone and earlier this month met with opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. 
"We obviously have maximum leverage over the interim authorities in Venezuela right now," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Jan. 7.
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Any decisions by the new government will "continue to be dictated by the United States of America," she said. 
It remains unclear whether Rodríguez has the political or economic leverage to translate her public defiance into policy, or whether the remarks are aimed primarily at a domestic audience wary of U.S. influence.
The White House could not be reached for comment in light of the Venezuelan leader’s most recent comments.
Earlier Saturday Rodriguez made an overture at the Venezuelan opposition to reach "agreements" on the nation’s political future and said there should be "no political or partisan differences when it comes to peace in Venezuela."
Rodríguez’s rebuke comes as the United States has moved to assert control over Venezuela’s oil resources, long a centerpiece of Caracas’ economy. In early January, the White House announced an …

White House not budging on Democrats' demands as DHS funding mutiny threatens government shutdown
Every delay has consequences.

The White House appears to be rejecting Democrats' demands in the burgeoning government funding fight, as the chances of a partial shutdown grow larger by the day.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is threatening that Democrats will vote against the massive federal spending bill set to get a vote this week unless funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is stripped out and renegotiated.
Republicans have already signaled they're not inclined to do so, which White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reaffirmed during her Monday afternoon press conference.
Leavitt also pointed out that all the bills wrapped into the massive spending package are the product of bipartisan negotiations between the House and Senate — meaning Democrats already had a say in the legislation they are now rejecting.
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"At this point, the White House supports the bipartisan work that was done to advance the bipartisan appropriations package, and we want to see that passed," President Donald Trump's spokeswoman said. 
"Policy discussions on immigration in Minnesota are happening. Look, the president is leading those discussions, as evidenced by his correspondence with Governor Walz this morning. But that should not be at the expense of government funding for the American people."
Democrats are coming out against the DHS funding bill en masse in the wake of another deadly federal law enforcement-involved shooting in Minneapolis. A Border Patrol agent shot Alex Pretti, a nurse who worked with veterans at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, during a wider protest against Trump's immigration crackdown in the city.
Both Republicans and Democrats have called for investigations into the fatal encounter, but only Democrats are threatening to put federal funding at risk.
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Leavitt pointed out that the DHS funding portion would also allocate dollars to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), not just the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spending that Democrats object to.
"We are in the midst of the storm that took place over the weekend, and many Americans are still being impacted by that. So we absolutely do not want to see that funding lapse," she said. "We want the Senate to move forward with passing the bipartisan appropriations package that was negotiated on a bipartisan basis."
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The legislation …