President Donald Trump scored a major legal win on immigration at the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday night. 
A federal judge agreed with the Trump administration that illegal aliens can be detained without bond while their immigration cases are being processed.
&#8220;Tonight our [Justice Department] attorneys secured yet another crucial legal victory in support of [President] Trump’s immigration agenda,&#8221; U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi posted to X Friday night.
 &#8220;The Fifth Circuit just held illegal aliens can rightfully be detained without bond &#8211; a significant blow against activist judges who have been undermining our efforts to make America safe again at every turn,&#8221; Bondi said. 
&#8220;We will continue vindicating President Trump’s law and order agenda in courtrooms across the country,&#8221; the AG added.
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Tonight our <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a> attorneys secured yet another crucial legal victory in support of <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> Trump’s immigration agenda.
The Fifth Circuit just held illegal aliens can rightfully be detained without bond &#8211; a significant blow against activist judges who have been…
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi/status/2019950963801350628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2026</a></blockquote>
Eric Wessan, Iowa&#8217;s Solicitor General, called the win &#8220;enormous&#8221; for the Trump administration, noting that the Fifth Circuit was the first federal court to address Trump&#8217;s expedited removal efforts.
&#8220;ENORMOUS Immigration win for President Trump,&#8221; he posted to X. &#8220;The Fifth Circuit, the first federal court to address President Trump&#8217;s expedited removal efforts, sides with the administration.&#8221;
&#8220;Illegal aliens may be detained and removed!&#8221; he emphasized.
Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, said the same in an X post. &#8220;Another big deal and seems obviously right &#8211; you can detain and hold illegal aliens rather than automatically releasing them on (insignificant) bond,&#8221; he <a href="https://x.com/ishapiro/status/2019949595925893322">said</a>.
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🚨🚨ENORMOUS Immigration win for President Trump. The Fifth Circuit, the first federal court to address President Trump&#8217;s expedited removal efforts, sides with the administration. Illegal aliens may be detained and removed! Judge Jones, joined by Duncan. Judge Douglas dissents. <a href="https://t.co/4K89hrb59T">pic.twitter.com/4K89hrb59T</a>
— Eric W. (@EWess92) <a href="https://twitter.com/EWess92/status/2019945912307507240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2026</a></blockquote>
The ruling comes in contrast with activist judges releasing illegals while their cases are being processed through a bond option. The administration says this undermines general immigration enforcement and limits its ability to detain and remove illegals who are a public safety or national security concern &#8212; a key promise of Trump&#8217;s 2024 presidential run.
Deportation of illegal aliens has been a central piece of President Trump&#8217;s second term agenda. According to a December 2025 <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/10/thanks-president-trump-and-secretary-noem-more-25-million-illegal-aliens-left-us">press release</a> from the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump administration was responsible for 2.5 million illegal aliens exiting the United States since Inauguration Day, with 605,000 having been deported and 1.9 million leaving of their own volition.
According to the Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS), there were an <a href="https://ohss.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-06/2024_0418_ohss_estimates-of-the-unauthorized-immigrant-population-residing-in-the-united-states-january-2018%25E2%2580%2593january-2022.pdf">estimated</a> 11 million illegal aliens residing in the United States as of January 2022. Pew Research <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/">estimates</a> that an &#8220;all-time high of 14 million&#8221; illegal aliens were living in the United States by 2023 &#8220;after two consecutive years of record growth&#8221; in which 3.5 million aliens entered the country under Joe Biden.
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The Trump administration has <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-federal-employees-new-category-1051bc29?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqf7iqTvvbFqrnM0mAZptIZW082-Vz-KukaIyCCCshg13pgNOeQFFK-daYhRsm0%3D&amp;gaa_ts=69861ecd&amp;gaa_sig=dJ9r9GlicztgTExktFnvxhfwuM9kUgwT0TPaLzJGidN0D4p0bSJJuXZSljOng8HLHMgXkuwo9eprnDh4W6VB7w%3D%3D">finalized a rule</a> that significantly alters the job status of approximately 50,000 high-ranking career federal employees.
Issued by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the rule creates a new classification—often referred to as “Schedule Policy/Career”—for workers in policy-determining or policy-advocating roles. This reclassification effectively strips these officials of long-standing civil service protections, transforming them into at-will employees who can be disciplined or fired without the right to appeal to an independent board.
For over a century, the U.S. civil service has functioned as a professional, non-partisan workforce. While political appointees serve at the president&#8217;s pleasure, career staff have historically been shielded from political firing to ensure institutional stability. However, the administration argues this shift is necessary to combat a &#8220;deep state&#8221; that President Trump claims undermines his agenda. OPM Director Scott Kupor defended the move, stating that while employees are entitled to personal views, they cannot act as &#8220;conscientious objectors&#8221; or engage in &#8220;sabotage&#8221; that thwarts the administration’s objectives.
The implementation is moving rapidly. Agencies have already begun identifying eligible positions, with a finalized list expected within 30 days. This will likely be followed by an executive order from the president to finalize the reclassifications. The administration maintains that these changes are merit-based and will not target employees based on their political party, though the rule specifically cites media leaks and open resistance to executive orders as grounds for discipline.
In response, a massive legal battle has intensified. On February 6, 2026, several organizations announced updated litigation strategies focusing on the regulatory mechanisms of the rule. Protect Democracy and Democracy Forward argue that the rule violates the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which was designed to prevent a return to the 19th-century &#8220;spoils system.&#8221;
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the nation’s largest federal union, is preparing a lawsuit characterizing the rule as an &#8220;unlawful ultimatum.&#8221; Furthermore, legal advocates have raised alarms over whistleblower protections; under the new rule, converted employees would report complaints to their agency&#8217;s general counsel rather than the independent U.S. Office of Special Counsel, a move critics call a clear conflict of interest.
With the rule set to take effect in early March, plaintiffs are expected to seek preliminary injunctions to freeze these changes while the courts weigh their legality.

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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) is warning Democrats that the same anti-law-enforcement instincts that fueled the post-George Floyd unrest are now being repackaged as immigration policy, as violent protests erupt once again in Minneapolis.
In a Fox News op-ed published Friday, Kennedy argued that Democratic officials who once flirted with defunding the police are now applying the same playbook to immigration enforcement, dismissing federal agents as racists, undermining the rule of law, and inviting chaos in the process. “As I’ve watched the protests in Minneapolis, it seems obvious to me that America is at risk of falling face-first into another disastrous anti-law enforcement crisis,” Kennedy wrote. 
The Louisiana Republican framed the unrest as a familiar pattern: leftist activists seize on a crisis, demonize law enforcement, and pressure Democratic officials to stand down rather than restore order. According to Kennedy, the results are always the same. 
“There are some people in this world who enjoy hurting other people and taking other people’s stuff,” he wrote. “They’re not sick. They’re not confused. They’re not mixed up. … They’re just antisocial.”
Kennedy argued that the “defund the police” movement exploited a handful of high-profile misconduct cases to push what he called a fundamentally dishonest narrative, that law enforcement officers are worse than criminals and should be replaced with social workers.
Before Floyd died in 2020, Kennedy said, such ideas were fringe, embraced primarily by radical academics and leftist activists. But Democratic leaders in Minnesota, including Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, ultimately chose to appease what Kennedy mockingly labeled the party’s “Karen wing” rather than enforce the law. “They let rioters seek revenge on law enforcement, stood by as police precincts burned and sat in silence as activists defamed the countless good cops who kept their cities safe,” he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-john-kennedy-democrats-defund-the-police-plan-failed-here-go-again">wrote</a>.
The consequences, Kennedy argued, were measurable and severe. In the wake of the Floyd riots, commercial burglaries surged by 43%, carjackings jumped 93%, and murders rose 44%, according to crime data cited in the op-ed.
Even years later, Kennedy noted, police departments have struggled to recover from the damage. Nationwide, departments remain understaffed compared to pre-2020 levels. In Minneapolis, the police force is still roughly one-third smaller than it was before Floyd’s death, despite ongoing recruitment efforts.
“Maintaining a strong police force is not a light switch you can flick on and off as the woke mob demands,” Kennedy wrote, arguing that years of demoralization drove officers out of the profession altogether.
Now, Kennedy says Democrats appear poised to repeat the same mistake, this time targeting immigration enforcement instead of local police. As federal agents move to enforce immigration laws in Minnesota, leftist activists and Democratic officials have accused ICE and Border Patrol agents of racism and “white supremacy,” rhetoric Kennedy argues is designed to delegitimize enforcement entirely. 
“Instead of arguing that cops are a bigger problem than criminals,” Kennedy wrote, “Walz and Frey have joined the Karen wing of the Democratic Party to say that enforcing immigration laws is racist and vetting migrants is a form of White supremacy.” 
Kennedy warned that activists are once again exploiting unrest in Minneapolis to pressure Congress into defunding federal law enforcement agencies, including ICE and the Border Patrol, a move he argues would repeat the same disastrous errors of the defund-the-police era.
The senator’s warning comes as Democrats increasingly frame immigration enforcement as a civil rights issue, even as violent protests and property damage accompany demonstrations against federal agents in major cities.
Democrats across the country have increasingly made immigration enforcement and reform of ICE a central part of their 2026 policy agenda, particularly in the wake of two fatal shootings of leftist protesters in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents. Party leaders in Congress, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), have tied their support for funding the Department of Homeland Security to a sweeping set of proposed changes aimed at “rein[ing] in ICE,” including requiring body cameras and visible ID for agents, restricting arrests without judicial warrants, banning enforcement near sensitive locations like schools and hospitals, and instituting uniform use-of-force standards. 
Leftist members of Congress and activists have pushed even further, with some calling for abolishing the agency outright or defunding it entirely, arguing ICE has become “beyond repair,” while Democratic strategists warn that hardline abolition language could complicate efforts to build broader support for more moderate reforms. 
For Kennedy, the lesson of the last five years is clear: undermining law enforcement does not produce justice or safety; it creates disorder. “If anyone should recognize the deep-dish stupidity of the defund-the-police movement,” he wrote, “it should be the officials who watched their cities burn the first time.”

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The Department of Justice said Friday morning that a key figure in the 2012 Benghazi attack has been brought to the United States to face justice.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said that Zubayr al-Bakoush was captured overseas and flown to the United States, arriving at Andrews Air Force Base at 3:00 a.m. Friday morning, where he was greeted by FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
“Al-Bakoush will now face American justice on American soil,” Bondi said. “We will prosecute this alleged terrorist to the fullest extent of the law.”
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NEW: Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Zubayr Al-Bakoush, a key participant in the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, was arrested and arrived in the U.S. today to face justice. <a href="https://t.co/cnC0CbVSB4">pic.twitter.com/cnC0CbVSB4</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/2019791355665347040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2026</a></blockquote>
Al-Bakoush will face several charges related to murder, terrorism, and arson for his role in the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack that led to the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, State Department information officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
“Let this case serve as a reminder: if you commit a crime against the American people anywhere in this world, President Trump&#8217;s Justice Department will find you,” Bondi said. “It might not happen overnight, but it will happen. You can run, but you can’t hide.”
The fallout from the 2012 Benghazi attack remained a major focus in U.S. political debate for years, prompting multiple congressional investigations and high-profile hearings over security failures and the Obama administration’s response under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Much of the criticism centered on Americans on the ground who waited 13 hours for help that never came.
Bondi said that even 14 years later, holding those responsible to account still matters.
“Hillary Clinton famously once said about Benghazi, &#8216;What difference at this point does it make?&#8217; Well, it makes a difference to Donald Trump,&#8221; said Bondi. &#8220;It makes a difference to those families. And fourteen years later, it makes a difference to law enforcement who made the difference in this case.”
Bondi said the families of the victims were “absolutely thrilled,” adding that they had “probably lost faith that something would happen.”
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I asked Attorney General Pam Bondi what communication looked like with victims families amid today’s major Benghazi suspect arrest.
Bondi said details were kept airtight until arrest was made but they contacted afterward. <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realdailywire</a> <a href="https://t.co/cnoEB8Yryx">pic.twitter.com/cnoEB8Yryx</a>
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“Donald Trump never forgets,” she said.
FBI Director Patel said capturing those responsible for the attack was an early priority, adding that more suspects remain at large. He noted that the Trump administration has arrested six of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives in about one year, two more than were apprehended under the Biden administration.
In 2014, American authorities arrested militia commander Ahmed Abu Khatallah in connection with the Benghazi attack. He was acquitted in 2017 of 14 charges, including murder, but convicted of four lesser terrorism-related counts and <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/ahmed-abu-khatallah-sentenced-22-years-prison-september-2012-attack-benghazi-libya">sentenced</a> to 22 years in prison. 
Al-Bakoush was first charged by a complaint in 2015, a case that remained sealed for 11 years, according to Pirro. 
“We&#8217;re here today because we have an interagency that is led by superior individuals who have one shared goal: protecting America and our lives and our future,” Patel said. “And to any others out there who wish to do harm, especially commit acts of terrorism here and around the world, this is the fate you will meet. You will not be forgotten by us. We will chase you down.”
The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group, and the FBI’s Special Flight Operations Unit were involved in the operation.
Pirro, who will prosecute al-Bakoush, said she had a close relationship with the victims&#8217; families while reporting on the attack for Fox News. She said she personally called the families to share the news after the suspect was arrested. 
“I spoke with Sean Smith’s mother, who I’ve known for years and have communicated with for years. I spoke with Tyrone Woods’ wife, widow, Dr. Dorothy Woods. I spoke with Ambassador Chris Stevens’ family, as well as Glen Doherty’s brother, Greg, as well as his widow. These were people who never expected that justice would be coming.”

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Friday that any new U.S. nuclear treaty must reflect the rapid expansion of China&#8217;s nuclear arsenal. 
Rubio’s comments come a day after the New START Treaty, which limited deployed strategic nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia, officially expired. He argued that any replacement framework should address a new era beyond the Cold War model, one that recognized both Russia and China as nuclear peers. 
“A treaty requires at least two parties, and the choice before the United States was to bind itself unilaterally or to recognize that a new era requires a new approach. Not the same old START, but something new. A treaty that reflects that the United States could soon face not one, but two, nuclear peers in Russia and China,” he <a href="https://statedept.substack.com/p/the-next-era-of-nuclear-arms-control">wrote</a> on the State Department’s Substack page. 
Rubio said China&#8217;s nuclear stockpile has nearly tripled since 2020, growing from the low 200s to almost 600, with projections topping 1,000 warheads by 2030. 
“China’s rapid and opaque expansion of its nuclear arsenal since New START entered into force has rendered past models of arms control, based upon bilateral agreements between the United States and Russia, obsolete,” Rubio wrote. “An arms control arrangement that does not account for China’s build-up, which Russia is supporting, will undoubtedly leave the United States and our allies less safe.”
President Donald Trump has accused China of conducting secret nuclear tests. Under Secretary of State Thomas DiNanno <a href="https://x.com/UnderSecT/status/2019714341344362507">said</a> Friday on X that China had used a technique called &#8220;decoupling&#8221; to mask nuclear explosive tests by reducing the effectiveness of seismic monitoring, including one conducted on June 22, 2020.
Rubio also criticized Russia, noting that Moscow announced in 2023, amid its war with Ukraine, that it would stop recognizing the New START Treaty. Although Russia later said it would continue observing the treaty&#8217;s limits, the agreement capped deployed nuclear warheads at 1,550. 
“Russia and China should not expect the United States to stand still while they shirk their obligations and expand their nuclear forces. We will maintain a robust, credible, and modernized nuclear deterrent,” Rubio wrote. “But we will do so while pursuing all avenues to fulfill the President’s genuine desire for a world with fewer of these awful weapons.”
Ahead of New START’s expiration, President Donald Trump said he wanted a broader nuclear agreement that could include other countries like China. In a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116019511106186158">post</a> on Thursday, Trump criticized the Obama-era deal as poorly negotiated.
“Rather than extend ‘NEW START’ (A badly negotiated deal by the United States that, aside from everything else, is being grossly violated), we should have our Nuclear Experts work on a new, improved, and modernized Treaty that can last long into the future,” Trump wrote.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday highlighted new crime statistics showing a historic drop in violent crime nationwide, arguing the data vindicates President Donald Trump’s law-and-order agenda just one year into his return to office.
Citing figures compiled by the Council on Criminal Justice, Leavitt said the national murder rate fell in 2025 to its lowest level since 1900, a decline she credited to expanded federal law enforcement activity, border security, and the administration’s focus on removing violent criminal illegal aliens from American communities.
“This dramatic decline is what happens when a president secures the border, fully mobilizes federal law enforcement to arrest violent criminals, and aggressively deports the worst of the worst illegal aliens from our country,” Leavitt said during Thursday’s press briefing. “The numbers don’t lie.”
Leavitt pointed to a sharp increase in federal arrests under the Trump administration, saying the FBI doubled its violent crime arrests in 2025 compared to the previous year. She said more than 67,000 arrests have been made since Trump’s inauguration, which the administration says represents a 197% increase over the same time period under the Biden administration.
According to Leavitt, the FBI has also significantly expanded its operations against organized crime, disrupting 1,800 gangs and criminal enterprises nationwide, a 210% increase from the year prior. “The FBI has arrested 1,700 child predators and more than 300 human traffickers across the country,” Leavitt said. “Since President Trump took office, six of the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives have been captured right here in our nation’s capital.”
Leavitt further highlighted crime reductions in Washington, D.C., following Trump’s decision last summer to nationalize the city’s police force and deploy hundreds of federal agents and National Guard troops to the district. While the move drew fierce criticism from Democrats and civil liberties groups at the time, the administration now says the results speak for themselves.
“As of last week, D.C. homicides were down 62%,” Leavitt said. She added that motor vehicle theft had dropped by 53% and that 2025 recorded the fewest violent gun crimes of any year in available data for the nation’s capital. More than 2,000 arrests have been made since the federal takeover, Leavitt said, noting that National Guard members remain deployed in the city as part of the administration’s continued crime suppression efforts.
The Trump administration has pursued similar enforcement strategies in other major cities, including Memphis, Tennessee, where federal agents and National Guard troops were deployed with the support of state and local officials.
Leavitt said nearly 5,600 arrests have been made in Memphis since the deployment began. “As of last week, aggravated assaults are down 53%, sexual assaults are down 53%, and robberies are down 70%,” she said.
Leavitt framed the administration’s broader crime strategy as inseparable from its immigration enforcement priorities, emphasizing the removal of criminal illegal aliens as a central pillar of public safety policy. The administration has repeatedly described its enforcement focus as targeting “the worst of the worst” offenders, deploying federal resources to cities where local leadership has struggled to contain violent crime.
While Democrats have accused Trump of overreach and politicizing federal law enforcement, the White House has leaned heavily into the crime statistics as evidence that its approach is working, particularly in cities long governed by left-wing leadership. Leavitt said the administration intends to continue expanding federal law enforcement operations in high-crime areas. 
“This is what tough, unapologetic law enforcement looks like,” she said. “And it’s saving lives.”
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s electoral success last year is producing downstream effects on Democrats in the Empire State.
New York’s 17th District has a crowded field of Democrats vying to challenge GOP Rep. Mike Lawler, who is fighting for a third term in one of the most <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/house/race/483656">competitive</a> districts in the country. In order to survive a primary, Democratic candidates are struggling to balance between the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-tail-wagging-the-dog-progressives-dominate-democratic-politics-in-maine-and-beyond">influence</a> Mamdani and his socialist politics have had on the Democratic Party and the moderate appetites of general election voters.
Army combat veteran Cait Conley and Rockland County lawmaker Beth Davidson are <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2026/01/06/the-super-self-funder-in-ny-17-00712041">reputedly</a> the establishment picks of NY-17’s Democratic primary. Both were the only candidates invited from the district to attend a “candidate week” for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in November.
Conley and Davidson are facing a strong outside challenge from Briarcliff Manor Deputy Mayor Peter Chatzky, who made his fortune as founder and CEO of the small tech company Napa Group LLC. Chatzky is already one of the best-funded candidates in the country after <a href="https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/07/ny-17-democrat-peter-chatzky-puts-up-own-money-in-crowded-primary-for-mike-lawler-seat/88050267007/">loaning</a> his campaign nearly $6 million.
Those three candidates and a handful of others are still collecting signatures to qualify for the Democratic primary scheduled for June 23. Ahead of the primary ballot being finalized, candidates have taken steps to avoid alienating the far-Left of the Democratic base on issues such as defunding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a broadly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/polls-deliver-clear-verdict-americans-back-trumps-deportation-agenda-reject-anti-ice-politics?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Polls+Deliver+Clear+Verdict%3A+Americans+Back+Trump%E2%80%99s+Deportation+Agenda%2C+Reject+Anti-ICE+Politics">unpopular</a> stance.
The self-funded Chatzky, who claims to be a “pragmatic progressive,” <a href="https://x.com/peterchatzky/status/2015532998800613595">said</a> in a video last month that “it is time to abolish ICE.” His <a href="https://chatzkyforcongress.com/#priorities">website</a> also touts his support for “universal health insurance” and “universal pre-K.” His campaign site additionally contains a nod to the progressive values of “Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity.”
On all those issues and more, Chatzky’s platform overlaps with Mamdani. The New York City mayor’s endorsement has come up as somewhat of a litmus test for NY-17 Democrats, with none of them outright rejecting his potential support. In a sign of Mamdani’s direct influence on New York politics, Chatzky has also <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/01/26/us-news/ny-dem-hopefuls-who-dodged-publicly-aligning-with-mamdani-now-welcome-backing/">said</a> that he would “probably” accept an endorsement from Mamdani after previously dodging questions related to the self-described “Democratic socialist.”
“He’s energetic. He ran a very impressive campaign,” said Chatzky late last month. “He focused on affordability. It’s a problem in [Lawler’s] district as well.”
Davidson, in her position as a legislator, is attempting to make Rockland County a sanctuary region that would offer some amount of protection for illegal aliens. Davidson is pushing a piece of legislation that she calls the “Our Safety and Dignity for All Act,” which would restrict how local law enforcement and other government workers cooperate with federal immigration officers.
Davidson has become one of the leading faces of the push in Rockland County, which sits inside NY-17, to limit federal immigration enforcement. She has <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/rockland-county-ice-enforcement-safety-and-dignity-for-all-act/">pointed</a> to the recent clashes involving immigration officers in Minneapolis as the spark for the new law.
“The Safety and Dignity Act is intended to address those concerns while honoring state and federal and judicial warrants and following the law,” said Davidson this week.
She also gave a <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-safety-and-dignity-for-all-act-and-what-it/id1598985733?i=1000747782362">nod</a> to Mamdani in a recent podcast episode, highlighting the New York City mayor&#8217;s focus on “affordability” during his mayoral campaign as a central focus for her race as well.
But she has also kept her distance from Mamdani in what could be a tacit admission that Mamdani’s far-Left politics may not play well in the swing district of NY-17.
“I’m not seeking endorsements from elected officials from New York City,” said Davidson last month. She did not reject the possibility of an endorsement from the New York City mayor, however.
Conley has taken a similar line on a potential Mamdani endorsement: not seeking it, but not rejecting the democratic socialist, either. When asked last week whether she would welcome an endorsement from Mamdani, Conley said, &#8220;I think New York City is different than the Hudson Valley.”
She went on to state that she seeks to emulate parts of Mamdani’s campaign, however, such as his “young energy.”
“I respect what I believe Mamdani represents to so many people here in New York City, which is new leadership, which is young energy that isn’t afraid to tackle hard problems,” said Conley in an interview on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnAJP6pWYHI&amp;t=433s">PIX11</a>.
In the same interview, she appeared to struggle to answer a question on whether ICE should be defunded. When pressed, Conley said “abuses should be abolished” and ICE leadership held accountable. The Democratic candidate insisted that the focus on ICE is misplaced and that the real issue is executive branch accountability. She did not condemn calls within her party to abolish the agency.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday officially launched the federal government&#8217;s highly anticipated direct-to-consumer medication website called TrumpRx.
The site, which Trump lauded as a major win for his administration, will give Americans access to big discounts on popular and high-priced medicines. Now, consumers can pay low prices that are comparable to those in other developed nations, keeping in line with the Trump Most-Favored Nation policy.
&#8220;America was being overcharged for medicine. The same drugs, made in the same factories, at the same dosages, are costing Americans up to 1,000% more than in any other country,&#8221; the live <a href="https://trumprx.gov/">TrumpRx site</a> reads. &#8220;This is unacceptable.&#8221;
&#8220;Starting tonight, dozens of the most commonly used prescription drugs will be available at dramatic discounts for all consumers throughout our new website, it&#8217;s called TrumpRx.gov,&#8221; the president announced at Thursday&#8217;s launch.
&#8220;For years, politicians from both parties have promised to bring down prescription drug prices and make health care more affordable, but they all failed. It was all words, as usual,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But I&#8217;m actually getting it done; it is done, actually.&#8221;
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🚨 <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;Starting tonight, dozens of the most commonly-used prescription drugs will be available at dramatic discounts for all consumers throughout a new website: <a href="https://t.co/QSJ4wskHM1">https://t.co/QSJ4wskHM1</a>.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/tB9FdIZMWZ">pic.twitter.com/tB9FdIZMWZ</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/2019566096836366586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2026</a></blockquote>
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According to the White House, Trump was able to make deals with major companies like AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, EMD Serono, Novo Nordisk, and Pfizer to get the lower drug prices for Americans.
&#8220;Additional drugs from other companies that have signed MFN pricing deals will be made available through TrumpRx.gov in the coming months,&#8221; a press release said, adding, &#8220;Depending on the manufacturer of a given drug, patients with valid prescriptions will be able to access savings through user-friendly coupons that can be printed or downloaded onto their phones or through channels set up by the manufacturer and integrated into TrumpRx.gov.&#8221;
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A White House fact-sheet sent to The Daily Wire listed the following examples of reduced-price medications:
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<li>The monthly prices of Ozempic and injectable Wegovy will fall from $1,028 and $1,349, respectively, to an average price of $350 and as low as $199, depending on dosage strength.</li>
<li>The monthly price of the Wegovy pill will fall from $1,349 to as low as $149, depending on dosage strength.</li>
<li>The monthly price of Zepbound will fall from $1,088 to an average price of $346 and as low as $299, depending on dosage strength.</li>
<li>Gonal-F, one of the most commonly-used fertility drugs, will see its price reduced to as low as $168 per pen, depending on dosage strength.</li>
<li>The price of Cetrotide, another commonly used fertility medicine, will drop from $316 to $22.50.</li>
<li>The price of Ovidrel will fall from $251 to $84.</li>
<li>Bevespi Aerosphere, an inhaler used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), will be discounted from $458 to $51.</li>
<li>Airsupra, an inhaler used to treat asthma symptoms and attacks, will see a price drop from $504 to $201.</li>
<li>Eucrisa, a topical ointment for atopic dermatitis, will be discounted from $792 to $158.</li>
<li>Insulin Lispro will be available for as low as $25 per month.</li>
<li>Duavee, a medication used to treat hot flashes and osteoporosis, will see its price cut from $202 to $30.</li>
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America&#8217;s HealthShare (AHS), a popular health sharing ministry, praised the development from the administration.
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“America&#8217;s healthcare system is broken, and people are simply paying too much for medicine and hospital visits. America’s HealthShare enthusiastically supports the effort to offer working families and elderly people on fixed incomes access to more affordable prescription drugs,&#8221; America’s HealthShare President David Lejeune said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Our law and policy makers can and should work with this Administration, in bipartisan fashion, to address long-term solutions to America’s healthcare system,&#8221; he added. &#8220;At America&#8217;s HealthShare, we are proud to support the Make America Healthy Again movement by restoring freedom and accountability in healthcare through an innovative approach.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumprx-trump-scores-significantly-lower-prices-for-popular-weight-loss-drugs">TrumpRx: Trump Scores Significantly Lower Prices For Popular Weight Loss Drugs</a>
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took a swing at liberal media network MS NOW — referring to it by its previous name, MSNBC — prompting laughs from Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) along with several others in Thursday&#8217;s Senate Banking Committee hearing.
Bessent was taking questions from the committee on the economy during President Donald Trump&#8217;s first year in office, and he made the argument that public sentiment — and consumer confidence — could easily be influenced by dishonest media narratives.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorRicketts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorRicketts</a>: &#8220;What more could we be doing in the Senate…to be able to help out with confidence…of consumers&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/SecScottBessent?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecScottBessent</a>: &#8220;Other than telling consumers to turn off MSNBC…it is a survey problem, where Democrats vote very low and Republicans are more realistic.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/HgwM2YULv5">pic.twitter.com/HgwM2YULv5</a>
— CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/2019465329676808367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) noted that consumer confidence did not appear to match the numbers coming from recent economic reports — and asked Bessent to identify where the disconnect might be and explain what could be done to bring people around.
&#8220;Despite all this progress, we&#8217;re seeing consumer confidence is not really rebounding the way that the economy seems to be,&#8221; Ricketts said. &#8220;In your opinion, what more can we in the Senate be doing with regard to consumer confidence and, you know, obviously, we had 40-year high inflation under the Biden administration. What more could we be doing in the Senate … to be able to help out with confidence … of consumers?&#8221;
&#8220;Other than telling consumers to turn off MSNBC,&#8221; Bessent began, prompting several loud laughs. &#8220;A large part of it is a survey problem, where Democrats vote very low and Republicans are more realistic, and then we end up — what we are seeing —&#8221;
Scott interrupted them to explain that the time had expired for Senator Ricketts and it was time to move on with the hearing.
&#8220;I appreciate your comments, believe me,&#8221; Scott said to Bessent with a chuckle.
Bessent also sparred with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who asked him during Thursday&#8217;s hearing whether he agreed with President Donald Trump about the &#8220;affordability crisis&#8221; being a &#8220;hoax.&#8221;
Bessent carefully explained — more than once — that the Trump administration&#8217;s position was not that the affordability crisis was a hoax. He argued instead that the &#8220;hoax&#8221; was a reference to Democrat efforts to spin a real crisis of their own making — during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration — as something brand new that was wholly created and owned by President Trump.

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Joy Behar strained the imagination with her latest comparison, claiming on &#8220;The View&#8221; that ousted CNN anchor Don Lemon was just like the late World War II General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Behar recalled Eisenhower&#8217;s efforts to document the atrocities of the concentration camps — and then claimed that when Lemon shadowed protesters as they stormed a church in Minneapolis, he was simply making a similar effort to preserve history.
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Joy Behar equates Don Lemon going into that St. Paul church to Eisenhower bringing in journalists to witness concentration camps:
JOY BEHAR: So, i mean, all I can say is its in the Constitution, the right to protest; and he wasn&#8217;t even there protesting. He was there as a… <a href="https://t.co/ZMKoLS2980">pic.twitter.com/ZMKoLS2980</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2018738088642531537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So, I mean, all I can say is it&#8217;s in the Constitution, the right to protest,&#8221; Behar began, making no mention of the rights of the churchgoers to practice their religion without fear of intimidation and threats. She then pivoted to argue that Lemon — who was captured on video discussing the protest plans with one of the organizers before entering the church — was not there to protest anyway.
&#8220;And he wasn&#8217;t even there protesting. He was there as a journalist,&#8221; she insisted.
&#8220;Correct,&#8221; cohost Sunny Hostin agreed.
&#8220;And I think they want to use him as some kind of an example to intimidate other journalists,&#8221; Behar added, parroting the exact claim made by Lemon after he was arrested in connection with the protest.
&#8220;But, you know, I was reading something the other day about World War II, when the Americans liberated Dachau, after World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower said take pictures of these concentration camps because years will go by and people will not believe this happened,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;So, this administration does not really like somebody like Don Lemon who has a camera, who has a position like we do in a way to speak to the people and tell them what really is going on.&#8221;
But Behar did not explain how Lemon&#8217;s video of protesters disrupting a church service aligned with the photos taken of Jewish Holocaust victims at Eisenhower&#8217;s behest.
&#8220;So, you know, God bless Dwight D. Eisenhower and Don Lemon,&#8221; she concluded.
Critics were not impressed with Behar&#8217;s conclusion, however.
&#8220;In one of the most tortured Holocaust metaphors in modern history, @ABC News&#8217; employee Joy Behar suggests that Don Lemon breaking up a church service is like Eisenhower sending in journalists to witness concentration camps. In her metaphor, church attendees &#8230; are the Nazis,&#8221; Matt Whitlock <a href="https://x.com/MattWhitlock/status/2019063576883761276">observed</a>.
&#8220;The hottest take yet is that Cities Church in St. Paul is basically another Dachau,&#8221; Jerry Dunleavy <a href="https://x.com/JerryDunleavy/status/2019080949057663303">added</a>.
And <a href="https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/2019084337619099840">from</a> Chuck Ross, &#8220;ABC&#8217;s Joy Behar literally comparing Nazi concentration camps to a church where an ICE employee serves as an associate pastor.&#8221;
&#8220;What exactly does Joy Behar think was going on inside Cities Church?!&#8221; Jorge Bonilla <a href="https://x.com/BonillaJL/status/2018750802223935841">said</a>.

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A migrant trucker who was waved across the border by the Biden administration allegedly killed four people in a devastating head-on crash in Indiana on Tuesday, The Daily Wire has learned.
Bekzhan Beishekeev, 30, who hails from Kyrgyzstan, crossed the border using the Biden-era CBP One cell phone app, the Department of Homeland Security said. He later obtained a Pennsylvania-issued commercial driver&#8217;s license, allowing him to drive trucks. According to the Department of Homeland Security, he is an illegal alien.
“Not only was Bekzhan Beishekeev released into our country by the Biden administration using the CBP One app, but he was also given a commercial driver’s license by [Democratic] Governor [Josh] Shapiro’s Pennsylvania. These decisions have had deadly consequences and led to the death of four innocent people in Indiana on Tuesday,” Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Thursday.
The CBP One app, which the Biden administration used to allow roughly 900,000 migrants to enter the United States, was terminated by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day. Trump later converted the app into a platform to schedule self-deportations.
“It is incredibly dangerous for illegal aliens, who often don’t know our traffic laws or even English, to be operating semi-trucks on America’s roads. These sanctuary governors must stop giving illegal aliens commercial driver’s licenses before another American gets killed,&#8221; McLaughlin added.
Beishekeev failed to stop for another slowed semi-trailer in Jay County, Indiana, swerving into opposing traffic and hitting a van head-on, <a href="https://www.wane.com/top-stories/isp-investigates-multi-car-crash-in-jay-county-that-killed-3/amp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to local news outlet WANE.
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NEW: DHS confirms to <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> that the truck driver who allegedly killed four people on an Indiana road Tuesday crossed the border using the Biden-era CBP One cell phone app.
Bekzhan Beishekeev, a 30-year-old national of Kyrgyzstan, was later issued a Commercial Driver&#8217;s… <a href="https://t.co/OlQygQ5VVe">pic.twitter.com/OlQygQ5VVe</a>
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennieSTaer/status/2019469497229287689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Pennsylvania has infamously handed out commercial driver&#8217;s licenses to illegal immigrants, drawing criticism from the Trump administration.
One of the recipients of a Pennsylvania commercial driver&#8217;s license was Uzbek national Akhror Bozorov, who was released into the country under the Biden administration after crossing illegally and was wanted in his home country for &#8220;distributing terrorist propaganda calling for jihad online and recruiting terrorists to join the jihad movement,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/11/17/ice-arrests-uzbekistan-criminal-illegal-alien-and-wanted-terrorist-driving-18" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to DHS.
The Trump administration has already threatened to withhold $75 million in federal funds from Pennsylvania if it fails to revoke the commercial driver&#8217;s licenses of illegal immigrants.
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FOUR PEOPLE KILLED BY ILLEGAL ALIEN SEMI-TRUCK DRIVER.
On February 3, Bekzhan Beishekeev, an illegal alien from Kyrgyzstan, was traveling on an Indiana highway when he allegedly failed to brake for a slowed semi-truck in front of him. Police say he swerved into the westbound… <a href="https://t.co/RA3zgZ2kHm">pic.twitter.com/RA3zgZ2kHm</a>
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/2019470998546825371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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In response to a string of crashes involving illegal immigrant truckers, ICE conducted vehicle stops in Indiana, where authorities nabbed 146 illegal immigrant truck drivers, DHS <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/30/secretary-noem-highlights-more-140-illegal-alien-truck-drivers-arrested-during" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in October.
Beishekeev is now in ICE custody after local authorities in Indiana honored their detainer. He will now fight his deportation in immigration court.
The victims of the crash have been identified as 50-year-old Henry Eicher, 25-year-old Menno Eicher, 19-year-old Paul Eicher, and 23-year-old Simon Girod, according to WANE. They were reportedly members of the Amish community.
Donald Stipp, 55, who was driving the van, remains in the hospital and was in stable condition after undergoing surgery on his left arm.

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Negotiations on potential restrictions for federal immigration enforcement are already off to a rocky start in Congress, as they face a Feb. 13 deadline or a lapse in funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
On Wednesday night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) released their list of ten requests: “targeted enforcement,&#8221; ending of masking for officers, more public identification of authorities, “body cameras for accountability,” use of force restrictions, and greater “state and local coordination and oversight” are among the asks. Much of the funding for the administration&#8217;s goals on immigration was already approved in the &#8220;One Big Beautiful Bill Act&#8221; last year, but Democrats are hoping to use the recent tensions as leverage to shift policy – as DHS also holds other key agencies that are not immigration-related, including FEMA and TSA.
Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), who’s considered a key negotiator in the Senate, slammed some of the suggestions as outlandish.
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NEWS — Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries release 10 policy demands in ICE funding fight, in letter to GOP leaders: <a href="https://t.co/M3cInciKYT">pic.twitter.com/M3cInciKYT</a>
— Stephen Neukam (@stephen_neukam) <a href="https://twitter.com/stephen_neukam/status/2019236836636500411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
“Democrats’ newest proposal is a ridiculous Christmas list of demands for the press. This is NOT negotiating in good faith, and it’s NOT what the American people want,” Britt posted to X on Wednesday.
“They continue to play politics to their radical base at the expense of the safety of Americans,” she added. “DHS, FEMA, Secret Service, and the Coast Guard run out of money in 9 days. Democrats don’t seem to care one bit.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) also brushed off the demands made by Democratic leadership.
“It’s totally unrealistic, their demand list went from 3 items to 10 items,” Thune told <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2019431486307406008?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. “It just shows you they’re not serious. There’s a bunch of stuff in there that’s a non-starter, and they know it. Maybe they had to put it in there to satisfy MoveOn or some of their left-wing special interest groups.”
The original requests included a move away from administrative warrants to judicial warrants for arrests, no more roving patrols, an end to masking for officers, and more rules as it pertains to how force is used. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-democrats-could-cripple-ice-without-defunding-dhs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported that a change in the type of warrants used could make some immigration arrests exceedingly difficult.
The government dealt with a brief shutdown that ended Tuesday, as the House had to go back and pass amended appropriations bills after the White House and Senate Democrats agreed to split DHS funding from the rest of the federal government’s funding.
The push for the funding split came after the Alex Pretti shooting in Minneapolis, which resulted in numerous other changes made in how the Trump administration approached the end of Operation Metro Surge in the region, leading to the arrests of thousands of people in the country illegally. White House Border Czar Tom Homan announced on Wednesday that 700 agents are headed out as part of a “drawdown” effort.
“We currently have an unprecedented number of counties communicating with us now and allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens before they hit the streets, unprecedented cooperation. And I’ll say it again, this is efficient, it requires only one or two officers to assume custody of a criminal alien target rather than eight or ten officers going into the community and arresting that public safety threat,” Homan said, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homan-strikes-deal-in-minnesota-yanks-hundreds-of-immigration-officers?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Homan+Strikes+Deal+In+Minnesota%2C+Yanks+Hundreds+Of+Immigration+Officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“More officers taking custody of criminal aliens directly from the jails means less officers on the street doing criminal operations. This is smart law enforcement, not less law enforcement. This is safer for the community, safer for the officers, and safer for the alien,” he said.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-mass-deportation-campaign-could-use-softer-touch-after-minneapolis-shootings?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Says+Mass+Deportation+Campaign+Could+Use+%E2%80%98Softer+Touch%E2%80%99+After+Minneapolis+Shootings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Donald Trump</a> told NBC News on Wednesday night that he “learned that maybe we can use a little bit of a softer touch” after the sky-high tensions in Minneapolis amid anti-ICE protests.
“But you still have to be tough. These are criminals. We’re dealing with really hard criminals,” he added.

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