A plan to avert a partial government shutdown backed by President Donald Trump is heading for a House-wide vote on Tuesday.

The House Rules Committee, the final gatekeeper before legislation hits the House of Representatives chamber, advanced the bill along party lines on Monday evening. 

Tuesday is expected to first see a vote to allow for lawmakers to debate the bill, known as a "rule vote," followed by a chamber-wide vote on the legislation itself later in the afternoon.

It's a major test for Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as they seek to corral a House GOP conference that's been exceptionally fractured on the subject of government funding.

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The bill is a continuing resolution (CR), which is a rough extension of fiscal 2024 funding levels to keep the government open through the start of fiscal 2026 on Oct. 1.

Republicans are largely expected to shoulder the bill alone in the House, despite a significant number of GOP lawmakers who would normally be opposed to extending Biden administration-era funding levels. 

Democrats have outnumbered Republicans in anti-government shutdown votes in recent years, but this time their opposition to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has many left-wing lawmakers signaling their opposition.

But what's lending optimism to Johnson allies is the fact that two of the measure's most vocal backers are the senior-most members of the hawkish House Freedom Caucus.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, the group's policy chair, told Fox News Digital on Monday morning that a key part of conservatives' pitch to fellow fiscal hawks is that Trump will likely still move to spend less money than the CR appropriates, including funding that he's already blocked by executive order.

"Step 1 is the CR freezes spending, guys, that's a win; No. 2, no earmarks; No. 3, no giant omnibus; No. 4, we believe the president can impound," Roy said of his pitch.

Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris, R-Md., cited Republicans' near-uniform vote on their Trump-backed federal budget bill last month.

"There were a lot of people in Washington who said we would never pass a debt ceiling increase with only Republican votes, and we did in the House," Harris said. "I think, similarly, there's some people who, including some of the Democrats, who think, 'Well, they're going to have to come to us, because they can never pass a continuing resolution with only Republican votes.' And I think we're going to see the same result [Tuesday]."

But with razor-thin margins, Johnson can afford precious little dissent to still pass the bill on party lines.

At least one Republican is already opposed: Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a staunch Johnson critic, wrote on X late Sunday, "Unless I get a lobotomy Monday that causes me to forget what I’ve witnessed the past 12 years, I’ll be a NO on the CR this week. It amazes me that my colleagues and many of the public fall for the lie that we will fight another day."

The 99-page legislation was released over the weekend.

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The bill allocates an additional $8 billion in defense spending to mitigate national security hawks' concerns, while non-defense spending that Congress annually appropriates would decrease by about $13 billion.

There are also some added funds to help facilitate Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operations.

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

It allows Republican leaders to claim a win on no meaningful government spending increases over fiscal 2025.

Oregon's governor has signed a proclamation that will make March 10 "Abortion Provider Appreciation Day," in an effort to reaffirm her administration's commitment to "maintaining access to abortion care across the state."

"Here in Oregon, we understand that abortion is healthcare, and providers are appreciated and can continue to provide care without interference and intimidation," Governor Tina Kotek said in a statement. "To our providers and to the patients who live in Oregon or have been forced to retreat to our state for care, know that I continue to have your back."

Immediately following the November election, officials said Kotek directed the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to partner with OHSU to replace the state's three-year supply of Mifepristone — a medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over 20 years ago for use in miscarriage management and to end a pregnancy.

The governor said she continues to work with providers and the OHA to monitor and identify ways to mitigate federal threats to reproductive care.

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"Oregon leads the nation with the strongest protections to access reproductive health care, including abortion. In these uncertain times, I’ll safeguard our values," Kotek wrote in a post on X.

Oregon Senate Republicans shared their reaction to Kotek's declaration and slammed the governor for focusing on "abortion provider appreciation" over fixing other issues in the state.

"Fix crime? Fix schools? Fix affordability? Nah… Kotek declares ‘Abortion Provider Appreciation Day’ instead," the group wrote in post on X with a meme attached.

In 2023, Kotek signed the Access to Reproductive Health Care law, House Bill 2002. The bill protects access to reproductive healthcare and provides state funding to support the work of community organizations and clinical partners to ensure that people across the state have broader access to the reproductive healthcare they need.

The bill also allows minors to undergo sex reassignment surgery or obtain an abortion without their parent’s permission.

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Justin Hwang, chairman of the Oregon Republican Party, previously said, "HB 2002 is what happens when progressive politicians and their far-left base put woke ideology ahead of common sense."

"This bill represents a new low for Oregon and an even bigger loss for children and parents," Hwang told Fox News Digital. "Imagine being a father or mother who finds out that their child has made a life-changing decision without any consent or notification."

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According to the governor's office, reproductive health equity is a long-time priority of Kotek, both from her time as speaker of the Oregon House and during her tenure as governor.

The Pro-Life group "Oregon Right to Life" reacted to the governor's proclamation and said they would not be supporting the measure.

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"You may have heard it's Abortion Provider Appreciation Day—but we're not celebrating abortion. We're honoring a brave former abortion worker who chose to walk away from the industry," the organization wrote in a post on X.

According to Oregon Health Authority data, of the 10,075 abortions provided in Oregon in 2023, 1,661 were patients who reside out-of-state, reflecting a nearly 60% increase from the prior year.

Fox News Digital's Bradford Betz contributed to this report. 

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem swore in Sean Curran on Monday to serve as the director of the U.S. Secret Service.

The swearing-in ceremony took place in the Oval Office, where President Donald Trump and Noem joined Curran.

"Sean’s brave actions when he risked his life to help save President Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania is a testament to his dedication to the mission of the US Secret Service," Noem said in a statement. "With his decades of experience, he will return the Secret Service to focusing on its core mission: protecting American leaders and the U.S. financial system."

"I look forward to working alongside Sean to ensure that the Secret Service is stronger than ever before," she added.

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Curran was among the group of agents who rushed to the stage to shield Trump with their bodies during a failed assassination attempt on July 13 in Butler that left two dead and the candidate with an injury to his ear.

Curran appeared next to Trump in a series of photos showing the former and future president returning to his feet, blood running down his face and raising a fist, prompting cheers from the audience.

Three bystanders were shot. They were firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, who died from his injuries, David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, both of whom survived.

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In the aftermath, Trump praised the members of his personal detail and defended them from criticism.

"Trump wanted someone he could trust, and they clearly have formed a bond after Pennsylvania," former Secret Service agent Bill Gage said in January.

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"Even with all of the mistakes in Butler, the mistakes were from the advance team. The agents assigned to Trump and Curran performed exactly as trained."

Curran maintains a low profile but is often pictured at Trump's side. 

He even has fans on TikTok.

The attempt on Trump's life led to intense scrutiny of the U.S. Secret Service and the resignation of Director Kimberly Cheatle.

Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.

The House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at cracking down on Mexican cartels' use of tunnels underneath the southwestern border to smuggle illegal immigrants and illicit items the U.S.

The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in a 402 to 1 vote – with the lone dissenter being Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. Fox News Digital reached out to her office for comment but did not immediately hear back.

The bill is led by Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., but enjoys bipartisan support thanks to its lone Democratic co-sponsor, Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif.

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It's also backed by six other House Republicans, including Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee's subcommittee on border security.

The legislation, titled the Subterranean Border Defense Act, would direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to submit an annual report to Congress about cartels' use of tunnels and how U.S. law enforcement was looking to combat it.

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"Since 1990, officials have discovered more than 140 tunnels that have breached the U.S. border with an 80% increase in tunnel activity occurring since 2008," Crane said during debate on the bill. "With border crossings thankfully going down since January, I think it's safe to assume this will drive threats to our border underground through these tunnels."

Debate on the bill was brief on Monday afternoon, lasting less than 10 minutes. Just Correa and Crane spoke, with no lawmakers rising to oppose the bill.

"I believe this bill is an important step in the right direction," Correa said.

He said the legislation if passed "will improve Congress' efforts to counter illicit cross-border tunnels and hold bad actors accountable."

It's a rare show of bipartisanship in today's House of Representatives, with Crane being known as one of the most conservative members of the House GOP.

House leaders held the vote under suspension of the rules, meaning the legislation was fast-tracked to a final House-wide vote in exchange for raising the threshold for passage from a simple majority to two-thirds.

It's what House GOP leaders have done for critical legislation that is expected to receive wide bipartisan support.

The Senate confirmed former Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to head the Department of Labor, marking the completion of President Donald Trump's Cabinet.

Chavez-DeRemer was confirmed by the Senate with bipartisan support in a 67-32 vote on Monday evening. Three Republicans, Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ted Budd, R-N.C., voted against Chavez-DeRemer's confirmation.

"The American people demand and deserve change after four years of economic heartache under the ‘most pro-union administration in American history.’ Unfortunately, Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s record pushing policies that force hardworking Americans into union membership suggests more of the same," McConnell said in a statement. 

Paul has consistently opposed Chavez-DeRemer's nomination over her past support for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, voting against the motion to proceed her nomination to a final Senate vote. 

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However, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said that Chavez-DeRemer is "committed to this mission and ready to work with the HELP Committee to secure a better future for all workers."

"The Biden administration used its authority as a weapon against workers, threatening their ability to earn a living and provide for their families. With President Trump back in office, we have an opportunity to enact a pro-America agenda at the Department of Labor that puts workers first," Cassidy said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.

Chavez-DeRemer has received support from Democratic senators throughout her confirmation process, including from Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., who said she believed the Trump nominee was "qualified to serve as the next secretary of Labor."

"The Department of Labor plays an integral role in supporting workers and small businesses alike, and after hearing significant support from constituents, including members of labor unions in New Hampshire, I will support Representative Chavez-DeRemer's nomination as Secretary of Labor," Hassan shared in a statement to Fox News Digital after voting to advance the Trump nominee through the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

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Chavez-DeRemer previously served as mayor of Happy Valley, Oregon, from 2011 to 2018, before being elected to represent the state's 5th Congressional District in Congress in the 2022 midterms.

The Teamsters Union endorsed the Trump nominee for the top role in Trump's Cabinet.

"As the daughter of a Teamster, Lori Chavez-DeRemer knows the importance of carrying a union card and what it means to grow up in a middle-class household," Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said in a February statement. 

"Working people need someone with her experience leading the agency that is tasked with protecting workers, creating good union jobs, and rebuilding our nation’s middle class."

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As the deadline to avert a partial government shutdown approaches and President Donald Trump urges Republicans to support passage of a funding measure, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has declared that he will oppose the proposal.

"Unless I get a lobotomy Monday that causes me to forget what I’ve witnessed the past 12 years, I’ll be a NO on the CR this week. It amazes me that my colleagues and many of the public fall for the lie that we will fight another day," Massie declared in a Sunday post on X.

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A federal judge in Manhattan ruled that anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil is not to be deported "unless and until the Court orders otherwise," on Monday. 

Khalil, who led anti-Israel protests and encampments on Columbia University's campus, was taken into custody on the Upper West Side in New York City on Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that he was a former Columbia graduate student who "led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization." 

The judge ordered a hearing for Wednesday. This after Khalil's lawyer argued their client had been detained illegally and should be released.

Politicians have also spoken out in defense of Khalil. "Squad" member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., criticized his arrest, calling the incident an "egregious violation of constitutional rights."

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In a post published to Instagram on Sunday, Tlaib wrote that it was "dangerous to allow our government to target people based on political speech," and warned that "more targeting of students like this will happen."

"Everyone should be concerned about this," Tlaib said in the Instagram video.

The Michigan congresswoman also addressed the reports about Khalil having a student visa revoked after his lawyer said he was a legal permanent resident.

"They were revoking his student visa, well, guess what? He doesn't have a student visa," Tlaib claimed. "He's a green card holder. Legal permanent resident."

"Now, again, they proceed to engage the attorney… he or she asked for a warrant, they hung up on them," she continued. "If you believe in constitutional rights, you understand that they're targeting this person. And everyone knows he has been very vocal against the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, and they're targeting him and refusing him constitutional rights. Who's next?"

In an X post on Monday, New York State Attorney General Letitia James echoed Tlaib's concerns.

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"I am extremely concerned about the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, an advocate and legal permanent resident of Palestinian descent," James's post read. "My office is monitoring the situation, and we are in contact with his attorney."

Khalil's attorney, Amy E. Greer, released a statement claiming that her client was "wrongfully arrested."

"Last night ICE agents wrongfully arrested Mahmoud Khalil, claiming his student visa was revoked – even though Mahmoud is legal permanent resident (green card) and not in the U.S. on a student visa," Greer's Sunday statement read. "Confronted with that fact, the ICE agents detained him anyway."

President Donald Trump, however, said that Khalil's apprehension was "the first arrest of many to come" in a recent social media post.

"We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it," Trump said in a Truth Social post. 

"Many are not students, they are paid agitators," he added. "We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again."

Fox News Digital reached out to Tlaib's office for additional comment.

According to ICE, Khalil is being held at the Lasalle Detention facility in Louisiana.

Fox News Digital's Pilar Arias contributed to this report.

A Republican lawmaker is taking a victory lap after the mayor of Chicago reportedly agreed to donate the contents of a "secret gift room" to charity, days after he was grilled about it at a House hearing.

"Just days after I forced corrupt @ChicagosMayor to answer for his secret gift room, he’s making the gifts public. They are now being donated to charity," Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, said on X.

"Chicago is a Sanctuary City that harbors criminal illegal aliens who are terrorizing the American people. Mayor Brandon Johnson has been a major proponent and defender of Sanctuary cities," Gill continued. "At the same time, he was accepting luxurious gifts from undisclosed sources."

Gill had quizzed Mayor Brandon Johnson about gifts he received, including Hugo Boss cuff links and a personalized Montblanc pen, at a House Oversight Committee hearing on sanctuary cities last week.

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"I did not receive those personally, the city of Chicago received those," Johnson said. "Those are not my personal gifts, those are the gifts of the city of Chicago, and that’s why you’re aware they exist."

After that hearing, ABC7 Chicago reported on what it described as "the mayor’s gift room." Gifts included a Kate Spade woman’s handbag, T-shirts and coffee mugs, some of which predate Johnson taking office. Others included a signed Chicago Bulls jersey and a NASCAR race suit. 

The outlet reported that all the items are now categorized on a city website that lists when they were given and by whom. The gifts will be donated to charities on a rotating basis and the mayor's office is opening the gift room to the public one day per quarter by appointment, the outlet reported.

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The questioning came after a critical Chicago inspector general report, which criticized a lack of transparency and reported that 70% of gifts had no record of the identity of who provided the gifts. The room contained more than 300 gifts.

"When gifts are changing hands—perhaps literally—in a windowless room in City Hall, there is no opportunity for oversight and public scrutiny of the propriety of such gifts, the identities and intentions of the gift-givers, or what it means for gifts like whiskey, jewelry, handbags, and size 14 men’s shoes to be accepted ‘on behalf of the City,’" the report said.

The city didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Gill linked the room to the ongoing controversy surrounding "sanctuary" cities, which limit the ability of state and local enforcement to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"While this new-found transparency is welcome, it isn’t enough. Sanctuary city policies must end now. Our elected officials have a duty to American citizens, not illegal aliens," he said.

FIRST ON FOX: A bipartisan pair of senators are teaming up to pass "commonsense legislation" that ensures the families of former law enforcement officers who are killed in retirement are protected by benefits.

Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., introduced the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, shared first with Fox News Digital, on Monday to amend the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program and make families of former law enforcement officers eligible to receive benefits if the former officer is killed or permanently disabled after retirement. 

The legislation is named after Chief Herbert D. Proffitt, a retired officer who was shot and killed in his driveway by someone he had arrested decades prior.

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Despite serving in law enforcement for 55 years, Proffitt's family members were denied benefits since he had retired prior to the attack.

"When a law enforcement officer is killed because of the work they did to keep our communities safe, it’s our responsibility to make sure their family is cared for," Cortez Masto, a former law enforcement official, said in a statement. "I’m proud to introduce this critical piece of commonsense legislation to right the wrong Chief Proffitt’s family experienced and make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else."

The amendment would also apply to claims by former law enforcement officers who retired on or after Jan. 1, 2012.

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"The loss of Chief Herbert D. Proffitt is a tragic reminder of the risk that follows our finest every day of their lives," McConnell said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.

"This legislation plugs an important hole, ensuring the Proffitt family – and others like them – are supported and assured that the service and sacrifice of their loved ones are never forgotten," the senator said.

The bill is endorsed by several police advocacy groups, including the Fraternal Order of Police, the Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers, the Kentucky Sheriffs’ Association, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation and Supporting Heroes.

A mirrored version of the bipartisan legislation was introduced in the House last month by Reps. Andy Barr, R-Ky., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.

FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump is making calls on Monday to potential holdouts on a plan to avoid a government shutdown at the end of this week, a White House official confirmed to Fox News digital.

Three sources have said Trumpworld is making calls to Capitol Hill ahead of the late Tuesday afternoon vote.

Two senior House Republicans said they expected Trump to speak directly with critics of the bill sometime before the vote on Tuesday.

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The House and Senate must pass a bill and get it to Trump's desk before the end of Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown.

Two sources said Trump aides have been in contact with lawmakers who could vote against the bill, while the third source said the White House has also phoned reliable "yes" votes to ensure Republicans will "show a unified front" during the vote.

"I'm sure the president is making calls," one senior House Republican told Fox News Digital.

But as of late afternoon Monday, the pressure campaign has not reached every House GOP lawmaker with doubts.

One GOP lawmaker who said they were undecided about the bill said they had not heard from the White House, nor House leadership.

The legislation is a rough extension of fiscal year (FY) 2024 funding levels known as a "continuing resolution" (CR).

Republicans have traditionally rejected CRs in droves, frequently advocating for "regular order" involving 12 annual appropriations bills crafted by Congress. 

But unlike with previous CR votes, House Democratic leaders have signaled that the left will not vote against shutting down the government en masse as usual over the last two years.

Democratic leaders have accused Republicans of using the CR to pave the way for Trump and Elon Musk to carry out their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts – something conservatives are using as an argument to their own colleagues in favor of the bill.

It's possible at least several moderate Democrats running in competitive races next year will vote to avoid a shutdown, but Republicans are expected to largely shoulder the burden on their own.

At least one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is already opposed. He wrote on X, "Unless I get a lobotomy Monday that causes me to forget what I’ve witnessed the past 12 years, I’ll be a NO on the CR this week."

It's not immediately clear if the White House has made any private overtures to Massie for his vote, and his spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.

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Former Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita, however, responded to him with a pointed message on X, "Tick tock Tommie."

Meanwhile, a third House Republican, who said it "wouldn't surprise" them if Trump was making calls, was frustrated at what they saw as repetitive political theater by dissenters.

"You've got these handful of members that see themselves as the ‘purists,’ and if we all just shared their vision, all of the problems we faced would magically disappear. This act is getting old!" the House Republican said. "Can you imagine if we just shut down the government during a unified government because we can't get an agreement out of the House?"

Fox News Digital reached out to Speaker Mike Johnson's office and the White House for comment but did not hear back by press time.

House Republicans released the text of their 99-page continuing resolution on Saturday.

Trump was previously credited with helping get House Republicans' framework for a massive conservative budget overhaul over the line after lengthy phone calls with two holdouts, Reps. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the failed 2024 vice presidential candidate, conducted a postmortem on his 2024 campaign with former Vice President Kamala Harris, determining the Democrats played it too safe during the cycle. 

"We shouldn’t have been playing this thing so safe," Walz told Politico in an interview published Saturday. 

He added: "I think we probably should have just rolled the dice and done the town halls, where (voters) may say, ‘You’re full of s---, I don’t believe in you.' I think there could have been more of that."

Walz joined Harris on the Democratic ticket in August 2024, just days after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July amid mounting concerns over the commander in chief's mental acuity and as Harris moved to pick up the mantle at the top of the ticket. The Harris campaign had just more than 100 days between Biden dropping out and rallying support for the Harris-Walz ticket on Nov. 5. 

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The Trump-Vance ticket swept the battleground states on election night, catapulting them to victory with 312 electoral votes to Harris’ 226. 

Walz has been on a media blitz in recent days, including speaking with the New Yorker, joining MSNBC ahead of President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress, speaking at the South By Southwest film festival on Saturday and teeing up an interview on California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast. 

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Walz argued that Democrats "are more cautious" in engaging with the media than Republicans, while adding that he felt as if the campaign was never ahead, comparing it to a "prevent defense" strategy during a football game. 

"In football parlance, we were in a prevent defense to not lose when we never had anything to lose because I don’t think we were ever ahead," he said, which bolsters reporting following the election that internal Democratic polling showed Harris lagging behind Trump in the lead-up to Nov. 5. 

Walz took ownership for the party's loss in 2024, telling the outlet that "when you’re on the ticket and you don’t win, that’s your responsibility." 

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A handful of former presidential campaign staffers who spoke to the outlet under the condition of anonymity relayed that Walz wasn't presented to voters in an effective manner, and was instead kept in a "box," which they said compounded the Harris–Walz loss to the Trump–Vance ticket. 

"He was underutilized and that was the symptom of the larger campaign of decision paralysis and decision logjam at the top," one former senior Harris aide told the outlet. "Could he have changed a percent in Wisconsin? Maybe. We still lose even if we win Wisconsin."

Walz was put "in a box," and "we didn’t use him the way we could’ve," the aide added. 

"The world seemed to want more Tim Walz, and there were times when I wish they could’ve gotten more Tim Walz," Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said, adding that he "wished they would’ve put [Walz] out there more."

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"By the time they finally let him do anything at all, it’s like 20 days left, and he’s doing four states a day, and there’s only so much you could do," another former staffer said of Walz. "It was too short."

The aides argued that Walz faced a steep battle ahead of his debate against then-Ohio Sen. JD Vance, remarking that he was "super nervous" and "in his own head" while preparing to face the Trump running mate on the stage. 

"It looked as if Vance was the conductor and Walz was following the script," longtime Democrtic strategist David Axelrod told Politico of the VP debate. "I don’t think that was the reason they lost, but that was not helpful either."

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Walz reportedly carried campaign flubs heavily on his mind, while some aides argued that the Harris campaign "didn’t do enough to punch back" against criticisms and defend Walz, such as when he falsely claimed he carried guns while in war. Walz joined the Army National Guard in 1981 and retired in 2005, but never saw combat. 

"This was a guy who definitely was embarrassed by his flubs, didn’t handle them well, and seemed like there was a never-ending supply of them, so that was part of the issue of getting him out there everywhere," a former Harris staffer told Politico. "I don’t look back on that campaign and think that the way we used Walz was a critical error."

Walz revealed in an interview with the New Yorker, published March 2, that he is open to a potential presidential run in 2028, which was met with mockery by conservatives on social media earlier in March. 

Walz reiterated in his Politico interview that he is "not saying no" to a potential 2028 presidential run if the opportunity should present itself. 

"I’m staying on the playing field to try and help because we have to win," Walz said. "And I will always say this, I will do everything in my power [to help], and as I said, with the vice presidency, if that was me, then I’ll do the job."

Fox News Digital reached out to Walz's office for additional comment on his remarks and did not immediately receive a reply. 

FIRST ON FOX: The White House on Monday has been involved in getting House Republicans on the same page ahead of a critical vote on avoiding a government shutdown, multiple people tell Fox News Digital.

Three sources have said Trumpworld is making calls to Capitol Hill ahead of the late Tuesday afternoon vote.

It's not immediately clear if President Donald Trump himself has yet spoken to people who could vote against the bill, like he did with two Republican holdouts during last month's budget reconciliation framework vote.

However, two senior House Republicans said they expect Trump to speak directly with critics of the bill sometime before the vote on Tuesday.

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The House and Senate must pass a bill and get it to Trump's desk before the end of Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown.

Two sources said Trump aides have been in contact with lawmakers who could vote against the bill, while the third source said the White House has also phoned reliable "yes" votes to ensure Republicans will "show a unified front" during the vote.

"I'm sure the president is making calls," one senior House Republican told Fox News Digital.

But as of late afternoon Monday, the pressure campaign has not reached every House GOP lawmaker with doubts.

One GOP lawmaker who said they were undecided about the bill said they had not heard from the White House, nor House leadership.

The legislation is a rough extension of fiscal year (FY) 2024 funding levels known as a "continuing resolution" (CR).

Republicans have traditionally rejected CRs in droves, frequently advocating for "regular order" involving 12 annual appropriations bills crafted by Congress. 

But unlike with previous CR votes, House Democratic leaders have signaled that the left will not vote against shutting down the government en masse as usual over the last two years.

Democratic leaders have accused Republicans of using the CR to pave the way for Trump and Elon Musk to carry out their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts – something conservatives are using as an argument to their own colleagues in favor of the bill.

It's possible at least several moderate Democrats running in competitive races next year will vote to avoid a shutdown, but Republicans are expected to largely shoulder the burden on their own.

At least one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is already opposed. He wrote on X, "Unless I get a lobotomy Monday that causes me to forget what I’ve witnessed the past 12 years, I’ll be a NO on the CR this week."

It's not immediately clear if the White House has made any private overtures to Massie for his vote, and his spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.

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Former Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita, however, responded to him with a pointed message on X, "Tick tock Tommie."

Meanwhile, a third House Republican, who said it "wouldn't surprise" them if Trump was making calls, was frustrated at what they saw as repetitive political theater by dissenters.

"You've got these handful of members that see themselves as the ‘purists,’ and if we all just shared their vision, all of the problems we faced would magically disappear. This act is getting old!" the House Republican said. "Can you imagine if we just shut down the government during a unified government because we can't get an agreement out of the House?"

Fox News Digital reached out to Speaker Mike Johnson's office and the White House for comment but did not hear back by press time.

House Republicans released the text of their 99-page continuing resolution on Saturday.

Trump was previously credited with helping get House Republicans' framework for a massive conservative budget overhaul over the line after lengthy phone calls with two holdouts, Reps. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn.

Teachers' union boss Randi Weingarten said during a recent podcast appearance that she is fearful President Donald Trump's plans to terminate the Department of Education will mean more funding for school choice vouchers, which she decried as a "tax credit" for wealthy families already sending their kids to private school. 

Weingarten's comments came during a podcast interview with Molly Jong-Fast, who spoke with her about the implications of Trump's spending reforms, particularly his plan to terminate the Department of Education. Weingarten stated that cutting the department's roughly $100 billion in funding will primarily benefit tax cuts for the wealthy or – "equally pernicious" – be redirected to states as "block grants."

"We know, for example, what Texas would do," Weingarten told Jong-Fast. "They'll use it for vouchers. So they won't give [federal funding] to the kids who have it now, they'll just give it for vouchers." 

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"And frankly, what we are seeing in all the programs now – in terms of vouchers – they don't work for kids," Weingarten continued. "They basically go right now – it becomes a tax credit for people who already are sending their kids to private schools. So it's income redistribution."

Trump has not taken any formal action to dismantle the the department, but media reports have signaled he is close to signing an executive order directing his education secretary, Linda McMahon, to begin the process. Last month, the president mused during a press conference from the Oval Office that the Education Department was "a big con job" that needed to be shut down "immediately."

Alongside his anticipated executive action to dismantle the department Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 29 to expand "educational freedom" for families through various school choice programs, including vouchers.

"We're fighting to protect our kids and protect that funding and not let Donald Trump or Elon Musk glom it off for tax cuts for billionaires or for block grants for vouchers," Weingarten responded after Jong-Fast asked what she and her union, the American Federation of Teachers, was doing to combat Trump. Weingarten added that regardless of whether you are a Republican or Democrat, ensuring American families have the economic and educational opportunities to achieve the American Dream, should be a priority.

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"We all have to do a lot more to help make sure that families in America have what they need for a quality of life, for entry into the middle class," Weingarten said.

However, while Weingarten may be of the belief that school choice funding, in particular for vouchers, does not benefit the economic and educational opportunities of Americans, others disagree with that notion. 

Rachel Langan, a senior education policy analyst at the Commonwealth Foundation, a public policy think-tank based in Pennsylvania, said "simply spending more money" is not an answer to the deficiencies within the U.S. education system. 

"Pennsylvania already dedicates more than $37 billion to public schools, more than $22,000 per student. Yet, the latest U.S. Department of Education data shows that 69% of Pennsylvania eighth-grade students aren’t proficient at math, and an equal 69% cannot read at grade level – despite a $4.1 billion increase in state education spending in the last four years," Langan said in a statement following Trump's executive order directing the federal government to prioritize school choice funding.

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"Parents need more educational options, as evidenced by the continued waiting lists for charter schools and for the state’s tax credit scholarship programs, which serve large numbers of low-income families zoned to attend low-achieving public schools."

"The time is now for school choice in every state," the American Federation for Children, a nonprofit that advocates for school choice, added following Trump's order. "For a generation, our nation’s education system has been held hostage by bureaucrats and schooling unions who care only about preserving their own power, not the needs of American students."

Since Trump's executive order boosting school choice funding, a handful of states have introduced legislation to make these programs more widely available. In total, 14 states have passed universal school choice bills. 

Fox News Digital reached out to the American Federation of Teachers and Weingarten for comment, but did not hear back prior to publication. 

A former Iraqi refugee pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State group, according to the Justice Department. 

Abdulrahman Mohammed Hafedh Alqaysi, 28, pleaded guilty to creating and developing logos for ISIS’ media wing, known as the Kalachnikov team, and sending hacking videos and instructions to ISIS members between 2015 and 2020, the Justice Department announced Friday. 

He also pleaded guilty to providing stolen credit card information and creating fraudulent identity documents for the designated terrorist group. 

Alqaysi, currently a legal permanent resident in Richmond, Texas, will remain in custody until his June 5 sentencing. He faces up to 20 years behind bars and up to $250,000 in fines. 

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The guilty plea comes after the Trump administration has moved to crack down on the vetting of refugees. For example, President Donald Trump signed executive orders in January suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and ramping up vetting of refugees "to the maximum degree possible," particularly those "from regions or nations with identified security risks."

One of the orders, known as the Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program, instructs Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to admit refugees to the U.S. on a "case by case basis" if the alien does not pose a national security threat to the U.S.

Additionally, Vice President JD Vance voiced concerns about the vetting process for refugees in January, and said in an interview with CBS anchor Margaret Brennan that the U.S. shouldn’t "unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country." 

Specifically, Vance pointed to an Afghan national arrested in October 2024 on charges of conspiring to conduct a terrorist attack on Election Day on behalf of ISIS, according to the Justice Department. 

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"I don't agree that all these immigrants, or all these refugees have been properly vetted," Vance told Brennan. "In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks in our country. That happened during the campaign, if you may remember. So, clearly, not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted."

A spokesperson for Vance did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital about Alqaysi’s guilty plea. 

Fox News’ Julia Johnson and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report. 

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Fox News Digital he still believes the bipartisan border bill was necessary to secure the border, despite President Donald Trump achieving record-low border encounters through executive action.

In February, U.S. Border Patrol recorded the lowest monthly total of migrant apprehensions on the U.S. southern border in at least 25 years. There were 8,326 southern border encounters in February 2025, down from 189,913 in February 2024.

"Same law, same opportunities. Obviously, very different applications of the law," Lankford said. "We had one day last week, there were less than 200 people [who] even tried to illegally cross the border. You go back to a year and a half ago, that number was 12,000 a day. So dramatic difference in application."

Lankford said the combination of Trump’s rhetoric and policies has led to the stark drop in illegal border crossings. But the Oklahoma senator said Trump wouldn’t need to play so much "catch-up ball" if the bipartisan border bill was passed under President Joe Biden’s administration. 

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"We had a million additional people that came into the country in 2024 that would not have been in the country, if we would have passed that bill," Lankford said. 

Lankford, who led the Republican charge to pass the bipartisan border bill, said it would have required the Biden administration to exercise their "legal authority" and create new authorities to secure the border. And even with the record-low number of border crossings, Lankford told Fox News Digital that border security requires legislative action to make a lasting impact. 

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"It'll be the challenge in the days ahead. There are still gaps in the law. There are still loopholes there. And I would anticipate within two or three years the cartels will test it, test it, test it, test it. See if they can find a way to make a breakthrough. We saw this in the first Trump administration. The first two years, the numbers were down. But in 2019, there were almost a million people that illegally crossed that year under the Trump administration in the third year, because the cartels were testing, testing, testing, trying to find loopholes in the law… that challenge will come again," Lankford said. 

Lankford said the first step was Trump applying the law by enforcing border security, and next is closing legislative "loopholes."

"When we see the loopholes, close those because President Trump's going to be president for four years. We don't know who's to be president five years from now. We're going to have the same issue again. If we don't fix those gaps in the law, then we're going to have this issue come up again. So if you want to fix it, it's not just elect somebody for four years. It's fix the law, so we never have to deal with this again. That's what I was trying to do, was to be able to stop the chaos that was already happening in 2014, and then to say no matter who is president in the future, we're going to enforce this law," Lankford said. 

Lankford has supported border security legislation since he was a representative for Oklahoma’s fifth congressional district. He supported the Secure the Southwest Border Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2014, which was designed to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enhance resources for unaccompanied minors on the southern border. 

As senator, Lankford was the lead Republican negotiator on the Border Act of 2024, more commonly known as the bipartisan border bill. Lankford collaborated with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., to introduce the legislation early last year. 

The bill sought to deter illegal border crossings through a quota system, tighten asylum application processes, increase border patrol agents on the ground, create work visas for migrant spouses of U.S. citizens and develop pathways to citizenship for "documented dreamers."

Lankford’s Republican colleagues blocked the bipartisan border bill from passing in the Senate. Trump reportedly opposed the bill for not going far enough to secure the border and for the political victory it would have granted President Joe Biden and the Democrats on border security. Lankford has continued to defend the legislation, despite the Oklahoma Republican Party censuring him for aligning too closely with the Democrat’s agenda in championing the bill. 

The bill became a political fixture of the 2024 presidential campaign, as Democrats up and down the ballot blamed Trump and Republicans for blocking legislation that would have increased border security. Meanwhile, Republicans blamed President Joe Biden’s policies for the illegal immigration surge.

A new report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found there were more than 18 million illegal immigrants in the United States following the Biden administration. The population of illegal immigrants in the United States grew by 4.1 million or 18.2% since December 2020, the report found. 

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to secure the border on day one of his administration. He signed a series of border security executive actions on the first day of his second term, including declaring a national emergency on the southern border. 

Fox News Voter Analysis found that the economy and immigration were the top issues for voters in 2024. Nearly half (47%) of voters in 2024 said immigrants living in the U.S. illegally should be deported rather than given a chance to apply for legal status, and 68% favored reducing the number of immigrants allowed to seek asylum at the border.

On the eve of his 50th day back in office, President Donald Trump is touting that America is "back."

Trump, seven weeks into his second tour of duty in the White House, highlighted in an interview this weekend on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that he and his administration were moving "at a very rapid pace."

"Best Opening Month of any President in history," the president wrote in a recent social media post, as he touted his accomplishments — some of them controversial — since his Jan. 20 inauguration.

But the most recent national polls indicate Americans don't have such a rosy view of the Trump presidency, and are divided on the job he's done so far.

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Trump's approval ratings were underwater in three surveys – from Reuters/Ipsos, CNN and NPR/PBS/Marist – which were conducted ahead of the president's address last week to a joint-session of Congress. It was the first major primetime speech of his second administration.

But Trump's approval ratings were in positive territory in other new polls.

And Trump, who has long kept a close eye on public opinion polling, took to social media on Monday to showcase his "Highest Approval Ratings Since Inauguration."

While Americans are split on Trump's performance, the approval ratings for his second term are an improvement from his first tour of duty, when he started 2017 in negative territory and remained underwater throughout his four-year tenure in the White House.

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But there's been a bit of slippage.

An average of all the most recent national polls indicates that Trump's approval ratings are just above water. However, Trump has seen his numbers edge down slightly since returning to the White House in late January, when an average of his polls indicated the president's approval rating in the low 50s and his disapproval in the mid 40s.

"Keep these numbers in perspective. The numbers he’s averaging right now are still higher than he was at any point during his first presidency," veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse told Fox News.

And Newhouse emphasized that Trump's Republican "base is still strongly behind him."

Daron Shaw, a politics professor and chair at the University of Texas, also pointed to Trump's rock-solid GOP support.

"He never had support among Democrats in the first administration, but he also had some trouble with Republicans," Shaw, who serves as a member of the Fox News Decision Team and is the Republican partner on the Fox News Poll, spotlighted. "That’s one acute difference between 2017 and 2025. The party’s completely solidified behind him."

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The president has been moving at warp speed during his opening seven weeks back in the White House with a flurry of executive orders and actions. His moves not only fulfilled some of his major campaign promises, but also allowed the returning president to flex his executive muscles, quickly putting his stamp on the federal government, making major cuts to the federal workforce and also settling some long-standing grievances.

Trump as of Monday had signed 89 executive orders since his inauguration, according to a count from Fox News, which far surpasses the rate of any recent presidential predecessors during their first weeks in office.

Those moves include a high-profile crackdown on immigration, slapping steep tariffs on major trading partners, including Canada and Mexico, and upending the nation's foreign policy by freezing aid to Ukraine and clashing with that country's president in the Oval Office.

"He has flooded the zone with his policies and he’s thrown Democrats into disarray," Newhouse said.

And pointing to lackluster favorable ratings for the Democratic Party, Newhouse highlighted that Trump's "numbers may be slightly slipping, but it sure as heck hasn’t gone to the Democrats."

While he's in a better polling position than during his first term, Trump's approval ratings are lower seven weeks into his presidency than any of his recent predecessors in the White House.

Shaw noted that neither Trump nor former President Joe Biden "started out with overwhelming approval. This is not like the honeymoon period that we historically expect presidents to enjoy…. Historically, the other side gives you a little bit of leeway when you first come in. That just doesn’t happen anymore."

Biden's approval rating hovered in the low- to mid-50s during the first six months of his single term as president, with his disapproval in the upper 30s to the low- to-mid-40s. 

However, Biden's numbers sank into negative territory in the late summer and autumn of 2021, in the wake of his much-criticized handling of the turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan, and amid soaring inflation and a surge of migrants crossing into the U.S. along the nation's southern border with Mexico.

Biden's approval ratings stayed underwater throughout the rest of his presidency.

"He just got crippled and never recovered," Shaw said of Biden.

There are some warning signs for Trump.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll indicated that just one in three Americans gave the president a thumbs-up on his handling of the cost of living.

Shaw emphasized that inflation, the issue that helped propel Trump back into the White House, remains critical to the president's political fortunes.

"If prices remain high, he’s going to have trouble," Shaw warned.

Members of Congress visited Guantanamo Bay last week amid renewed attention on the military base, which is now being used to hold illegal immigrants, including some that may pose an additional security risk.

President Donald Trump is aiming to have up to 30,000 people who are in the United States illegally held at the facility before they face deportation with the goal of using the facility mainly for "the worst criminal aliens threatening the American people," the president previously said.

"Yesterday, I led a Congressional Delegation to Guantanamo Bay to see firsthand the incredible work being done by our servicemembers to keep our nation safe," Rep. Mike Rogers, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, said in a statement.

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"During our visit, we met with servicemembers and law enforcement officials who have played a crucial role in facilitating the removal of some of the worst criminals. Border security is national security and I’m proud of the role the Department of Defense has played in protecting our nation and ending the invasion at our southern border," he continued.

As of last week, about 20 migrants are at the naval station, but over 250 have been at the base since the Trump policy was announced. Most of the 20 were considered "high threat," Fox News reported. Roughly 200 were Venezuelans who have since been deported. 

"The visit to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay was an eye-opening experience that offered tremendous insights into the complexities of immigration policy and the importance of border security," Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., said in a statement.'

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"Understanding the deportation process firsthand is crucial for informing my decisions. I came away not only with a better perspective but also with a deeper appreciation for the service members and federal workers who work tirelessly to safeguard the American people," Davis added.

The visit comes as there is an effort to ramp up deportations even further, whether it’s through law enforcement action or by one’s own choice. 

The "CBP Home" app launched this week with the goal of having people self-deport if they entered the country illegally, which is a major change from the "CBP One" app used to process migrants during the Biden administration. Millions of people were encountered by CBP crossing into the country illegally during the last administration. 

While encounters decreased slightly following an executive order from Biden last year, apprehension numbers torpedoed to just over 8,000 — the least ever noted by CBP.

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"It is clear that Guantanamo Bay is operational and equipped to conduct these deportations, with multiple agencies cooperating in this effort including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. With the strong commitment of Republicans in Congress, these deportations should continue and increase without interruption," Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., told Fox News Digital in a statement.

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The delegation's visit comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth toured Guantanamo Bay at the end of February, as the base holds both the "Migrant Operations Center" and the detention center that is most well-known for holding suspected terrorists in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. 

It seems like just a few weeks ago, there was a crisis on Capitol Hill as lawmakers tried to avert a government shutdown.

Well, you have a good memory. But you don’t have to have a long one. The reason is that a government funding drama played out in Washington just before last Christmas. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., thought he had forged an agreement which could pass the House with a coalition of Democrats and Republicans. It would also get through the Senate with Democrats lugging some of the freight to overcome a filibuster.

Everything seemed fine until lawmakers saw the sheer size of the bill. President Trump – then president-elect – weighed in. So did Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

And the bill was toast.

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Lawmakers scrambled to assemble a slimmed-down bill to avoid a Christmastime government shutdown – and punt everything until the middle of March.

Guess what?

It’s mid-March.

Lawmakers failed to work out an overall spending package to run until next fall. This came after the spending plan that we’re talking about now was supposed to be worked out last fall. In fact, many House Republicans complained that lawmakers failed to advance the 12 individual spending bills by the book. The House has completed a few. The Senate? None. That was under the stewardship of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., when Democrats ran the show last year. Zero bills under new Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., this year.

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Don’t forget that Johnson seized the speakership in October 2023, promising to handle the appropriations bills one by one. But reality set in. Circumstances forced Johnson to advance multiple stopgap spending packages – often with Democratic help. They finally funded the government for 2023 in April 2024.

This is why government funding crises ricochet around constantly.

House Republicans published the text of an interim spending bill over the weekend. It renews the Biden-level funding numbers – but also makes some cuts to social spending programs and the budget for the city of Washington. However, there are small increases in funding for the Pentagon. There are few Democratic priorities reflected in the bill. Yet House Republicans – who control the House – are demanding Democrats join them to help pass the bill. Democratic votes may be necessary when Republicans have a slim majority. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., already said he was a no unless he were to receive "a lobotomy."

During an appearance on NBC’s "Meet the Press" last week, Johnson asserted that Democrats should help because "government funding is always bipartisan. You have to have partners on both sides of the aisle to do it."

Johnson has needed Democrats to pass government funding bills since he assumed the speakership. In fact, Democrats may have salvaged Johnson’s speakership last spring. There was a wink and a nod that Democrats may try to buffer any attempt to oust him – especially since he was willing to support a plan to fund Ukraine.

And Johnson, along with his predecessor, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., faced reams of criticism for crafting spending bills to avert government shutdowns which needed Democrats to pass.

"Speaker Johnson has betrayed (our trust) by passing three CRs to keep the government open and then forcing us to pass, or to vote on a two-part omnibus, the second one being today," said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., last year.

She threatened to remove the speaker when a temporary spending measure arrived last year.

"This bill was basically a dream and a wish list for Democrats and for the White House. It was completely led by Chuck Schumer, not our Republican speaker of the House," added Greene.

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Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., was one of the eight GOP members who voted to remove McCarthy as speaker in 2023. Throughout that summer, Biggs criticized McCarthy over how he handled spending bills and a measure to avoid a collision with the debt ceiling.

"The speaker formed a coalition with Democrats to get us a $4 trillion national debt. And I continue to be concerned because he hasn’t repudiated that coalition," said Biggs in June 2023.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is responsible for triggering the resolution that led to McCarthy’s demise. McCarthy’s transgression? After the House stumbled to pass its own spending package before a government funding deadline in September 2023, McCarthy put a clean spending measure on the floor that passed with Democratic help. McCarthy was out the door four days later.

"We’re going to force him into a monogamous relationship with one or the other," said Gaetz at the time.

The Florida Republican accused McCarthy of jumping "in the back seat" with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.

So now House Republicans have crafted a bill that appeals to Republicans. And they expect Democrats to help them support it.

"The threat of the shutdown is on them at that point. So they better get on board," said Rep. Jake Ellzey, R-Texas.

Ellzey noted that if all Senate Republicans supported the package, it would be incumbent on at least seven Senate Democrats to help break a filibuster to advance the plan. Republicans hold 53 Senate seats. But 60 yeas are necessary to overcome a filibuster.

"And if we shut down, it’s on them," said Ellzey.

Democrats find GOP criticism rich – despite the Senate numbers conundrum.

"This is a question of why can't they govern?" asked Rep. Ro Khanna, R-Calif. "You elected a Republican president. You have a Republican House. A Republican Senate. They should be able to have the votes to fund government."

Khanna also blasted the GOP’s "take it or leave it" approach when they were not part of negotiations for this particular bill. Democrats demanded restrictions on DOGE and guarantees about sustaining programs at federal agencies, along with no cuts to social programs.

"It's disingenuous for them to expect Democratic votes without making compromise," said Khanna. "You can't say ‘Vote for it on my terms.’"

This may be a bumpy week. The House plans to pass the bill and skip town, leaving the Senate holding the bag. Democrats are debating whether it’s better to keep the government operating – since they support federal workers. They simultaneously fear a government shutdown could invite more cuts by DOGE.

But even though this seems like other government shutdown battles, this one is slightly different. One can never expect things to go by the script when President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are involved. Some argue that their interference with the December bill was just an appetizer. We’ll know by Friday night if this government shutdown threat is like all the others – or not. 

FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Education announced Monday that 60 universities are under investigation for "antisemitic discrimination and harassment," Fox News Digital has learned. 

On the list of universities include Harvard University, University of California Davis, University of California San Diego, University of California Santa Barbara, University of California, among others. 

"The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite U.S. campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless antisemitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life for more than a year. University leaders must do better," Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement. "U.S. colleges and universities benefit from enormous public investments funded by U.S. taxpayers. That support is a privilege and it is contingent on scrupulous adherence to federal antidiscrimination laws."  

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On Friday, the Trump administration announced its move to investigate as an "immediate priority" outstanding allegations of antisemitism and violence on college campuses across the U.S. after canceling roughly $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University "due to the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students."

"Over 140 complaints alleging antisemitic harassment and violence were filed with the Biden Education Department," Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for the OCR, told Fox News Digital Monday. 

This is a breaking story, check back for updates. 

The White House remained steadfast in its DOGE agenda after 20 Democratic state attorneys general collaborated to file a lawsuit Friday challenging the legality of the administration’s planned cuts to the federal workforce.

"The Democrats have no plan on how to recover from their embarrassing loss, and it shows," White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields said Monday.

"Instead of working to become a party that focuses on the will of the people, they are hell-bent on keeping their heads in the sand and gaslighting on the widely supported mission of DOGE."

Maryland’s top lawman led 19 other states in asking a federal court to halt what Attorney General Anthony Brown called illegal mass layoffs of federal probationary employees. His office also called for those already let go to have their jobs reinstated.

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The lawsuit listed each of Trump’s top 21 acting or confirmed cabinet officials as defendants in their official capacity, and alleged the administration made "no secret of their contempt for the roughly 2 million committed professionals who form the federal civil service."

"Nor have they disguised their plans to terminate vast numbers of civil servants, starting with tens of thousands of probationary employees," the suit read.

Fields, a spokesman for President Donald Trump, said that slashing waste, fraud and abuse and "becoming better stewards of the American taxpayer’s hard-earned dollars" might "be a crime to Democrats."

"But, it’s not a crime in a court of law," Fields said.

Brown said in a statement that Trump’s "mass firings" have thrown thousands of Marylanders and others who work for the government into "financial insecurity."

Lawmakers in the Old Line State, which is home to the most federal workers per capita, previously warned constituents against Trump’s offer to buy-out their jobs in February.

Rep. Sarah Elfreth — a Democrat who represents a line of bedroom communities including Columbia, Elkridge and Glen Burnie — said her constituents had been coming to her expressing worry about the situation.

"Pushing out career federal employees will only cripple agencies and undermine essential government services — it does nothing to make government more efficient," she said.

In a statement, Gov. Wes Moore added that he supports the lawsuit and that Marylanders in public service are "dedicated patriots" whose work should be "praised, not villainized."

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Meanwhile, the lawsuit alleged potential "chaos" nationwide due to these job cuts, and that under the law, cabinet agencies must follow protocols when conducting "Reductions in Force" (RIFs) which include 60 days advanced notice of termination.

It also alleged that the layoffs are being carried out in a manner that forces state governments to abruptly step in, providing safety nets for affected employees — placing additional strain on state services and budgets.

New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin echoed Brown, calling the firings "callous and reckless."

Platkin claimed several military veterans in the Garden State have already been affected by the layoffs and that the endeavor has greatly damaged partnerships between Trenton and Washington.

"[These layoffs] are not only short-sighted but are illegal, and today we are taking the Trump administration to court in order to reverse them," he said.

In California, Attorney General Robert Bonta claimed DOGE’s actions will do the opposite of its stated purpose to curb waste and inefficiency.

"The reality is that abrupt and indiscriminate terminations will lead to increased operation disruptions, higher rehiring costs, and long-term financial burdens on taxpayers," Bonta said, adding that DOGE’s work has the potential to harm national parks within the Golden State.

Meanwhile, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha added in a statement that states need "appropriate notice" in order to prepare to help affected bureaucrats who live in the Ocean State.

"If [Trump] wants to reduce the size of the federal government, he must do so through legal means: This is another attempt to subvert the rule of law as an illegal means to an end and coalesce executive power in the process," Neronha said.

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"These protections are on the books for a reason, and we won’t stand for this attack on American workers and their families."

In defense of Trump and his administration, several Republican governors have countered that investigating and enacting ways to cut bureaucracy is not new, but that the president and Elon Musk have turbo-charged such an endeavor at the federal level.

"Idaho was DOGE before DOGE was cool," Gem State Gov. Brad Little said in his recent State of the State address.

"Florida has set the standard for fiscally conservative governance," Sunshine State Gov. Ron DeSantis added last month.

Meanwhile, officials like New Jersey state Sen. Joe Pennacchio, Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano and Texas Senate President Brandon Creighton have crafted DOGE commissions or policy proposals in their respective states.