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AOC accuses Trump of engaging in ‘increasingly erratic’ behavior

AOC accuses Trump of engaging in ‘increasingly erratic’ behavior

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed that President Donald Trump has been exhibiting “increasingly erratic” behavior. She made the comment in response to a question from Migrant Insider editor Pablo Manríquez, who asked, “How big of a factor is Donald Trump’s cognitive decline, given what we’re seeing at Davos?”  “I think that the president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways,” Ocasio-Cortez replied, according to the video shared on X. AOC ACCUSES VANCE OF BELIEVING ‘AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD BE ASSASSINATED IN THE STREET’ “I think it is really damning when we think about the degree to which mass media outlets reported on Joe Biden,” she said, pointing to how the Democratic Party ultimately nominated Kamala Harris in the 2024 race. “Yet, we are seeing behavior from Donald Trump that is increasingly erratic and alarming,” she said, asserting that “everyone’s pretending that this is normal.” The congresswoman said America’s “global partners” are seeing “the entire government apparatus and a party that is willing to watch someone decompensate in front of the world and do nothing about it.” Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment. “While deranged Democrats like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez push these blatant lies, President Trump is dominating on the world stage and brokering historic deals to advance the interests of the American people,” White House spokesperson Liz Huston said in a statement. “Don’t forget that after Joe Biden’s brain unraveled on the 2024 presidential debate stage and nearly the entire Democrat party subsequently panicked and demanded Biden drop out of the race, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez was one of the few delusional holdouts backing and pleading for Joe Biden to remain as their presidential nominee as late as July 8, 2024,” she added. TRUMP CLAIMS WHITE HOUSE DOCTORS REPORT HIM IN ‘PERFECT HEALTH,’ SAYS HE ‘ACED’ THIRD STRAIGHT COGNITIVE EXAM “Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez’s peanut-sized brain either forgot this happened or she thinks the American people are too stupid to remember,” Huston said. In July 2024 — after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Trump, but before Biden dropped out of the presidential race later in July — Ocasio-Cortez expressed her support for the incumbent.  “Joe Biden is our nominee. He is not leaving this race. He is in this race, and I support him,” she said at the time. Earlier this year, Trump declared in a Truth Social post, “The White House Doctors have just reported that I am in ‘PERFECT HEALTH,’ and that I ‘ACED’ (Meaning, was correct on 100% of the questions asked!), for the third straight time, my Cognitive Examination, something which no other President, or previous Vice President, was willing to take.” “P.S., I strongly believe that anyone running for President, or Vice President, should be mandatorily forced to take a strong, meaningful, and proven Cognitive Examination. Our great Country cannot be run by ‘STUPID’ or INCOMPETENT PEOPLE!” he added. TRUMP PITCHES COGNITIVE TESTS FOR LEADERS, QUESTIONS IF HARRIS, WALZ, NEWSOM COULD PASS In a Truth Social post last year, Trump referred to Ocasio-Cortez as “one of the ‘dumbest’ people in Congress.”

Vance tells Minneapolis to ‘stop fighting’ ICE as White House doubles down on crackdown

Vance tells Minneapolis to ‘stop fighting’ ICE as White House doubles down on crackdown

Vice President JD Vance stops in Minnesota Thursday, which is ground zero in the heated battle over President Donald Trump’s aggressive illegal immigration crackdown. A White House official told Fox News that Vance will use his trip to “highlight the Administration’s commitment to restoring law and order in Minneapolis.” The official said that Vance will meet with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during his stop, “to reinforce the White House’s unwavering support for federal immigration officials.” He also plans to hold a roundtable discussion with community leaders and hold a news conference. Apparently not on Vance’s itinerary: any olive branches to top Democratic officials and protesters who are fiercely opposed to the aggressive efforts by the massive deployment to Minnesota of masked ICE agents, who have raided homes as they search people for proof of citizenship. FBI DIRECTOR PATEL WARNS ELECTED OFFICIALS ‘NO ONE’ IS EXEMPT FROM FEDERAL SCRUTINY AMID MINNESOTA INVESTIGATION “I’m headed from here to Minneapolis, where we’re going to talk with some of our ICE agents, talk with local officials about how we can turn down the chaos. And my simple piece of advice to them is going to be, look, if you want to turn down the chaos in Minneapolis, stop fighting immigration enforcement and accept that we have to have a border in this country. It’s not that hard,” Vance said a couple of hours ahead of his arrival in Minnesota. But he added, “Certainly one of my goals is to calm the tensions, to talk to people, to try to understand what we can do better.” The vice president’s trip to Minneapolis comes two weeks after the fatal shooting by an ICE agent of Renee Good, a Minnesota woman and mother of three, went viral, sparking protests and a national debate over the agency’s efforts to carry out Trump’s push for the mass deportation of millions of undocumented migrants. And Richard Carlbom, chair of the Minnesota Democrats, argued that “JD Vance isn’t serious about accountability. He’s here to do Trump’s dirty work: defending disgusting ICE actions like the tragic killing of Renee Good and using Minnesota as a political backdrop.” MINNESOTA DEMOCRATS CRITICIZE DOJ SUBPOENAS, CLAIM WEAPONIZATION OF JUSTICE SYSTEM The White House says Vance “will point out how Minneapolis’s sanctuary city policies have degraded public safety and endangered ICE officers. He will also celebrate the essential work ICE agents have done to take dangerous, criminal illegal aliens off of America’s streets.” Good’s death and the continued ICE raids have fueled demonstrations, with protesters facing off against federal immigration officers. Hours ahead of Vance’s arrival, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino said at a news conference in Minneapolis that “our agents are being violently assaulted by agitators and anarchists.” Hundreds of military police troops are on alert for deployment to Minneapolis after Trump last week warned that if Minnesota’s political leaders don’t stop what he argued were “professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT.” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other prominent Democrats, including state Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, were served Tuesday with subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice over an alleged conspiracy to obstruct or impede federal law enforcement during ongoing ICE operations. DHS SAYS ICE AGENTS RAMMED BY VEHICLES AMID MINNEAPOLIS ENFORCEMENT SURGE: ‘AGGRESSIVELY ASSAULTED’ “Minnesota will not be intimidated into silence and neither will I,” Walz fired back in a statement. And he charged, “Families are scared. Kids are afraid to go to school. Small businesses are hurting. A mother is dead, and the people responsible have yet to be held accountable. That’s where the energy of the federal government should be directed: toward restoring trust, accountability, and real law and order, not political retaliation.” Earlier Thursday, before his arrival in Minnesota, Vance asked, “What is wrong with Minneapolis authorities? They so hate the idea of enforcing immigration laws that they’re telling their people not to get sex offenders out of their community. It’s crazy. And it’s why we see so much chaos in Minneapolis, but not elsewhere.” Vance has been one of the most vocal members of the Trump administration defending ICE and targeting the backlash over the federal crackdown, and his trip to Minnesota is another sign that the White House isn’t backing down on its mass deportation push. After Good’s death, Vance charged that Democrats were “rallying the mob against legitimate law enforcement operations.” VOTERS SHARPLY DIVIDED OVER ICE SHOOTING IN MINNESOTA: POLL At a White House news briefing earlier this month, the vice president claimed that Good had been “brainwashed” and argued that the Minneapolis mother of three had links to a “broader, left-wing network.” Vance’s trip comes amid flagging support for ICE in a slew of recent national polls. The most recent survey, a New York Times/Siena Poll conducted Jan. 12–17 and released on Thursday, showed a slight majority approving of the job Trump is doing on the southern border with Mexico and his administration’s deportation efforts. But the president’s overall approval on the issue of immigration was underwater in the poll, with nearly two-thirds disapproving of how ICE was handling their job and 61% saying ICE’s tactics had gone too far. Vance’s stop in Minnesota also comes amid the sprawling federal fraud investigation that has led to charges against dozens of people in the state’s large Somali-American community. The fraud scandal has put Democratic leaders in the state on the defensive and convinced Walz to end his bid this year for re-election to a third term as governor. The Trump administration is keen to highlight the scandal, and Vance is expected during this stop to spotlight the recent creation of a new assistant attorney general position “to crack down on widescale fraud and abuse of taxpayer-funded programs as seen in Minnesota and several other states.” The vice president was previously in Minnesota in September, in the wake of a mass shooting at a Minneapolis-area Catholic Church. Vance traveled

State Dept moves to expand Mexico City Policy, targeting abortion, DEI and gender ideology in foreign aid

State Dept moves to expand Mexico City Policy, targeting abortion, DEI and gender ideology in foreign aid

FIRST ON FOX: The State Department is finalizing an expansion of the Mexico City Policy Friday that will bar U.S. foreign assistance from subsidizing abortion and, in a major broadening, from supporting what the administration calls gender and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, Fox News Digital learned Thursday. The Mexico City Policy is a Reagan-era U.S. rule that conditions foreign aid on recipient groups certifying they will not provide or promote abortion as a method of family planning. President Ronald Reagan first rolled the policy out in 1984 at a United Nations population conference to prevent U.S. foreign aid from being used to promote abortion in other nations.  The State Department Friday is expected to finalize three rules to expand the Mexico City Policy to protect foreign assistance from subsidizing not only abortion as a method of family planning, but also gender and DEI ideology, Fox News Digital learned.  PRO-LIFE LEADERS FIRMLY REJECT TRUMP’S CALL FOR HYDE AMENDMENT ‘FLEXIBILITY’ IN HEALTHCARE TALKS  Under previous iterations of the Mexico City Policy, U.S. funding was barred from supporting organizations that provide or promote abortion as a method of family planning. During President Donald Trump’s first term, the policy was expanded to cover roughly $8 billion in global health assistance.  The newly finalized rules go further, and cover all nonmilitary foreign assistance to the tune of more than $30 billion.  Foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international organizations receiving U.S. assistance will be required to certify that they do not provide or promote abortion as a method of family planning, promote gender ideology, promote discriminatory equity ideology, or engage in unlawful diversity, equity and inclusion–related discrimination, according to the policy framework.  TRUMP URGES GOP TO BE ‘FLEXIBLE’ ON HYDE AMENDMENT, IGNITING BACKLASH FROM PRO-LIFE ALLIES U.S.-based NGOs operating overseas will face similar certification requirements, Fox Digital learned.  Democratic presidents typically rescind the rule, as President Joe Biden did days after taking office in 2021. Republican presidents usually reinstate it, as Trump did in January 2025.  “These excessive conditions on foreign and development assistance undermine the United States’ efforts to advance gender equality globally by restricting our ability to support women’s health and programs that prevent and respond to gender-based violence,” Biden said in 2021 when defending rescinding the rule after the first Trump administration wrapped up.  The Mexico City Policy got its name due to Reagan first unveiling the policy at a U.N. conference that was held in Mexico City in 1984. The rule later became known as the “global gag rule” because it conditioned U.S. aid on groups that agreed not to provide or promote abortion as family planning, which opponents argued effectively “gags” their speech and advocacy overseas. PRO-LIFE GROUPS WARN TRUMP HYDE AMENDMENT IS ‘NON-NEGOTIABLE’ AFTER FLEXIBILITY REMARKS The expected new rules come as the annual March for Life will be held in Washington, D.C., Friday. It attracts thousands of pro-lifers in the cold winter months to march through the streets of the nation’s capital to champion protecting the unborn. Vice President JD Vance is slated to join the pro-lifers and deliver remarks.  Trump repeatedly has touted the policy, saying in 2017 that his first administration was working “to protect the unborn” by reinstating the Mexico City Policy. The addition of gender and DEI ideology to the framework follows the Trump administration’s year of work to roll back what it describes as the use of federal policy and funding to advance progressive social ideology. “We’ve ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government,” Trump celebrated in March 2025. “Our country will be woke no longer.”

Pro-life organization calls on HHS and FDA to suspend abortion pill approval, tighten safety rules

Pro-life organization calls on HHS and FDA to suspend abortion pill approval, tighten safety rules

FIRST ON FOX: Live Action, a pro-life organization, is demanding that the Trump administration take action on the distribution of and reporting on mifepristone, often colloquially called “the abortion pill.”  The group is holding a press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday to discuss concerns surrounding the abortion drug, as well as a new investigative video from Live Action that the group says documents “the dangerous real-world distribution of this drug by Planned Parenthood and affiliated providers.” The group alleges “reckless distribution” practices and argues the adverse effects of the drug are not being documented properly, if at all. In a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, Live Action said it aims to show “clear evidence of regulatory noncompliance and patient harm” and to issue a call for immediate action from HHS and the FDA. The letter urges HHS and the FDA to suspend the approval of mifepristone, prohibit the distribution of abortion pills through mail-order services and telehealth, reinstate comprehensive adverse-event reporting requirements, and release a full public accounting of the scientific and clinical evidence used to expand access to the drug. PRO-LIFE GROUPS WARN TRUMP HYDE AMENDMENT IS ‘NON-NEGOTIABLE’ AFTER FLEXIBILITY REMARKS “For more than two decades, mifepristone has remained on the market under an approval process that was politically accelerated, shielded from transparency, and repeatedly expanded without regard for patient safety, adverse event reporting, or statutory compliance,” the letter, signed by Lila Rose, Live Action founder and president, reads. The FDA currently allows mifepristone to be prescribed via telehealth appointments and distributed by mail under its risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) program. The FDA advises against buying mifepristone online outside its REMS program, warning that those who do “would be bypassing important safeguards specifically designed to protect their health.” “As previously stated, HHS is conducting a study of reported adverse events associated with mifepristone to assess whether the FDA’s risk mitigation program continues to provide appropriate protections for women,” HHS press secretary Emily Hilliard told Fox News Digital. “The FDA’s scientific review process is thorough and takes the time necessary to ensure decisions are grounded in gold-standard science. Dr. Makary is upholding that standard as part of the Department’s commitment to rigorous, evidence-based review,” she added. WYOMING SUPREME COURT RULES LAWS RESTRICTING ABORTION VIOLATE STATE CONSTITUTION The letter also references an April 2025 report issued by the Ethics & Public Policy Center (EPPC). The report claims that nearly 11% of women experience adverse side effects within 45 days of taking mifepristone, including sepsis, infection and hemorrhaging. “The real-world rate of serious adverse events following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as the summary figure of ‘less than 0.5 percent’ in clinical trials reported on the drug label,” the EPPC report summary states. Live Action also put out a video purportedly showing real calls with 27 Planned Parenthood locations across the U.S. In the video, a woman speaks with various Planned Parenthood locations about obtaining the abortion pill. The video appears to feature Planned Parenthood facilities in Alaska, Colorado, Kansas, Oregon, Minnesota, New Mexico and New York, with some states appearing multiple times. The first section shows the woman asking whether the clinics need to see ultrasounds before prescribing the pill in order to assess the gestational age of the fetus. Many of those answering the phones at the Planned Parenthood locations said women could obtain the pill without an ultrasound through a telehealth appointment. In the second section, the woman who called was told that Planned Parenthood would not test for Rhesus (Rh) incompatibility. Rh is a protein that some people carry in their blood, and it can cause issues in future pregnancies.  A form from Planned Parenthood of Greater New York dated March 2020 states that, “There is a chance you might make Rh antibodies and have problems with future pregnancies. Research has not proved this.” MORE THAN 20 GOP ATTORNEYS GENERAL CALL ON RFK JR, FDA TO REINSTATE SAFEGUARDS FOR ABORTION DRUGS Live Action’s video also purportedly showed that those who answered the phone at multiple Planned Parenthood locations assured the women that they did not need to give their medical history or attend an in-person follow-up. It was unclear if the individuals who spoke with the woman had medical training. One suggested that the woman speak to a medical professional to get more accurate information on specific questions. Those who answered the phone for clinics in multiple states also said the caller would be able to have the pills sent to another person’s house. When asked whether the pills needed to be taken right away, most said they did not, with many assuring the woman calling that she could change her mind or wait to make a decision. However, the person on the phone at one clinic said that the woman had until 12 weeks to take the pill and advised that it would not be effective after that time. Live Action released its letter and accompanying video ahead of the annual March for Life, which is scheduled for Jan. 23. Vice President JD Vance, who recently announced that he and his wife, Usha, are expecting their fourth child, is slated to speak at the march, as he did in 2025. Other speakers include House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Planned Parenthood said its health centers that offer medication abortion “follow all applicable laws and regulations and always ensure care provided reflects the latest credible research and upholds the highest standard of patient care.”  “In accordance with Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s medical standards and guidelines — which are developed and updated with medical experts across the field of sexual and reproductive health care using rigorous scientific evidence — providers at Planned Parenthood health centers explain the associated risks and benefits to patients seeking medication abortion, just as they do with