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Musk renews harsh rebuke of Dems who rejected deporting sex offenders: Vote out ‘every one’

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January 5, 2025

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Musk renews harsh rebuke of Dems who rejected deporting sex offenders: Vote out ‘every one’

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Tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk renewed criticism of the more than 150 House Democrats who voted against deporting illegal immigrants convicted of sex offenses, demanding each of the lawmakers be voted out of office.

“There is no excuse. Please post the list of people who opposed this law and want to keep illegals who are convicted sex offenders in America,” Musk posted to his X account on Saturday referencing a September House vote.

“They all need to be voted out of office. Every one of them.”

The Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act passed the House in September, after all 215 present Republicans voted in favor of the bill, and were joined by 51 Democratic colleagues. A total of 158 Democrats, however, voted against the bill.

158 DEMS VOTE AGAINST BILL TO DEPORT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO COMMIT SEX CRIMES

President-elect Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of a test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on Nov. 19, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The Democrats who voted against the bill came under scrutiny in September, and are facing renewed criticism on social media this month as commenters resurrect the vote ahead of President-elect Trump taking office this month.

“The bill targeted rapists, pedophiles, domestic abusers, and stalkers, ensuring they couldn’t stay in the U.S. Opponents claimed it ‘demonized immigrants,’ but how does protecting convicted predators help anyone – especially their victims?” X show host Mario Nawfal posted to his account Saturday, sparking Musk to weigh in.

“Deporting violent offenders isn’t ‘fearmongering’ – it’s basic public safety. Why would anyone vote to keep criminals who prey on women and children?” Nawfal added.

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The legislation would deport illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes, and would also deem illegal immigrants who admit to domestic violence or sex-related charges – or are convicted of them – to be inadmissible in the U.S., Fox Digital previously reported. The legislation is currently with the Senate, and was referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Representatives of the 119th Congress are sworn in during the first day of session in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 3, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Notable Democrats who voted against the legislation included Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., former California Rep. Adam Schiff, who now serves in the Senate, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Musk’s call for the Democrats to be voted out of Congress over the vote comes after he vowed in December to fund moderate Democratic politicians in deep blue districts, “so that the country can get rid of those who don’t represent them.”

CLYBURN BRUSHES OFF MUSK’S PLAN TO FUND MODERATES IN DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS

President-elect Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a SpaceX Starship launch on Nov. 19, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Musk is also slated to serve alongside Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an upcoming presidential advisory committee, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will work to cut excessive government spending and slash the size of the government under Trump’s second administration.

According to the office of the House clerk, the 158 Democrats who voted against the legislation are:

Alma Adams, North Carolina
Pete Aguilar, California
Gabe Amo, Rhode Island
Jake Auchincloss, Massachusetts
Becca Balint, Vermont
Nanette Barragán, California
Joyce Beatty, Ohio
Ami Bera, California
Donald Beyer, Virginia
Sanford D. Bishop Jr., Georgia
Earl Blumenauer, Oregon
Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon
Lisa Blunt Rochester, Delaware
Jamaal Bowman, New York
Shontel Brown, Ohio
Julia Brownley, California
Cori Bush, Missouri
Salud Carbajal, California
Tony Cárdenas, California
André Carson, Indiana
Troy Carter, Louisiana
Greg Casar, Texas
Ed Case, Hawaii
Sean Casten, Illinois
Kathy Castor, Florida
Joaquin Castro, Texas
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Florida
Judy Chu, California
Katherine Clark, Massachusetts
Yvette Clarke, New York
Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri
James Clyburn, South Carolina
Steve Cohen, Tennessee
Gerald Connolly, Virginia
Luis Correa, California
Jim Costa, California
Jasmine Crockett, Texas
Jason Crow, Colorado
Danny Davis, Illinois
Madeleine Dean, Pennsylvania
Diana DeGette, Colorado
Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut
Suzan DelBene, Washington
Mark DeSaulnier, California
Debbie Dingell, Michigan
Lloyd Doggett, Texas
Veronica Escobar, Texas
Anna Eshoo, California
Adriano Espaillat, New York
Lizzie Fletcher, Texas
Bill Foster, Illinois
Valerie Foushee, North Carolina
Lois Frankel, Florida
Maxwell Frost, Florida
John Garamendi, California
Jesús “Chuy” Garcia, Illinois
Robert Garcia, California
Sylvia Garcia, Texas
Dan Goldman, New York
Jimmy Gomez, California
Al Green, Texas
James Himes, Connecticut
Steny Hoyer, Maryland
Valerie Hoyle, Oregon
Jared Huffman, California
Glenn Ivey, Maryland
Jonathan Jackson, Illinois
Sara Jacobs, California
Pramila Jayapal, Washington
Hakeem Jeffries, New York
Henry “Hank” Johnson, Georgia
Sydney Kamlager-Dove, California
Bill Keating, Massachusetts
Robin Kelly, Illinois
Ro Khanna, California
Dan Kildee, Michigan
Derek Kilmer, Washington
Andy Kim, New Jersey
Raja Krishnamoorthi, Illinois
Ann Kuster, New Hampshire
Greg Landsman, Ohio
Rick Larsen, Washington
John Larson, Connecticut
Barbara Lee, California
Summer Lee, Pennsylvania
Teresa Leger Fernandez, New Mexico
Ted Lieu, California
Zoe Lofgren, California
Doris Matsui, California
Lucy McBath, Georgia
Jennifer McClellan, Virginia
Betty McCollum, Minnesota
Morgan McGarvey, Kentucky
James McGovern, Massachusetts
Gregory Meeks, New York
Rob Menendez, New Jersey
Grace Meng, New York
Kweisi Mfume, Maryland
Gwen Moore, Wisconsin
Joseph Morelle, New York
Seth Moulton, Massachusetts
Kevin Mullin, California
Jerrold Nadler, New York
Grace Napolitano, California
Richard Neal, Massachusetts
Joe Neguse, Colorado
Donald Norcross, New Jersey
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York
Ilhan Omar, Minnesota
Frank Pallone, New Jersey
Nancy Pelosi, California
Scott Peters, California
Brittany Pettersen, Colorado
Dean Phillips, Minnesota
Chellie Pingree, Maine
Mark Pocan, Wisconsin
Katie Porter, California
Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts
Mike Quigley, Illinois
Delia Ramirez, Illinois
Jamie Raskin, Maryland
Deborah Ross, North Carolina
Raul Ruiz, California
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland
Linda Sánchez, California
John Sarbanes, Maryland
Mary Scanlon, Pennsylvania
Janice Schakowsky, Illinois
Adam Schiff, California
Bradley Schneider, Illinois
Robert “Bobby” Scott, Virginia
David Scott, Georgia
Terri Sewell, Alabama
Brad Sherman, California
Darren Soto, Florida
Melanie Stansbury, New Mexico
Haley Stevens, Michigan
Marilyn Strickland, Washington
Mark Takano, California
Shri Thanedar, Michigan
Mike Thompson, California
Bennie Thompson, Mississippi
Rashida Tlaib, Michigan
Jill Tokuda, Hawaii
Paul Tonko, New York
Norma Torres, California
Ritchie Torres, New York
Lori Trahan, Massachusetts
David Trone, Maryland
Lauren Underwood, Illinois
Juan Vargas, California
Marc Veasey, Texas
Nydia Velázquez, New York
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida
Maxine Waters, California
Bonnie Watson Coleman, New Jersey
Nikema Williams, Georgia
Frederica Wilson, Florida

The Democrats who voted against the legislation came under fierce scrutiny in September from conservatives.

“If you vote against it, you’re sexist against women,” South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace, who introduced the legislation, said in September to Fox Digital.

Migrants attempt to cross into the U.S. from Mexico at the border Dec. 17, 2023 in Jacumba Hot Springs, California. (Nick Ut/Getty Images)

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“I mean, truly, because we’re talking about illegals who are here who are committing domestic violence, rape and murder on women and children – they’ve gotta go. They shouldn’t be allowed into our country.”

“158 Democrats just voted AGAINST deporting migrants for s*x offenses. This is a slap in the face to every victim and their family members. Democrats hate you and your children,” popular conservative X account Libs of TikTok posted at the time.

Democrats who voted against the bill characterized it as xenophobic and an example of “fearmongering” against immigrants.

“Here we are again, debating another partisan bill that fear mongers about immigrants, instead of working together to fix the immigration system,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said during debate on the bill.

“I probably shouldn’t be too surprised. Scapegoating immigrants and attempting to weaponize the crime of domestic violence is appearing to be a time-honored tradition for Republicans.”

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.

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Trump signs order to protect Venezuela oil revenue held in US accounts

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January 10, 2026

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Trump signs order to protect Venezuela oil revenue held in US accounts

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order blocking U.S. courts from seizing Venezuelan oil revenues held in American Treasury accounts.

The order states that court action against the funds would undermine U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives.

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President Donald Trump is pictured signing two executive orders on Sept. 19, 2025, establishing the “Trump Gold Card” and introducing a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. He signed another executive order recently protecting oil revenue. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump signed the order on Friday, the same day that he met with nearly two dozen top oil and gas executives at the White House.

The president said American energy companies will invest $100 billion to rebuild Venezuela’s “rotting” oil infrastructure and push production to record levels following the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

The U.S. has moved aggressively to take control of Venezuela’s oil future following the collapse of the Maduro regime.

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Column: Some leaders will do anything to cling to positions of power

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January 10, 2026

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Column: Some leaders will do anything to cling to positions of power

One of the most important political stories in American history — one that is particularly germane to our current, tumultuous time — unfolded in Los Angeles some 65 years ago.

Sen. John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, had just received his party’s nomination for president and in turn he shunned the desires of his most liberal supporters by choosing a conservative out of Texas as his running mate. He did so in large part to address concerns that his faith would somehow usurp his oath to uphold the Constitution. The last time the Democrats nominated a Catholic — New York Gov. Al Smith in 1928 — he lost in a landslide, so folks were more than a little jittery about Kennedy’s chances.

“I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk,” Kennedy told the crowd at the Memorial Coliseum. “But I look at it this way: The Democratic Party has once again placed its confidence in the American people, and in their ability to render a free, fair judgment.”

The most important part of the story is what happened before Kennedy gave that acceptance speech.

While his faith made party leaders nervous, they were downright afraid of the impact a civil rights protest during the Democratic National Convention could have on November’s election. This was 1960. The year began with Black college students challenging segregation with lunch counter sit-ins across the Deep South, and by spring the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee had formed. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was not the organizer of the protest at the convention, but he planned to be there, guaranteeing media attention. To try to prevent this whole scene, the most powerful Black man in Congress was sent to stop him.

The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was also a warrior for civil rights, but the House representative preferred the legislative approach, where backroom deals were quietly made and his power most concentrated. He and King wanted the same things for Black people. But Powell — who was first elected to Congress in 1944, the same year King enrolled at Morehouse College at the age of 15 — was threatened by the younger man’s growing influence. He was also concerned that his inability to stop the protest at the convention would harm his chance to become chairman of a House committee.

And so Powell — the son of a preacher, and himself a Baptist preacher in Harlem — told King that if he didn’t cancel, Powell would tell journalists a lie that King was having a homosexual affair with his mentor, Bayard Rustin. King stuck to his plan and led a protest — even though such a rumor would not only have harmed King, but also would have undermined the credibility of the entire civil rights movement. Remember, this was 1960. Before the March on Washington, before passage of the Voting Rights Act, before the dismantling of the very Jim Crow laws Powell had vowed to dismantle when first running for office.

That threat, my friends, is the most important part of the story.

It’s not that Powell didn’t want the best for the country. It’s just that he wanted to be seen as the one doing it and was willing to derail the good stemming from the civil rights movement to secure his own place in power. There have always been people willing to make such trade-offs. Sometimes they dress up their intentions with scriptures to make it more palatable; other times they play on our darkest fears. They do not care how many people get hurt in the process, even if it’s the same people they profess to care for.

That was true in Los Angeles in 1960.

That was true in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.

That is true in the streets of America today.

Whether we are talking about an older pastor who is threatened by the growing influence of a younger voice or a president clinging to office after losing an election: To remain king, some men are willing to burn the entire kingdom down.

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Federal judge blocks Trump from cutting childcare funds to Democratic states over fraud concerns

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January 10, 2026

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Federal judge blocks Trump from cutting childcare funds to Democratic states over fraud concerns

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A federal judge Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from stopping subsidies on childcare programs in five states, including Minnesota, amid allegations of fraud.

U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, a Biden appointee, didn’t rule on the legality of the funding freeze, but said the states had met the legal threshold to maintain the “status quo” on funding for at least two weeks while arguments continue.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it would withhold funds for programs in five Democratic states over fraud concerns.

The programs include the Child Care and Development Fund, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, and the Social Services Block Grant, all of which help needy families.

USDA IMMEDIATELY SUSPENDS ALL FEDERAL FUNDING TO MINNESOTA AMID FRAUD INVESTIGATION

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it would withhold funds for programs in five Democratic states over fraud concerns. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

“Families who rely on childcare and family assistance programs deserve confidence that these resources are used lawfully and for their intended purpose,” HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill said in a statement on Tuesday.

The states, which include California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York, argued in court filings that the federal government didn’t have the legal right to end the funds and that the new policy is creating “operational chaos” in the states.

U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian at his nomination hearing in 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

In total, the states said they receive more than $10 billion in federal funding for the programs.

HHS said it had “reason to believe” that the programs were offering funds to people in the country illegally.

‘TIP OF THE ICEBERG’: SENATE REPUBLICANS PRESS GOV WALZ OVER MINNESOTA FRAUD SCANDAL

The table above shows the five states and their social safety net funding for various programs which are being withheld by the Trump administration over allegations of fraud. (AP Digital Embed)

New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is leading the lawsuit, called the ruling a “critical victory for families whose lives have been upended by this administration’s cruelty.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is leading the lawsuit, called the ruling a “critical victory for families whose lives have been upended by this administration’s cruelty.” (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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