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New anti-Trump crime cleanup protests echo defund the police movement that rocked 2020
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The 2020-era defund the police movement is echoing across the nation yet again as Democratic lawmakers and activists decry the Trump administration’s efforts to snuff out crime in cities such as Washington, D.C., while readying similar efforts in jurisdictions long notorious for violent crimes.
Democrats in blue strongholds such as Chicago and Baltimore have bucked President Donald Trump’s plans to send in National Guard troops to help deter crime, including calling plans to incarcerate criminals a lost cause that would not lead to a more peaceful community.
Fox News Digital spoke with Crime Prevention Research Center founder John Lott, who said resistance to Trump’s anti-crime blitz echoes the defund the police movement since both narratives reject the idea that tougher consequences for criminals leads to fewer crimes.
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«I think they’re the same type of argument. Maybe it’s a matter of degree in terms of the difference,» Lott said in a phone interview Wednesday. «But the notion is: Will higher arrest rates, higher conviction rates, longer prison sentences, will that make it riskier for criminals to commit crime and deter crime?
«You have people like Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, saying that prison doesn’t work, that that doesn’t deter crime. He just calls it racist to go and put people in jail for committing crimes.
Democrats in blue strongholds such as Chicago and Baltimore have bucked President Donald Trump’s plans to send in National Guard troops to help deter crime. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)
«The attorney general for (Washington, D.C.) says that having more police is unneeded, and it’s unnecessary for that. And so they don’t see a connection between making it riskier for criminals to go and commit crime and the amount of crime that’s occurring,» he continued, explaining the similarities between the 2020 defund movement and 2025’s opposition to Trump’s anti-crime initiative.
Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign heavily focused on cleaning up crime-riddled cities after the violent wave of 2020 that left an excess of Americans dead as anti-police and Black Lives Matter protests and riots broke out in cities nationwide.
After roughly seven months back in the Oval Office, those campaign promises are becoming reality, with Democrat lawmakers and liberal activists decrying the crime crackdowns with protests and legal challenges along the way. Fox News Digital took a look back at the 2020 defund narrative and its consequences and how the era stacks up compared to the recent rhetoric against Trump’s crime crackdown.
‘An obligation’
Trump federalized Washington, D.C.’s police department in August, which included the National Guard flooding the capital’s streets to patrol the area and federal law enforcement agents from departments, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives assisting in arrests.
Trump is in the midst of determining when to send the National Guard to help patrol chronically crime-addled Chicago, he said Tuesday, while other cities such as Baltimore are anticipated to see similar crackdowns.
Armed National Guard members patrol near the U.S. Capitol as security tightens following President Trump’s deployment order. (Getty Images/Tasos Katopodis)
«I have an obligation,» Trump said Tuesday of his law and order initiative in crime-filled cities. «This isn’t a political thing.»
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Democrats have resisted Trump’s crime plan, with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker scoffing at the idea of sending the National Guard to Chicago and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore inviting Trump to walk the streets of Baltimore to ostensibly show him the city is safe.
«I would love to have Gov. Pritzker call me. I’d gain respect for him. And say, ‘We do have a problem, and we’d love you to send in the troops because, you know what, the people, they have to be protected,’» Trump said Tuesday while fielding questions from the media at a White House event.
Chicago and Baltimore are two of the nation’s most notoriously violent cities, with Baltimore ranked as the fourth most dangerous city to live in the U.S., according to a U.S. News and World Report study published in 2025. Chicago is reeling from a bloody Labor Day weekend that left at least 58 people shot and eight killed. In 2021, Chicago recorded its deadliest year since 1996, with data published by the city showing crime has ticked down in the Windy City since about 2023.
«No, I will not call the president asking him to send troops to Chicago,» Pritzker said Tuesday. «I’ve made that clear already.»
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson argued locking criminals up is «racist» and «immoral.»
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson argues locking criminals up is «racist» and «immoral.» (Charles Rex Arbogast/The Associted Press)
«We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence; we’ve already tried that, and we’ve ended up with the largest prison population in the world without solving the problems of crime and violence,» Johnson said during an August press conference, the New York Post reported.
«The addiction on jails and incarceration in this country, we’ve moved past that,» he said. «It is racist, it is immoral, it is unholy, and it is not the way to drive violence down.»
The sentiment echoes the rhetoric of 2020, when activists and supporters of the defund the police movement championed cutting police budgets and redirecting the funds to community services such as housing, education, mental health services and community-based responders who would manage certain emergency calls such as a mental health crisis instead of police officers. Proponents of the movement argued such reallocation of police funds would wipe out crime and foster peace, as opposed to arresting and prosecuting criminals.
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The year 2020 was a whirlwind underscored by a massive federal election, the COVID-19 pandemic that upended society with unprecedented government-mandated lockdowns that kept American workers and school children at home and a bloody crime wave that rocked the nation from coast to coast as activists heralded the «defund» narrative.
A 2025 sentiment is echoing the rhetoric of 2020, when activists and supporters of the defund the police movement championed cutting police budgets and redirecting the funds to community services. (Getty Images)
Nationwide, murders increased by nearly 30% in 2020 compared to 2019, which notched the largest single-year increase in killings since the FBI began tracking the crimes, according to agency data at the time. The spike in murders came as activists nationwide took to the streets that summer to protest police departments in response to the police-involved killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day 2020.
Floyd’s death, as well as the deaths of other Black Americans during police stops or interactions, reignited the Black Lives Matter movement, founded in 2013, which has called for defunding police departments stretching back more than a decade concerning claims the U.S. justice system and policing overall are rooted in systemic racism.
Cities from Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco to Atlanta saw repeated protests demanding police departments be defunded, while riots broke out amid the protests that led to businesses being destroyed and an increase in attacks on police officers as the sentiment in the U.S. toward the officers in blue soured.
Portland, Oregon, saw 100 nights of protests and riots that summer, while Seattle rioters took over a police precinct and declared it the «Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,» which was fortified by barriers and established as a cop-free zone. At least two teenagers were shot dead and others were injured as violence broke out that summer.
Lawmakers such as former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats like New York Sen. Chuck Schumer voiced support for police reforms and others took a knee on the Capitol’s floor while wearing Kente cloth stoles in support of a police reform package introduced in response to Floyd’s death.
Other lawmakers openly called for police departments to be defunded, most notably members of the House’s left-wing faction of the party known as the «Squad.»
«The ‘defund the police’ movement is one of reimagining the current police system to build an entity that does not violate us, while relocating funds to invest in community services,» Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of the «Squad,» posted to X in June 2020. «Let’s be clear, the people who now oppose this, have always opposed calls for systematic change.»
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«Defunding the police has to happen,» former Democratic «Squad» member and Missouri Rep. Cori Bush told CBS News in August 2021. «We need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets because we’re trying to save lives.»
People walk in Washington, D.C., after «defund the police» was painted on the street near the White House June 8, 2020. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Cities such as New York and Seattle slashed police budgets in response to the calls, with local leaders soon after reversing course as violent crimes such as carjackings and murders soared.
Amid the defund the police rhetoric and protests, police morale cratered as lawmakers and locals backed away from supporting them. Cops retired en masse, while others moved from cities witnessing repeat protests to departments in states offering continued support for the police.
Departments nationwide were left with persistent understaffing issues, including in large departments such as Philadelphia and Chicago.
‘Unprecedented’
In 2025, in response to Trump’s anti-crime initiative in cities such as D.C., protests have formed to denounce the mission, in addition to some Democratic lawmakers vocally rejecting National Guard members from patrolling the streets.
Protesters have marched from DuPont Circle to the White House in opposition to the federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department and held «Free DC» gatherings aimed at removing the National Guard from the capital and ending the current federal control of the police department.
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb additionally filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for federalizing D.C. under Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act and against Attorney General Pam Bondi’s order to install the DEA head as the emergency commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force. Schwalb called the moves «brazenly unlawful» that could «wreak operational havoc» on the Metropolitan Police Department.
Washington, D.C., leaders initially disapproved of Trump federalizing the local police department Aug. 11, with Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser calling the move «unprecedented,» «an intrusion on our autonomy» and characterizing it as an «authoritarian push» before changing her tune and earning the praise of the president.
The city saw a 13-day period free of homicides after Trump’s crackdown, with Bowser rattling off how other crimes have dropped since Aug. 11 during a press conference Tuesday supporting the president’s mission to clean up the city.
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«For carjackings, the difference between this period, this 20-day period of this federal surge and last year represents an 87% reduction in carjackings in Washington, D.C.,» she said. «We know that when carjackings go down, when use of gun goes down. When homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer. So, this surge has been important to us for that reason.
A group of protesters on electric unicycles rode through Lafayette Park near the White House carrying the Chicago flag after President Donald Trump alluded to sending the National Guard to Chicago and other major U.S. cities. (Fox News Digital/Emma Woodhead)
«This is what we think in just a couple of weeks of experience has worked,» Bowser added. «Having more federal law enforcement officers on the street — we think having more stops that got to illegal guns has helped. We think that there is more accountability in the system, or at least perceived accountability in the system, that is driving down illegal behavior. We know that we have had fewer gun crimes, fewer homicides, and we have experienced an extreme reduction in carjackings.»
She did take issue with facets of the federalization, such as the use of masked ICE agents in neighborhoods and said relying on out-of-state National Guard troops in D.C. communities was inefficient.
Trump on Tuesday lauded Bowser for her assistance, calling her and other local leaders such as the police commissioner a «great team.»
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Lott told Fox Digital that even if the federalization of D.C. ends Sept. 11, after the predetermined 30-day time period runs dry, the initiative will have lasting effects as many criminals have already been removed from the streets. There have been at least 1,669 arrests in D.C. since the federal crackdown began.
National Guard members stood among protesters at Union Station in Washington Aug. 31, 2025. (Fox News Digital/Emma Woodhead)
«It’s a mystery to me how Democrats can take that side of that issue, given that even Mayor Bowser now is saying what a success it’s been,» Lott said. «But you do have some longer-lasting effects that will be there, and one of them is the fact that you’ve already arrested and taken off the street a lot of these criminals. You’ve also arrested and caught, you know, a lot of illegal aliens that were there committing crimes.
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«I assume some of the illegals have moved out of the area, because it’s no longer effectively, or at least for a period of time, been a sanctuary area,» he said. «Now, whether some of them move back again when these, if these policies are allowed to change back, I don’t know. But at least you’re going to have some longer run impact from from this, even if, even if it were to end» Sept. 11.
Fox News Digital’s Breanne Deppisch and Diana Stancy contributed to this report.
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Donald Trump amenaza a Irán con “fuego, muerte y furia” si sigue interfiriendo con el paso de petróleo en el Estrecho de Ormuz
Apremiado por lograr un final rápido de la guerra y controlar el impacto que el conflicto esta produciendo en el sistema energético mundial y especialmente entre los votantes norteamericanos, el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, amenazó este martes con desatar “muerte, fuego y furia” sobre Irán si continúa interfiriendo en la circulación de petróleo por el estratégico estrecho de Ormuz.
Ese paso junto a la costa iraní, que en su segmento más estrecho tiene apenas tres kilómetros de ancho, es por donde circula un quinto de todo el petróleo que consume el planeta, una cantidad similar de gas licuado y 27 por ciento de todos los fertilizantes, un aspecto que ha disparado preocupación por el impacto en sector agropecuario.
Ormuz no está cerrado, pero la guerra lo ha hecho inconveniente y existen amenazas reiteradas de la Guardia Revolucionaria contra los buques cisterna. El régimen reaccionó con dureza y advirtió que “no permitirán la exportación de un solo litro de petróleo de la región a la parte hostil y sus aliados hasta nuevo aviso”, según el vocero esa fuerza militar iraní.
Trump el lunes llamó al líder ruso Vladimir Putin, un aliado y socio estratégico de Irán pero también cercano a la Casa Blanca, aparentemente por el grave problema del crudo. Este martes el líder ruso llamó al mandatario iraní, Massoud Pezeshkian y su canciller, Serguéi Lavrov, habló con el colega persa, Abbas Araghchi, con el mismo propósito mediador. Sin embargo el ministro iraní se mostró distante. Sostuvo en declaraciones públicas que EE.UU. e Israel no tienen “un final realista en mente” y remarcó que los ataques con misiles “continuaran el tiempo que sea necesario, hablar o negociar con EE.UU. ya no está en la agenda”.
Trump, furioso, afirmó que “si Irán hace algo que detenga el flujo de petróleo en el Estrecho de Ormuz, Estados Unidos lo golpeará veinte veces más fuerte que hasta ahora. Además, eliminaremos objetivos fácilmente destructibles que harán prácticamente imposible que Irán se reconstruya como nación. La muerte, el fuego y la furia reinarán sobre ellos”, escribió en su red Truth Social. Añadió: “¡Espero y rezo para que eso no suceda! Este es un regalo de EE.UU. a China y a todas las naciones que utilizan intensamente el Estrecho de Ormuz. Esperemos que sea un gesto muy apreciado”.
En otro mensaje elevó la amenaza al sostener que “si Irán ha colocado minas en el Estrecho de Ormuz, de lo cual no tenemos reportes, que las retire inmediatamente” de lo contrario “las consecuencias militares serán de niveles nunca antes vistos”.
El lunes, en la apertura de los mercados tras la primera semana de la guerra, el petróleo saltó a casi 120 dólares el barril, nivel sin precedentes desde 2020, y luego cayó a alrededor de 85 dólares después de que Trump dijo que la “guerra esta casi terminada”, un punto que desmintió este martes el premier israelí Benjamín Netanyahu.
Trump, sin embargo luego corrigió su declaración, para sostener que todavía queda mucho por hacer, de modo que el carburante volvió a subir, estacionándose en los 87,8 dólares, por encima de los valores previos al conflicto. Las declaraciones de Trump de este martes sobre Ormuz tranquilizaron al mercado, afirman los analistas, las bolsas subieron y el petróleo no se movió. Contribuyó a la calma un anunció del ministro de energía, Chris Wright, respecto a que los buques cisterna eran escoltados por la marina de EE.UU. Pero la Casa Blanca desmintió al funcionario.
EE.UU. e Israel atacaron Irán el sábado 28 de febrero cuando restaba una ronda crucial en las negociaciones nucleares con la potencia persa que debía realizarse el lunes. Washington argumentó que ese dialogo estaba fracasando, al revés de lo que señalaban los mediadores. En el ataque, el máximo líder iraní, ayatollah Alí Khamenei murió junto con parte del liderazgo del país. Khamenei fue reemplazado de inmediato por un triunvirato y esta semana por su hijo Mojtaba, un halcón del régimen, contrario a cualquier salida moderada.
Irán advirtió en estas horas que utilizará misiles aún más poderosos al tiempo que discutió como inútil por el momento cualquier negociación con Washington. La Guardia Revolucionaria, a su vez, rechazó las insistentes afirmaciones de EE.UU. de que su programa de misiles ha sido destruido y comentó que por le contrario está desplegando proyectiles en mayor cantidad y con ojivas que pesan más de una tonelada.
Irán ha lanzado ataques con drones y misiles contra países de toda la región, especialmente a infraestructuras energéticas, incluyendo yacimientos petrolíferos en Bahrein y Arabia Saudita. También golpeo hoteles y centros residenciales. Dos de sus misiles llegaron a Turquía pero los derribó la OTAN.
El ejército iraní afirma haber lanzado también un ataque con aviones sin piloto contra una refinería de petróleo y gas israelí y tanques de combustible en Haifa. Entre tanto, la noche del lunes al martes fue de las más feroces sobre Teherán. “Atacaron con fuerza. En nuestra casa solo se ven grietas en las paredes. Dormir se ha vuelto lo más difícil”, dijeron residentes a la BBC.
Fuente: AFP, AP, EFE y ANSA
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Hezbollah and Iran launched a coordinated strike strategy Tuesday, a national security expert claimed, as reports emerged that deadly cluster munitions were hitting Israel in synchronized attacks.
The developments unfolded on day 11 of Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion, the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign targeting Iran, marking a potential escalation in the widening regional conflict.
«Hezbollah has fully joined the war, and it looks like they are now very well coordinated with Iran,» Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and the Misgav Institute, told Fox News Digital while speaking from his bomb shelter near Tel Aviv.
«Most of Hezbollah’s rockets and drones are launched simultaneously with the Iranian missiles,» he said.
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Explosions from projectile interceptions by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system over Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ / AFP via Getty Images)
Israel confirmed Tuesday that Iran had been firing cluster munitions — adding a complicated and deadly challenge to Israel’s stretched air defenses, The Associated Press reported.
The warheads burst open at high altitudes, scattering dozens of smaller bomblets across a wide area. The smaller bombs, which at night can resemble orange fireballs, are difficult to intercept and have proven lethal.
Fox News correspondent Nate Foy also said despite Israel’s strong air defense, half of the missiles are hard to defend against because half of the missiles are cluster munitions.
«The Iranian use of cluster missiles and the idea that they deliberately target civilians and civil facilities must be considered as a use of non-conventional weapons, and the American-Israeli response must be appropriate,» Michael urged.
Banned by more than 120 nations under the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, the weapons are widely condemned for their broad-area, indiscriminate effects that often result in catastrophic civilian harm.
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Smoke and dust rise after an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, Lebanon. ( REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir)
Michael spoke as Reuters reported Hezbollah was applying lessons from its last war with Israel as it prepares for a possible full-scale Israeli invasion and protracted conflict.
It said sources claimed the group was returning to its roots in guerrilla warfare in south Lebanon.
«Operating in small units, fighters from the Iran-backed group are avoiding the use of communication devices that could be at risk of Israeli tapping and are rationing the use of key anti-tank rockets as they engage Israeli troops,» said the sources, familiar with Hezbollah military activities.
Michael also said that the «north of the country, toward the Haifa area, is under heavy bombing.»
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Hezbollah terrorists are taking part in cross-border raids, part of a large-scale military exercise, in Aaramta, bordering Israel, on May 21, 2023 ahead of the anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000. (Fadel Itani/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
«Israeli citizens have to spend most of the time in the shelter rooms as Hezbollah and Iran deliberately target civilians and civilian facilities,» he said.
«Tel Aviv is still under an emergency routine, with sirens continuing and many people spending a lot of time in the bomb shelter rooms,» he added before highlighting that «Israel is a small country and will not be able to continue containing such asymmetry and this type of attrition war.»
As of Tuesday night local time, the IDF said it had launched a wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
This came after the military reiterated its warning to evacuate the area, a Hezbollah stronghold known as the Dahiyeh.
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In a post shared on X, the IDF said: «This is what we’re operating against.»
Reuters sources also claimed much of Hezbollah’s fighting on the ground had been focused so far near the town of Khiyam, near the intersection of Lebanon’s border with Israel and Syria.
This is one area where Hezbollah believes any Israeli land invasion could begin. Hezbollah’s elite Radwan fighters, who withdrew from the south following the 2024 ceasefire, had also returned to the area, it said.
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A man carries shoes from his destroyed house that was hit by Israeli airstrikes hit several houses in Sir al-Gharbiyeh village south Lebanon, Sunday, March, 8, 2026. (Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo)
«Israel will no doubt take control over a wide territory in south Lebanon, from the international border to the Litani River, in order to establish a security buffer zone,» Michael said.
«This will prevent Hezbollah from attacking the Israeli villages and towns in the north of the country and will intensify the attacks against Hezbollah all over Lebanon,» Michael added.
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«We hope that President Trump will not stop or use the formula he used with the Houthis, declaring victory and leaving the wounded lion incapable of revenge and/or reconstituting itself.»
Meanwhile, an Israeli military official, speaking anonymously under army briefing rules, said Tuesday that roughly half of the projectiles Iran was launching toward Israel were now cluster bombs, The Associated Press said.
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Trump urges Congress to pass SAVE America Act, fully fund DHS as TSA workers go without pay
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President Donald Trump is urging Congress to pass the SAVE America Act (SAA) as well as restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as more than 100,000 federal employees go without pay during a prolonged funding lapse, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday.
Leavitt outlined the president’s dual push for sweeping election legislation and immediate action to reopen DHS, where employees have missed paychecks and travelers are facing long airport lines.
The SAA would move through Congress as election legislation, while DHS funding requires a separate vote to reopen the department and resume full operations.
Leavitt described the SAA as «one of the most critical pieces of legislation in our nation’s history.»
«The Save America Act is overwhelmingly popular with all Americans because each provision is rooted in common sense,» she said.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions during a news briefing, Tuesday, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
According to Leavitt, the legislation includes five core provisions: requiring voters to show identification to cast a ballot, requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, ending universal mail-in ballots while maintaining exceptions for illness, disability, military service and travel, permanently banning biological males from competing in women’s sports, and banning transgender surgery for minors.
On voter ID requirements, Leavitt said the proposal reflects broad public support.
«Voters have to show ID to cast a ballot in an American election. Very simple,» she said. «Ninety percent of Americans, including more than 80% of Democrat voters, agree with this.»
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions during Tuesday’s press briefing. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
The legislation would also require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
«The Save America Act will require all voters to show proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in American elections,» Leavitt said. «Again, this is popular and rooted in common sense. Only American citizens have the right to vote in American elections.»
Leavitt said Trump is urging Congress to «get the job done and send this historic piece of legislation to his desk immediately for signature.»
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
She also pushed back on claims that the legislation could prevent married women who changed their last names from voting.
«There is zero validity to these claims,» Leavitt said. «The Save America Act does not prohibit anyone from voting, with the exception of illegal aliens.
«As far as married women who have changed their name, if they’re already registered to vote, they’re entirely unaffected by the Save Act,» she added.
Leavitt also turned to the ongoing funding lapse at the DHS, saying the president wants Congress to move quickly to restore pay for affected workers and fully reopen the department.
«President Trump wants the Department of Homeland Security — he wants TSA, he wants FEMA. He wants the brave men and women of our United States Coast Guard to receive their paychecks,» she said.
Leavitt says President Trump wants Congress to move quickly to restore pay for affected workers during the partial shutdown of DHS. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
More than 100,000 employees across the country have been impacted, she noted, acknowledging the strain on families.
«To any American out there who is struggling without a paycheck, we know there’s more than 100,000 of you across the country,» Leavitt said.
She added that the lapse is also affecting travelers nationwide.
«To any American out there who is showing up to an airport and facing incredibly long wait times in lines,» she said, Trump is calling on Congress to restore funding and reopen the department.
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The president wants DHS «fully funded and fully reopened,» Leavitt said.
DHS oversees agencies including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Coast Guard, all of which have personnel affected by the funding lapse.
Trump is pressing lawmakers to act on both fronts, with Leavitt saying the president is calling on Congress to move swiftly to deliver both measures.
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