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Trump admin axes ties to dozens of progressive groups in ‘direct opposition’ to mission: ‘Decisive action’
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FIRST ON FOX: The Department of the Interior is cutting 43 partnerships with outside groups it says no longer align with the Trump administration’s priorities, eliminating more than $4 million in planned funding for programs tied to DEI, environmental justice and support services for illegal immigrants.
Led by Secretary Doug Burgum, the department determined the agreements were «operating in direct opposition» to its mission, according to a press release obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital.
«Under Secretary Burgum, the Department of the Interior is ending partnerships with groups that no longer represent the priorities of the American people,» the department said. In response, DOI said it is terminating all agreements with the identified groups and removing references to them from its websites.
The terminated agreements supported internship programs, conservation initiatives, research projects and cooperative partnerships.
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U.S. President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A department-wide review launched in March uncovered nearly 3,000 active agreements with about 2,000 outside groups, ranging from NGOs and nonprofits to private entities and educational institutions.
The review later found multiple groups «did not appear to provide a clear benefit» or «did not align with the department’s mission,» according to the department.
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Among the groups targeted were the Hispanic Access Foundation, which offers scholarships for illegal immigrant Latino students, and Latino Outdoors, which the department said provided instructions on avoiding detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Latino Outdoors has advocated against oil and gas development, while the Hispanic Access Foundation has worked with the National Park Service «to conduct a variety of educational and cultural support activities,» according to the department.
The department cited the American Alliance of Museums, which it said had a contract with the NPS to build DEI programs across national parks as part of the agency’s Community Engagement initiative. The department pointed to the group’s previous Facing Change initiative, which promoted DEI efforts at museums.
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Conservation International, an environmental group that the department said advocates for a «total phase out of fossil fuels,» was also flagged. The department noted the organization’s statements describing fossil fuels as the «leading culprit» of planet-warming carbon emissions, as well as its support for environmental justice and equity-focused climate policies.
Another group on the department’s list was The Cultural Landscape Foundation, which it said has a master cooperative agreement with the NPS «to conduct a variety of educational and cultural support activities.» The organization has opposed several administration initiatives, including suing over changes at the Kennedy Center, criticizing plans for a White House ballroom and highlighting cultural landscapes and historic sites it says are threatened by administration actions through its Landslide 2026: Erasing American History initiative.
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«Under President Trump and Secretary Burgum, the Department of the Interior is taking decisive action to ensure its partnerships and resources support the priorities of this administration and the interests of the American people,» Matthew Middleton, principal deputy communications director and director of research, told Fox News Digital.
«As part of that commitment, the Department is ending relationships with organizations whose advocacy for phasing out baseload energy, defunding law enforcement services, and promoting racially preferential programs directly conflicts with this administration’s priorities. Interior will continue to invest in partnerships that expand access to public lands, promote responsible stewardship, and deliver tangible benefits to the American people.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the Hispanic Access Foundation, Latino Outdoors, the American Alliance of Museums, Conservation International and the Cultural Landscape Foundation for comment.
Other groups the DOI is cutting ties with include: The Green Schools Alliance, Doris Duke Foundation, Hispanic Access Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, California Native Plant Society, American Alliance of Museums, Clean Ocean Action and the National Geographic Society.
The move is the latest in a series of administration actions, including efforts to roll back DEI initiatives, strengthen immigration enforcement and expand energy development. The department said it will ensure future partnerships align with the agency’s mission.
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Trump admin yanks funding from LA homeless agency amid explosive fraud probe: ‘Necessary step’
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EXCLUSIVE: A top Trump agency is cutting off funding to the Los Angeles agency responsible for coordinating billions in homelessness spending after accusing it of «obvious fraud,» «wanton mismanagement» and repeated failures to safeguard taxpayer dollars, Fox News Digital has learned.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which is a member of the White House fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance, is immediately suspending the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s (LAHSA) federal funding while HUD’s inspector general investigates potential offenses by the agency and its leadership, according to a letter sent to LAHSA’s board chair Wendy Greuel and its CEO Gita O’Neill, which was obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital.
The letter detailed conflicts of interest, financial mismanagement, fraud, lack of oversight, and more from the homelessness agency, which has faced efforts by the city and county to take it over.
The move puts one of the country’s biggest homelessness bureaucracies under direct federal scrutiny after years of criticism that billions have gone into homelessness programs in Los Angeles while the crisis remains entrenched on the streets. LAHSA receives funding at the city, county, state and federal level, with the group getting nearly $1 billion from just the federal government since 2021, according to HUD.
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A person walks amid large trash piles at a sprawling homeless encampment near East 14th Street in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
«Suspending LAHSA’s participation in federal government programs is a necessary step in accomplishing that critical mission in Los Angeles,» HUD wrote in the letter. «LAHSA’s failures have been so severe and pervasive that Los Angeles County has withdrawn its funding for the agency, and the City of Los Angeles is considering doing so as well.»
LAHSA’s former top executive, Va Lecia Adams Kellum, resigned last year after she was found to have been a party to directing $2.1 million in federal funds under LAHSA’s control to her husband’s Santa Monica-based nonprofit employer.
HUD says a federal judge last year also concluded that LAHSA had committed «obvious fraud» after it allegedly kept requesting funding for an 88-bed shelter even though it knew the shelter was operating at roughly half-capacity.
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HUD noted in its letter that the judge considered placing LAHSA into receivership as well.
LAHSA’s inability to verify the existence of nearly 2,300 housing sites for which it was responsible is another recent issue that has plagued the homelessness provider, according to HUD, which said 70% of the contracts for those sites did not disclose any expenses over the prior year.
Homeless encampments line the boardwalk at Venice Beach in Los Angeles amid ongoing concerns about crime and quality of life issues. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority will conduct its annual point-in-time count to assess the number of unhoused people in the region. (Reuters)
Public audits of LAHSA, meanwhile, found a pattern of routinely paying service providers late and poor record keeping preventing it from monitoring contracts, including $5 million in cash advances sent to five different service providers, according to the Associated Press. In November 2024, the City Controller’s Office found that LAHSA failed to spend $513 million in public funds budgeted in fiscal year 2024, blaming a lack of staff and old technology, according to HUD.
«Under President Trump’s leadership, HUD will fund results, not corrupt failure or the homeless industrial complex,» HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement to Fox News Digital. «Year after year, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were funneled to LAHSA with little accountability. Meanwhile, homelessness skyrocketed. Taxpayers will no longer bankroll an organization that puts its own self-interests ahead of the Americans it was created to serve.»
Other audits concluded that LAHSA’s poor record keeping made it unable to accurately identify or calculate how well its spending has been benefiting the homeless population in Los Angeles.
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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who is the vice chair of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, praised the leadership on this issue from HUD Secretary Scott Turner, President Donald Trump and Vance, who serves as the chairman of the fraud task force that was established earlier this year.
«Los Angeles didn’t care about helping the homeless, but the Trump Administration does,» Ferguson told Fox News Digital. «It is unconscionable that Los Angeles has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars that was supposed to be used on housing our nation’s most vulnerable. Instead of providing a roof and care for the homeless, Los Angeles has used these funds to line the pockets of left-wing NGOs. Such a disgrace ends today.»
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles officials have pointed to recent homeless-count data as evidence that the crisis has begun to improve, with LAHSA reporting that countywide homelessness fell for a second straight year in 2025 and Bass saying it marked the first time in the city’s recent history that homelessness had declined two years in a row.
But the numbers still showed more than 72,000 people experiencing homelessness across Los Angeles County, and critics have continued to argue that modest declines do not erase years of runaway spending, encampments and repeated audit findings that the region’s homelessness system has failed to adequately track whether taxpayer dollars are producing results.
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The federal action from HUD comes after Los Angeles city and county officials had already begun backing away from LAHSA, the Associated Press reported last year.
The city council moved to explore bypassing the agency and contracting directly with providers, while the county moved to redirect hundreds of millions of dollars in annual homelessness funding away from LAHSA and into a new county department, citing the need for stronger accountability after a series of audits.
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«HUD cannot ignore LAHSA’s wanton mismanagement of public funds. HUD’s mission is to reduce the plague of homelessness in America,» the agency’s letter to LAHSA leadership on Thursday stated. «Turning over billions of dollars from American taxpayers to an organization under investigation and suspected of gross misuse of federal funding and «obvious fraud» does nothing to reduce homelessness. Indeed, diverting dollars from worthy programs to LAHSA merely makes the homeless crisis worse.»
Fox News Digital reached out to LAHSA for comment.
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EE.UU. atacó Irán por segundo día consecutivo y Teherán anunció otro cierre del estrecho de Ormuz
La crisis en Medio Oriente sumó un nuevo capítulo de máxima tensión: Estados Unidos lanzó una segunda ronda de ataques aéreos contra Irán en la madrugada del jueves, mientras el presidente Donald Trump advirtió que Teherán “pagará el precio” por el estancamiento de las negociaciones de paz. La respuesta iraní no tardó: misiles impactaron en Baréin, Kuwait y Jordania, dejando heridos y daños materiales. Además, la autoridades marítimas iraníes anunciaron un cierre total del estrecho de Ormuz hasta nuevo aviso.
“Estábamos realmente cerca de un acuerdo, pero siguen dándonos largas, siguen tomándonos por imbéciles”, lanzó Trump el miércoles ante la prensa, visiblemente molesto por la falta de avances.
El secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth, fue aún más directo: “Si tenemos que negociar a base de bombas, negociaremos con bombas, y somos muy buenos en eso”, advirtió, dejando en claro el endurecimiento de la postura estadounidense. Barcos aparecen fondeados en el estrecho de Ormuz. (Foto: REUTERS).
El escenario es cada vez más incierto. Los bombardeos estadounidenses golpearon múltiples ciudades iraníes, incluyendo la capital Teherán y la estratégica Bandar Abbas, cerca del estrecho de Ormuz.
Según el Comando Central de Estados Unidos, los objetivos fueron “capacidades de vigilancia militar, sistemas de comunicación y emplazamientos de defensa aérea” de Irán. La operación involucró a la Fuerza Aérea, los Marines y la Marina, aunque no se difundieron detalles sobre el alcance de los daños.
Por su parte, la Guardia Revolucionaria iraní confirmó que los ataques destruyeron un complejo fabril, un cuartel militar y una base local en las afueras de Teherán.
Irán respondió con una nueva andanada de misiles sobre países del Golfo Pérsico. En Baréin, una nena de 11 años resultó herida y varias casas y autos sufrieron daños por la caída de escombros tras la interceptación de los proyectiles. Kuwait cerró su espacio aéreo durante horas y Jordania emitió alertas a través de la embajada de Estados Unidos en Amán y anuncipio haber interceptado 20 misiles.
“La intercepción provocó la caída de escombros, sin causar víctimas ni daños materiales”, puntualizó el ejército jordano.
El conflicto sacude la economía global y pone en jaque la seguridad marítima
El tercer intercambio de fuego en menos de una semana puso al límite un frágil alto el fuego que apenas llevaba dos meses.
“Los ataques ilegales y criminales perpetrados por Estados Unidos en las últimas horas no sólo constituyen una violación palmaria de la Carta de Naciones Unidas (…), sino que además convierten la tregua en algo prácticamente irrelevante”, comentó la cancillería en un comunicado.
Irán advirtió que atacará cualquier barco que intente cruzar el estrecho de Ormuz, una vía clave por donde pasa cerca del 20% del comercio mundial de petróleo y gas natural licuado. Un clérigo mira su celular en el escenario ante una pantalla con retratos del fallecido fundador de la Revolución Islámica, el ayatolá Jomeini, a la izquierda; el fallecido líder supremo Alí Jamenei y el actual líder supremo Moytabá Jamenei, durante un acto progobierno en Teherán, Irán (Foto: AP /Vahid Salemi).
“Tras las repetidas violaciones del alto el fuego por parte del enemigo estadounidense, el estrecho de Ormuz permanecerá cerrado hasta nuevo aviso”, informaron los Guardianes de la Revolución, citados por la televisión estatal.
“Ningún barco debe abandonar su fondeadero en el golfo Pérsico y el mar de Omán. Cualquier aproximación al estrecho de Ormuz se considerará una colaboración con el enemigo”, advirtieron.
La Armada iraní aseguró que “dos buques que intentaban cruzar ilegalmente” esa vía ya fueron atacados. El comandante de la aviación de los Guardianes, Sardar Musavi, fue tajante: “¿Están poniendo en peligro el sagrado estrecho de Ormuz? Haremos de esta región un infierno para ustedes”.
Washington, que por su parte impone un bloqueo a los puertos iraníes, desmintió cualquier bloqueo de Ormuz.
“REALIDAD: Los buques comerciales continúan transitando por el estrecho esta noche”, escribió en la red social X el Comando Militar de Estados Unidos para Oriente Medio (Centcom).
Mientras tanto, la Organización Marítima Internacional denunció que ya se registraron 43 ataques contra barcos comerciales en la zona desde que estalló el conflicto.
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En medio de la escalada, Trump presiona por un acuerdo rápido para frenar la guerra, preocupado por el impacto de los precios de la nafta en las elecciones de noviembre.
Pero las condiciones parecen difíciles de conciliar: Estados Unidos exige que Irán entregue su uranio altamente enriquecido, mientras que Teherán reclama el levantamiento de sanciones y la liberación de activos congelados antes de firmar cualquier pacto.
Irán también exige que cualquier acuerdo incluya el fin de los combates entre su aliado Hezbollah e Israel, algo que Washington rechaza. Por su parte, el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, mantiene una postura dura: busca el colapso del gobierno teocrático iraní, la eliminación de su programa nuclear y la destrucción de Hezbollah en Líbano.
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La situación es cada vez más volátil. El cruce de ataques entre Estados Unidos e Irán ya dejó víctimas civiles y amenaza con desbordar a toda la región. Israel, por su parte, advirtió a los habitantes del norte que busquen refugio ante la posibilidad de nuevos bombardeos desde Líbano.
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