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Dem Senate candidate pushing water affordability agenda racked up unpaid bills on $1.28M home
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Democrat Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow accrued nearly a year’s worth of unpaid utility charges on her million-dollar home while campaigning on affordability.
Until Friday, McMorrow and her husband, former Gawker executive Ray Wert, had not paid water or sewer charges on their home in Royal Oak, Mich., since June 2025, according to records reviewed by Fox News Digital. The property had accrued $3,000.37 in unpaid bills and late fees.
The debt was paid shortly after Fox News Digital reached out for comment.
«The bills in question have been paid,» the spokesperson said. «We respect the commitment to covering anything other than the fact that every single American’s bills – from gas to groceries to electricity – are going way up because of Donald Trump and his enablers like Mike Rogers.»
Mallory McMorrow campaigns at the Michigan Democratic Nominating Convention in Detroit on April 19, 2026. (Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group)
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McMorrow, a state legislator vying for the Democratic nomination in one of the country’s top Senate races, has repeatedly fallen behind on payments in recent years.
Records show the couple has been fined 10 times totaling more than $400 in late fees for nonpayment since late 2021, when they purchased a $1.28 million home in the Detroit suburb. A report in the Detroit Metro Times that year described the property — with a pool and outside courtyard — as a home «to marvel at.»
McMorrow and Wert also let overdue water bills pile up on the home in the latter half of 2024, when they went five months without making a payment. When the couple finally paid $917 in January 2025, records showed an unpaid balance of $45 in late fees.
Royal Oak Township sends water bills quarterly and assesses a 5% late fee on unpaid balances. If McMorrow had failed to pay the balance by June 1, another 5% penalty would have been added, according to a billing notice.
Under Royal Oak policy, unpaid water and sewer bills can eventually be added to the couple’s property tax bill and prolonged nonpayment can result in water shutoff.
The delinquent payments come as recent disclosures show McMorrow and her husband may be millionaires.
She estimated her net worth between $588,041 and $1.87 million last year, Michigan Advance reported. Up to $1.15 million was reported under her name or as a joint asset with her husband, according to a financial disclosure filed last year.
McMorrow earned $101,554 from her state senator salary, according to the filing. She also reported just over $106,000 in royalties.
Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago on August 19, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
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While McMorrow was falling behind on payments, she championed «affordability» legislation that would end water shutoffs for not paying city bills.
McMorrow cosponsored a measure last year that would cap water bills for qualifying low-income residents and offer debt forgiveness for overdue balances. The program would be funded through a regular surcharge on most Michigan water customers.
She has also backed the Human Right to Water Act, which would recognize access to affordable drinking water as a right and direct the state government to develop «affordability criteria.»
In a March 2021 Facebook post, she advocated for legislation that would «end water shutoffs.»
«Let’s be clear, access to water is a human right, even when there’s not a pandemic,» she wrote.
McMorrow’s delinquent water bills come as she is running in a combative three-way Democratic primary to succeed Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., who is retiring.
The swing seat is a must-win race for Democrats hoping to retake Senate control, but Republicans also view the contest as a top flip opportunity. Former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., cleared the field last year with President Donald Trump’s backing while the Democratic candidates continue to duke it out ahead of the August primary.
McMorrow is campaigning on a progressive platform that includes calling on the wealthy to pay their «fair share» in taxes. Democrat Sen. Bernie Sanders-backed Abdul El-Sayed is running to her left, and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., a candidate with support from the party’s establishment swing, has espoused more centrist views.
Controversial streamer Hasan Piker and Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic primary candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, take a selfie with young fans after a campaign event at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on April 7, 2026. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
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Progressive Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., have endorsed McMorrow’s campaign.
She recently faced scrutiny for deleting thousands of old social media posts prior to her Senate campaign launch that denigrated «Middle America» and associated Trump and his base with Nazi Germany. CNN first reported on the trove of since-deleted posts.
The Senate hopeful largely defended her posts in an interview with the network, arguing she «tweeted normal things like a normal person.»
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Trump administration notches major immigration victories at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court delivers significant immigration victories for the Trump administration, affirming presidential authority to end temporary protected status and turn away asylum seekers at the border. Constitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley breaks down the impact of these crucial 6-3 decisions, highlighting their implications for border sovereignty and future immigration policy in the United States.
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The Supreme Court’s Thursday decision to restrict asylum applications, hailed by immigration hawks, could actually end up increasing illegal crossings, according to the three dissenting justices and immigration nonprofit involved in the case.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court held in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado that migrants must physically set foot in the United States in order to be eligible for asylum, reversing lower court rulings that had required the government to process certain asylum seekers turned away at ports of entry. While the decision is broadly viewed as making asylum claims more difficult to secure, an objective of the Trump administration, Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Al Otro Lado both argue that it may have unintended consequences.
«This Court has previously recognized that immigration statutes and procedures should not be construed to ‘create a perverse incentive to enter at an unlawful rather than a lawful location. Yet, the majority’s construction does exactly that,» Sotomayor wrote in her dissent. «It tells asylum seekers that they may apply for asylum if they can make it across the border illegally but that they cannot apply if they patiently wait at the edge of a port of entry.»
Al Otro Lado argued on similar lines, stating in a court filing that restricting asylum access to those who physically enter the United States would»create a perverse incentive to cross the border between ports of entry» as people who do so will receive greater rights than those stopped at ports.
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Asylum seekers seen walking toward the southern border in Tijuana, Mexico and a image of a courtroom in the Concord Immigration Court. Kyra Lilien, an immigration judge is suing the Trump administration over her termination, alleging she was fired because of her political affiliations. (Getty Images; Concord Immigration Court)
It is unclear if the Department of Homeland Security, which celebrated the decision, has prepared for the potential uptick in asylum seekers illegally crossing the border. DHS did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Thursday.
The conservative majority, led by Justice Samuel Alito, downplayed this possibility, calling the concern «overstated.»
Pro and anti-Trump demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2026, before justices hear oral arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)
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«Metering does not permanently bar any alien from arriving in the United States and then applying for asylum,» Alito wrote for the majority. «Illegal entry, on the other hand, may be expensive and dangerous, and it carries adverse legal effects. Entry at an improper location is a crime. An alien becomes ineligible for asylum if he unlawfully re-enters the country after having been removed.»
«An alien whose admission and inspection are delayed due to metering would need a powerful reason to apply for asylum immediately for it to be preferable to run all the risks of illegal entry,» he added.
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Migrants cross illegally through a hole in a fence near El Paso, Texas, on Dec. 22, 2022, after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the removal of Title 42, a policy used to block migrants at the southwest border. (Allison Dinner/AFP)
Metering refers to the practice of limiting how many asylum seekers can approach or enter a U.S. port of entry each day for processing. Under the policy, migrants were often told to wait in Mexico until U.S. officials determined the port had capacity.
Alito’s rationale was not enough to convince Sotomayor and the other dissenting justices.
«The point, however, is not that illegal entry always produces a net windfall for asylum seekers; it is that Congress was unlikely to devise a system in which asylum is available to those who unlawfully set foot over the border, but not to those who attempt to comply with the law and are physically blocked from entering at the threshold of a port of entry by an immigration officer,» she wrote. «It is also the unfortunate reality that, despite the adverse consequences the majority cites, many asylum seekers are desperate enough to flee the persecution they face in their home countries that they are willing to run significant risks to apply for asylum.»
Sotomayor went on to cite a 2018 DHS Office of the Inspector General report that found metering had «unintended consequences» which «le[d] some aliens who would otherwise seek legal entry into the United States to cross the border illegally.»
The report was published before lower courts held that migrants turned away at the border could apply for asylum, meaning that the conditions it covered are comparable to the new status quo set by the Supreme Court.
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«This administration has demonstrated that the border can be secured against illegal entries. As border wall construction continues, the ability to deter illegal crossings will only improve,» Matt Crapo, the director of litigation at the right-wing Federation for American Immigration Reform, told Fox News Digital.
«So long as the federal government makes border security a priority, illegal crossings should not be a major concern,» he added.
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El drama de una argentina de 79 años que quedó atrapada en los terremotos en Venezuela: está postrada, no tiene familia y pide ayuda para volver al país
Los dos terremotos que sacudieron Venezuela dejaron al menos 188 muertos, cientos de heridos y miles de personas que quedaron sin un techo luego de que los sismos arrasaran con todo. Las imágenes dan cuenta del horror: edificios derrumbados, rescatistas buscando entre los escombros y la desesperación de aquellos que quedaron a la deriva.
Una de ellas es María Alicia Zurli Giraud Billoud, una argentina de 79 años que reside en Caracas desde su juventud y que pasó la noche en la calle porque su departamento quedó al borde del colapso.
“Estamos vivos y eso es ganancia”, dijo Luis Reyes, su cuidador, en diálogo con TN. Sin embargo, contó el drama que sufre la mujer y reclamó ayuda del Gobierno argentino.
María Alicia es de Tres Esquinas, Mendoza, y a sus veintes se casó con un argentino, con quien decidió instalarse en Venezuela en 1978. Después de muchos años, se separaron y ella quedó sola.
En 2023, la mujer se cayó en el baño y sufrió una fractura en la cadera, pero nunca se hizo ver la lesión y la situación, que podría no haber sido tan grave, terminó con ella postrada en la cama. Desde entonces, ella se adaptó a estar acostada y no se volvió a levantar.
Luis la conoció a través de una vecina de María Alicia, que lo contactó y le comentó lo que pasaba con ella. “Yo trabajo en un hospital y me dijo para ver qué podía hacer por ella. Cuando la conocí, estaba abandonada, en una situación muy vulnerable. Estaba deshidratada, llena de heces, en una situación complicada”, relató. El departamento de María Alicia quedó con terribles rajaduras y el edificio tiene peligro de derrumbe. (Foto: Gentileza Luis Reyes)
Él decidió documentar cómo la encontró y de qué manera fue evolucionando, ya que empezó a visitarla, le llevaba insumos médicos, pañales. Como vivía en otra ciudad y tenía que hacer largos viajes para cuidarla, María Alicia le ofreció quedarse con ella en San Martín y aceptó. “Se hizo costumbre. Si nadie la quiere ayudar, bueno, acá estoy. De alguna manera, la adopté”.
Respecto a la familia de la mujer, indicó que tiene dos hermanos de 76 y 73 años que están al tanto del estado de salud de María Alicia, pero que también tienen problemas de salud y decidieron no involucrarse.
“Ella es la mayor y todos saben cómo está. Hizo videollamadas con su hermano, pero no cambió nada. Su único contacto en Venezuela era su exmarido, que falleció hace unos años, y quedó totalmente sola”.
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Cuando todavía funcionaba la Cancillería argentina en Caracas, Reyes les acercó el caso con una carpeta y los detalles de la mujer, pero no tuvo éxito. “Les incomodaba mucho que yo fuera, no hicieron mucho por ella. Después intenté en la oficina de Colombia y elevaron el caso. El año pasado me contactaron para hacer un seguimiento, pero nunca vinieron a visitarla».
Y agregó: “Está lúcida, se acuerda de su familia y está bien. Su problema es físico-motor”.
“Estaba en crisis”: el momento del terremoto que los dejó en la calle
En la tarde del miércoles, Luis llegó un rato más temprano de lo esperado a la casa. Estaban hablando con María Alicia cuando su celular empezó a emitir una alarma fuerte que no paraba.
“No entendí que estaba pasando. A los diez segundos empezó a moverse el edificio. Primero fueron movimientos leves y después eran movimientos bruscos que nos hacían chocar contra la pared. Se movía para todos lados y no podíamos hacer nada”, describió.
Ambos comenzaron a pedir ayuda, desesperados, porque creían que se les venía el techo encima. Y esperaron. Y pensaron lo peor hasta que los temblores se calmaron.
“Estábamos en pánico los dos. Ella estuvo llorando, entró en crisis, tenía el corazón acelerado. Tenía miedo de que se derrumbara todo, así que la monté en una silla de ruedas y salimos. Por suerte estamos en un segundo piso y bajamos», sostuvo Luis.
Así quedó la zona de San Martín, en Caracas. (Foto: Gentileza Luis Reyes)
Desde ese momento permanecen en la calle, ya que el edificio tiene mucho daño estructural y no es seguro volver a entrar. “No es recomendable regresar porque podría ser trágico y anoche pasamos en la calle. Ella no puede estar a la intemperie mucho tiempo más y vamos a terminar entrando de nuevo al departamento aunque sea riesgoso, pero no hay alternativas”.
De acuerdo a su testimonio, la situación en el barrio es compleja: hay muchos lugares desplomados y, los que se mantuvieron en pie, están cerrados: “Nadie nos ayudó, cada uno carga su desgracia y es difícil incluso encontrar algún lugar para comprar comida”.
“Fue algo catastrófico y el Gobierno le está dando prioridad a los edificios derrumbados. Nosotros estamos en la última fila, pero necesitamos que alguien nos ayude. Estamos a la buena de Dios”, imploró.
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