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Capitol Police arrest protesters disrupting budget markup as Cory Booker thanks them for defending Medicaid
More than two dozen protesters were arrested for disrupting the House Energy and Commerce’s budget reconciliation markup on Tuesday, as Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., thanked those holding court in the hallway.
«Around 2 p.m., 26 people were arrested for illegally demonstrating in the Rayburn House Office Building. They were arrested for 22-1307 Crowding, Obstructing, and Incommoding. It is against the law to protest inside the Congressional Buildings,» the U.S. Capitol Police Department told Fox News Digital.
Dozens of protesters, many in wheelchairs, filled the halls outside the John D. Dingell Room in the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday afternoon, chanting, «No cuts to Medicaid!» Several protesters, who were blocking the entrance to the committee room, were wheeled away and arrested by Capitol police after multiple warnings.
A defiant Booker walked by the budget markup during its first hour and was greeted by the cheers and whistles of those protesting Medicaid cuts. Booker, who spent more than 12 hours protesting President Donald Trump’s agenda on the steps of the U.S. Capitol just two weeks ago, thanked the protesters for showing up to protect Medicaid.
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Demonstrators calling for preservation of Medicaid funding, are removed from the House Energy and Commerce markup of the FY2025 budget resolution in Rayburn building on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
A Capitol police officer confirmed to Fox News Digital that disruptors were arrested for protesting and would be processed and released immediately. Many protesters remained in the hallway during the first few hours of the markup as others were removed for shouting during the representative’s testimonies and subsequently arrested.
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«The audience is supportive that you’re all here and participating. We want you here. You’re part of the process. We want you to be here, but we have to proceed. And the rules of the House, and the law is that – if you’re disruptive, you’ll be removed, and you’re subject to arrest. I don’t make that decision, the Capitol Police does,» Kentucky Republican Rep. Brett Guthrie, Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, said following one of several disruptions by protesters.
Inside the budget markup, Democrats and Republicans sparred over rhetoric about Medicaid cuts. Democrats claimed the Republican budget bill would cut vital access to Medicaid, with many representatives sharing stories of their constituents who have benefited from its services. Meanwhile, Republicans accused Democrats of lying to the American people about Medicaid cuts – a word Guthrie deterred his colleagues from using.
«I want to send one very clear message: you’re being lied to. The other side is telling you a lot of things about this legislation. I’m not sure they have read this legislation,» Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., who chairs the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, said.
Republicans mostly avoided the deep cuts to Medicaid pushed by fiscal conservatives in the House Republican Conference, which could serve to benefit moderate Republicans who have fielded relentless attacks from Democrats over potential Medicaid cuts. House Republicans, however, have vowed to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicaid program.
Protesters staked out the House Energy and Commerce’s budget reconciliation markup on Tuesday. (Fox News Digital)
The committee’s budget markup includes increased regulations and program cuts to Medicaid, including tightened address verification requirements, ensuring deceased individuals are not enrolled, more provider screening requirements, removing excess Medicaid payments, revising home equity limits for determining eligibility, prohibiting illegal immigrants from obtaining Medicaid services, ensuring accurate payments, prohibiting funding for gender transition procedures for minors and requirements for states to establish Medicaid community engagement programs.
«This budget does not cut Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security benefits for the Americans who truly need them. We are strengthening and protecting Medicaid for pregnant women, children, individuals with disabilities, low-income seniors and vulnerable families. These Americans will continue to have access to the care they need and deserve. What we are doing is eliminating waste, fraud and abuse,» Rep. Erin Houchin, R-Indiana, told the committee.
But despite Republicans’ assurances that the proposed budget does not cut Medicaid, Democrats testified, one after the other, about the threats program cuts pose to Americans.
Protesters disrupted the House Energy and Commerce’s budget reconciliation markup on Tuesday. (Fox News Digital) (Fox News Digital)
«They are cutting this Medicaid care and these Medicaid dollars to pay for tax cuts for Elon Musk and billionaires, so this money isn’t even going towards funding better care for people who are eligible… We are cutting money and health care from people and families who are suffering, to pay for tax cuts for the rich. It is a crime happening in front of the American public right now,» Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said.
The proposed legislation would put a new 80-hour-per-month work requirement on certain able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid, aged 19 through 64.
It would also put guardrails on states spending funds on their expanded Medicaid populations. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) allowed states to expand Medicaid coverage to adults who make up to 138% of the poverty level.
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., right, and Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., attend the House Energy and Commerce markup of the FY2025 budget resolution in Rayburn building on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
More specifically, states that provide Medicaid coverage to illegal immigrants could see their federal Medicaid reimbursement dollars diminished, putting more of that cost on the state itself.
The bill would also require states with expanded Medicaid populations to perform eligibility checks every six months to ensure the system is not being abused.
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The Energy & Commerce Committee, which has broad jurisdiction, including over federal health programs, telecommunications and energy, was tasked with finding at least $880 billion in spending cuts to pay for other priorities in Trump’s «big, beautiful bill.»
Guthrie told House Republicans on a lawmaker-only call on Sunday night that the panel had found «north of $900 billion» in savings.
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A federal judge in Boston agreed Monday to extend a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s attempt to block international students from entering the U.S. to study at Harvard.
The update is a near-term win for the nation’s oldest university in its months-long fight with the Trump administration.
Lawyers for Harvard had urged U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs on Monday to extend two restraining orders that blocked the Trump administration from revoking its credentials under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, or SEVP, and which temporarily blocked a proclamation Trump signed earlier this month that barred foreign nationals from traveling to the U.S. if they planned to study or research at Harvard.
«The proclamation is a plain violation of the First Amendment,» Ian Gershengorn, a lawyer for Harvard, told Judge Burroughs in court on Monday in seeking a preliminary injunction, a more lasting form of court-ordered relief.
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Banners on the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Sophie Park/Bloomberg)
Burroughs extended the temporary restraining order through June 23, noting that she needed more time to formally rule on the request for injunctive relief.
«We’ll kick out an opinion as soon as we can,» she told the court Monday afternoon, shortly before proceedings wrapped for the day.
At issue is a push to revoke Harvard’s credentials under its SEVP program, announced by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in May; and a separate proclamation signed by Trump in June, seeking to block foreign nationals from entering the U.S. if they were planning to study or conduct research at Harvard.
Both actions were temporarily blocked by Burroughs. Now, lawyers for the school are pushing for a more permanent form of relief known as a preliminary injunction.
In the interim, lawyers for Harvard said that the Trump administration’s actions have injected «unnecessary uncertainty for Harvard and its students, who may yet again have their status as lawfully present nonimmigrants in the United States abruptly and categorically rescinded.»
Harvard argued that the Trump administration’s actions would violate the Administrative Procedure Act, the First Amendment, and the Fifth Amendment – injecting «continued chaos and lasting damage on Harvard for no compelling reason,» they said in a filing.
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Trump officials have accused Harvard University of «fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,» according to a statement earlier this year, and for failing to account for «known illegal activity» on its campus.
Lawyers for Harvard told Burroughs in court on Monday that these actions have already injected uncertainty into the lives of their international students.
They noted that some foreign students were incorrectly denied visas after indicating their plans to study at Harvard, while at least four other students were wrongfully detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials earlier this month upon arriving in the U.S. at Boston’s Logan International Airport.
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Harvard President Alan Garber acknowledges an extended round of applause during Harvard University’s commencement ceremonies, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Harvard is also fighting to retain its SEVP accreditation. The program is run by the Department of Homeland Security and allows universities to sponsor international students for U.S. visas for the duration of their enrollment at a public university.
If it loses that status, experts previously told Fox News, thousands of international students currently enrolled at Harvard will have a narrow window to either transfer to another U.S. university, or risk losing their student visas within 180 days.
Lawyers for Harvard previously told Burroughs that ending their SEVP certification would affect roughly 7,000 international students at Harvard – or some 27% of its total student body.
Monday’s hearing was the latest in a string of legal dust-ups that have pitted Harvard against the Trump administration – or vice versa – in Trump’s second White House term.
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Cambridge, MA – May 23: Hundreds of graduates walked out of the 2024 Commencement in Harvard Yard to call attention to the plight of Palestinians. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Since Trump took office in January, the administration has already frozen more than $2 billion in grants and contracts awarded to the university, and is proposing to end its tax-exempt status, among other things.
The administration is also targeting Harvard with investigations led by six separate federal agencies.
Combined, these actions have created a wide degree of uncertainty at Harvard.
Legal experts noted the court is wading into largely uncharted territory.
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Asked how it might play out, many scholars pointed to a lack of precedent and offered no clear answer.
«As with many things that Trump does, the answer is unclear, because it hasn’t been done before,» Josh Blackman, a law professor at South Texas College of Law, said last month. «No president has tried to do this before, so I don’t think there’s a clear precedent on the answer.»
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Israel activated a new aerial defense system – dubbed «Barak Magen,» meaning «lightning shield» – for the first time on Sunday night, saying it intercepted and destroyed multiple Iranian drones.
The Israeli Navy intercepted eight Iranian drones using the «Barak Magen» and its long-range air defense (LRAD) interceptor, which were launched from an Israeli navy Sa’ar 6 missile ship, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.
John Hannah, senior fellow at The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) and the co-author of a report published earlier this month on Israel’s defense against two massive Iranian missile attacks in 2024, told Fox News Digital on Monday that the air defense system «significantly enhances» the air and missile defense architecture of Israel’s navy.
«The Barak Magen is simply another arrow in the expanding quiver of Israel’s highly sophisticated and increasingly diverse multi-tiered missile defense architecture – which was already, by leaps and bounds, the most advanced and experienced air defense system fielded by any country in the world,» Hannah said.
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The «Barak Magen» interceptors were launched from an Israeli navy Sa’ar 6 missile ship. (Israel Defense Forces)
The system can intercept a «wide range of threats,» according to the IDF, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), cruise missiles, high-trajectory threats and shore-to-sea missiles.
Hannah said the system not only provides force protection for the Israeli fleet but also gives long-distance protection to Israel’s expanding oil and gas infrastructure in the eastern Mediterranean, along with critical infrastructure and population centers located along Israel’s coastline.
«It allows Israel to conduct interceptions at significant distances from the Israeli homeland, both out in the eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and thereby adds critically important strategic depth when defending Israel’s tiny geographic area,» he said.
The IDF said that the Israeli Navy’s missile ship flotilla has intercepted about 25 UAVs that posed a threat to Israel since the conflict with Iran escalated.
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Israel and Iran traded missile strikes for the fourth day on Monday, with Iran firing a new wave of strikes that killed at least eight people and wounded dozens more.
An Israeli attack on the Shahran oil depot on June 15, 2025, in Tehran, Iran. (Stringer/Getty Images)
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Meanwhile, the Israeli military claimed it had achieved air superiority above Tehran, warning about 330,000 people in a central part of the Iranian capital to evacuate ahead of new strikes.
El brutal bombardeo de Irán a Tel Aviv de este sábado por la noche dejó 10 muertos y decenas de heridos. También dejó varias imágenes impactantes grabadas por los propios ciudadanos israelíes.
La ofensiva iraní estuvo dirigida sobre el norte del país, más precisamente en la zona de Haifa. Las autoridades israelíes informaron que sufrieron el impacto de misiles en zonas residenciales.
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Las alarmas de emergencia se activaron en la zona durante la noche del sábado y las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel confirmaron el ataque con misiles por parte del ejército iraní. También detallaron a la población que el sistema de defensa antiaéreo conocido como “La Cúpula de Hierro” estaba operativo.
Los vecinos grabaron el momento en que los misiles comenzaron a caer en territorio israelí: decenas de luces comenzaron a sobrevolar por los edificios.
Algunos pudieron detectar el momento en que la Cúpula de Hierro interceptó los misiles, mientras que otros videos muestran el impacto de los mismos sobre el territorio israelí.
Uno de los bombardeos provocó el derrumbe de un edificio de cuatro pisos y causó la muerte de al menos ocho personas.
La ofensiva iraní estuvo dirigida sobre el norte del país, más precisamente en la zona de Haifa. (Video: X/@NoaGresiva).
Una vez finalizado el ataque, varios civiles se acercaron al edificio derrumbado y registraron cómo el edificio había pasado a ser escombros.
El bombardeo de este sábado por la noche se produjo después de una jornada intensa de ofensivas israelíes sobre diversos puntos de Irán, incluidos sitios estratégicos para su programa militar y nuclear.
De hecho, mientras respondía a la amenaza que cayó este sábado, la Fuerza Aérea israelí continuaba operando sobre Teherán.
Una vez finalizado el ataque, varias personas se acercaron al edificio derrumbado y registraron cómo el edificio había pasado a ser escombros. (Video: X/@NoaGresiva).
Según confirmaron las propias autoridades iraníes, fueron alcanzados el Ministerio de Defensa —donde se registraron daños leves— y dos depósitos de combustible. Se trataría de los depósitos de Shahran, al noroeste de Teherán, y otro embalse al sur de la ciudad.
Más temprano, las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FDI) habían confirmado una maniobra contra una instalación militar subterránea en el oeste de Irán, un punto estratégico previamente revelado por las autoridades y exhibido como parte de su demostración de poderío militar.
Tel Aviv, a través de sus canales oficiales, confirmó la operación y detalló que se habían alcanzado con éxito “los túneles de almacenamiento para misiles tierra-tierra y de crucero, así como los múltiples pozos de lanzamiento”.
Las alarmas de emergencia se activaron en la zona durante la noche del sábado y las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel confirmaron el ataque con misiles por parte del ejército iraní. (Video: X/@NoaGresiva).
En las primeras horas de este sábado, las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel anunciaron haber alcanzado el yacimiento de gas South Pars, la refinería de gas natural Fajr Jam y el puerto de GNL de Kangan, ubicados en la provincia de Bushehr, en el sur del país.
Según los informes de las agencias Tasnim y Fars, un dron israelí impactó una de las refinerías de la Fase 14 de South Pars, causando una explosión e incendio que obligaron a suspender las operaciones temporalmente.
“Muy pronto verán aviones de la Fuerza Aérea israelí sobre los cielos de Teherán. Atacaremos todos los objetivos del régimen de los ayatolás”, declaró Benjamin Netanyahu en las últimas horas, antes de advertir que las imágenes actuales «no son nada» comparado con las que se verán en los próximos días.
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Por su parte, el ministro de Defensa de Israel, Israel Katz, había asegurado que “Teherán arderá” si continúan los ataques y sumó que el pueblo iraní pagará “un alto precio” por poner en peligro a los ciudadanos israelíes. Horas más tarde, tras el ataque iraní sobre su país y la respuesta de la Fuerza Aérea, dijo: “Arde Teherán”.
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