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Trump EPA chief vows he won’t take ‘morality lessons’ from Dem senator after heated clash
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., traded barbs with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin in a fiery Senate hearing Wednesday over cost-benefit analysis of coal plants and whether President Trump’s EPA had done enough to weigh whether hospital bills and insurance claims should factor into the calculus.
The heated back-and-forth left Zeldin taking a thinly-veiled dig at Whitehouse long after the Democratic environmentalist had concluded his line of questioning.
«We just want to stick to the truth,» Zeldin said.
«We want to stick to the science. If you don’t agree with them, you don’t follow their logic, then they’ll want to vilify you … and I’m not going to take morality lessons from people who join all-White country clubs,» Zeldin added.
He was referring to reports of Whitehouse’s family membership at Bailey’s Beach Club, a beach club formerly known as Spouting Rock Beach Association.
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends a meeting with President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 13, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«I think the people who are running the place are still working on that, and I’m sorry it hasn’t happened yet,» Whitehouse said in 2017, referring to allowing minority members. «It’s a long tradition in Rhode Island, and there are many of them. And we just need to work our way through the issues.»
The interaction comes as lawmakers weigh President Donald Trump’s 2027 budget request for the EPA, a framework that has alarmed Democrats for its proposed 50% reduction to agency funding.
Zeldin’s clash with Whitehouse also underscores sharp divisions between the administration and Democrats in Congress over what threat, if any, climate change poses and what resources the U.S. should devote to combating it.
Whitehouse, who panned the proposed budget, argued that Zeldin was ignoring secondary costs brought on by fossil fuels.
«One plant in Michigan has already cost Michiganders $600 million in excess health costs. That is money out of consumers’ pockets and into the pockets of your fossil fuel polluters, Trump’s big donors. Are you even tracking the consumer costs of those coal plants?» Whitehouse asked Zeldin.
«We’re going to get to talk about math?» Zeldin replied. «Oh, this is great; I don’t even know where to start.»
«Are you even tracking the consumer costs of those coal plants?» Whitehouse asked again. «Answer that question: Are you even tracking the consumer costs of those coal plants?»
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Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for EPA administrator, speaks during his Senate Environment and Public Works confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 16, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Zeldin began replying that the EPA did, in fact, track consumer costs of energy but was cut off.
«Where are you tracking the consumer costs of those coal plants?» Whitehouse interjected.
Zeldin, setting aside the matter of tracking, turned to confront Whitehouse’s underlying argument about the cost-benefit of coal across the country.
«Are you kidding me? Coal plants even staying open – you think that the math is that it’s better for West Virginia if you close down their coal plants and put these people out of work and tell them to learn how to code?» Zeldin said.
«According to you, in your mind, that’s saving West Virginia? Is it saving them on energy access? Is it saving them on jobs?» Zeldin added.
Whitehouse, running out of his allotted time, closed his line of questioning by proposing that Trump’s administration stood to gain from energy-aligned donors.
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., conducts the Senate Budget Committee hearing titled «The Default on America Act: Blackmail, Brinkmanship, and Billionaire Backroom Deals» in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 4, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
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«You’re raising costs on purpose because the money that you get when you raise costs from consumers goes to Trump’s big fossil fuel donors,» Whitehouse said.
The EPA was given roughly $8.82 billion in the 2026 fiscal year. For 2027, Trump has requested just $4.2B for 2027, a drop that would represent a 52% decrease year over year.
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Israel fears Trump weary of ‘highly suspicious’ Netanyahu and could ‘flip’ amid Iran deal: analyst
Trump calls out Netanyahu over Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets
Rising Middle East tensions threaten President Donald Trump’s push for an Iran peace deal. Fox News details military pressure on Iran, including US strikes and a naval blockade, alongside Israel’s recent strikes on Hezbollah in Beirut. Discussions center on proposed deal terms, verification mechanisms, and skepticism about Iran’s commitment.
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A regional analyst says fears that President Donald Trump could «flip» on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid a critical push for a U.S.-Iran peace agreement are growing in Jerusalem, a concern highlighted Sunday after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) struck Beirut for a second time.
Despite U.S. warnings that any strikes would derail a breakthrough with Tehran, the strikes came as Netanyahu prepared to convene Israel’s Security Cabinet and after Trump announced a new U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding (MOU) was expected to be signed imminently.
«The strikes today in Beirut are creating issues with finalizing the deal,» a diplomat involved in the talks with Tehran told Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst, adding that they were «a clear attempt by Israel to sabotage the president’s deal and drag the United States back into war.»
Trump went on to condemn Israel’s strikes in a post on Truth Social, also telling Axios that Netanyahu had «no f—ing judgment.»
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President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 29, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Natan Sachs, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, noted there was «absolutely this fear in the Israeli government,» calling it «a rational and healthy fear» over the pending deal.
He said a strategic chasm existed between the two allies, contrasting Netanyahu’s doctrine of sustained, long-term military pressure with Trump’s pursuit of immediate diplomatic victories.
«Now there is a sense in Israel that Trump may be growing weary of Netanyahu and the Israelis, and many others believe that if he got sick and tired of him, he could break norms in other directions and flip on Israel,» Sachs, an Israeli foreign policy expert, told Fox News Digital.
With discussions underway through Pakistani mediation, the Israeli prime minister’s office released a statement shortly after Trump announced the possible deal with Tehran on June 11.
Jerusalem «is not a party to the memorandum of understanding» between Washington and Tehran, Netanyahu said before reiterating on June 12 that Iran was «working to destroy the Jewish state.» He assured Israelis he had dedicated his life to «preventing them from doing so.»
On Sunday, a senior Israeli official also said Hezbollah attacks had targeted Israeli civilians for the previous three days as Israel prepared for Iranian retaliation.
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President Trump’s push for a U.S.-Iran deal is fueling concern in Jerusalem that he could turn on Netanyahu as Israeli strikes in Beirut threaten to complicate negotiations. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Trump had already criticized Netanyahu during a phone call earlier this month, reportedly calling him «crazy» over a first strike on Beirut that was complicating the administration’s negotiations with Iran.
«It’s not just that there seems to be a crisis — and there were clearly expletives used by the president toward the prime minister on the backdrop of a joint and large military operation,» Sachs said.
«Israel and Netanyahu had first looked at Trump and saw both enormous carrots and enormous potential sticks,» Sachs said of the start of Operation Epic Fury and Roaring Lion on Feb. 28.
«Trump was a huge opportunity for Netanyahu because he was willing to break the mold on anything, but Israel has made a potentially strategic, historic mistake in putting all its eggs in one basket,» he added.
«Netanyahu was always prepared for the long haul,» Sachs said. «And the long haul is not four months; the long haul is years. Trump likes quick wins. Once the quick win did not materialize — and it did not — now you have a whole new set of problems.»
«Trump’s preference seemed far from pursuing a much broader campaign aimed at achieving the goals that Israel prefers, and he also has a much narrower conception of what a deal would be,» he added.
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Lebanese civil defense workers search for victims in the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, on April 9, 2026. (Hassan Ammar/AP)
Sachs noted, however, that Trump and Netanyahu broadly shared goals on curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, eliminating Hezbollah’s armed presence in Lebanon and establishing a post-Hamas future for Gaza.
But he said, «having that wish list is not the same as having a strategic goal. They haven’t both committed to them as strategic goals that dictate concerted action going forward.»
Sachs also argued that tensions between Trump and Netanyahu reflect different temperaments.
«Netanyahu thinks of himself as a strategic thinker — very able, and of course, he has a very high opinion of himself — but he is completely different,» he observed.
«Netanyahu is an erudite, well-educated, patient, highly suspicious and extremely pessimistic man by nature. His self-image is more, ‘I have thought everything through in ways you could not, because I’m smarter than you.’
«He’s very suspicious of everyone around him, and he’s been surrounded by this same coterie of individuals for decades.»
«In terms of personality and where they come from, their worldview is also actually very different,» Sachs added.
«You can’t imagine Netanyahu spending hours at night on social media. He doesn’t go on it himself, and it’s hard to imagine President Trump spending hours reading books, which Netanyahu likes to portray himself as doing. I doubt he has time for it, but that is an image he projects, and I think it is partially true.»
«Netanyahu also believes you live with a problem, you manage it, and you kick the can down the road. Trump is the opposite.»
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«The U.S. may turn away and be uninterested; Israel simply does not think it has that privilege,» Sachs said.
«Netanyahu and Trump have very different time horizons, and that is partly geography and interest — and partly personality.»
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Irán amenazó con tomar represalias tras el bombardeo de Israel contra Hezbollah en Beirut: “La respuesta está llegando”
El régimen de Irán lanzó este domingo nuevas amenazas contra Israel después del bombardeo israelí sobre los suburbios del sur de Beirut, una zona considerada uno de los principales bastiones del grupo terrorista Hezbollah. Funcionarios políticos y militares del régimen persa afirmaron que habrá una respuesta a la operación y advirtieron que sus fuerzas permanecen listas para intervenir si se producen nuevos ataques.
La amenaza llegó desde el Consejo Supremo de Seguridad Nacional, el máximo órgano encargado de coordinar la política de defensa y seguridad de la República Islámica. Su secretario, Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, aseguró que la represalia ya está en marcha.
“La respuesta de los soldados del Islam está llegando”, declaró el funcionario en un mensaje difundido por canales oficiales iraníes.
Zolqadr vinculó además la situación en el Líbano con la estrategia regional de Teherán y destacó la cooperación entre los grupos aliados de la República Islámica en Medio Oriente. Según sostuvo, esa red constituye una estructura de defensa común frente a las amenazas externas.
“La unidad de los frentes de la Resistencia ha creado una cadena de seguridad para la defensa de toda la región”, afirmó.
El dirigente también dejó un mensaje dirigido directamente a Israel al referirse al ataque sobre Beirut.
“El Líbano es nuestra vida, y la violación de las líneas rojas de la República Islámica no será tolerada”, señaló.
Las declaraciones se produjeron pocas horas después de que aviones israelíes atacaran el sector de Dahye, en el sur de la capital libanesa. Las autoridades de emergencia locales informaron que al menos tres personas murieron y varias más resultaron heridas como consecuencia de los bombardeos.
Israel justificó la operación como una respuesta a lanzamientos efectuados previamente desde territorio libanés contra el norte del país. Sin embargo, la acción provocó una inmediata reacción de Irán, principal respaldo político, financiero y militar de Hezbollah.
La advertencia iraní fue reforzada por altos mandos de las fuerzas armadas. El general Ali Abdollahi, comandante del Cuartel General Central Jatam al-Anbiya, aseguró que las capacidades militares del país se encuentran en condiciones de responder a cualquier escenario.
“Nuestras capacidades de combate, defensa, misiles, fuerzas navales, drones y defensa aérea son más poderosas que nunca”, afirmó el oficial.
Abdollahi sostuvo además que las tropas iraníes están preparadas para actuar de manera inmediata si consideran que existe una nueva agresión contra los intereses de la República Islámica o sus aliados regionales.
Según el militar, los efectivos permanecen con “el dedo en el gatillo” y listos para atacar “el corazón del enemigo”.
En otro tramo de su mensaje, lanzó una advertencia contra Israel. “Estamos esperando el más mínimo desliz del enemigo agresor para darle una lección inolvidable y definitiva”, expresó.
Las amenazas también fueron acompañadas por declaraciones de otros funcionarios iraníes. El subcomandante del Comando Unificado de Operaciones Jatam al-Anbiya, Sardar Asadi, afirmó que la ofensiva israelí no quedará sin consecuencias.
“Sin duda estos crímenes no quedarán sin respuesta”, manifestó.
En paralelo a las amenazas cruzadas, el régimen iraní suspendió las operaciones aéreas en el oeste del país, la región más próxima a Israel. La restricción fue establecida por tiempo indefinido y permanecerá vigente hasta nuevo aviso.
Aunque la Organización de Aviación Civil indicó que no se emitieron nuevas alertas formales para la navegación aérea y que continúan aplicándose las disposiciones ya existentes, la decisión fue interpretada como una señal de preparación ante un posible deterioro de la situación de seguridad.
La escalada se produce en un momento especialmente delicado para la región. En paralelo a las tensiones militares, Washington y Teherán mantienen negociaciones destinadas a cerrar un entendimiento que permita poner fin a meses de enfrentamientos y reduzca el riesgo de una guerra más amplia en Medio Oriente.
El ataque sobre Beirut introdujo nuevas dudas sobre ese proceso diplomático. El presidente del Parlamento iraní y uno de los principales referentes involucrados en las conversaciones, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, cuestionó la continuidad de las negociaciones tras los bombardeos.
“Si careces de la voluntad o la capacidad para cumplir tus compromisos, es imposible hablar de seguir adelante”, escribió.
Las críticas también alcanzaron indirectamente a Estados Unidos. Desde Teherán consideran que la ofensiva israelí pone en duda la capacidad de Washington para garantizar el cumplimiento de los compromisos asumidos durante las conversaciones.
El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, también tomó distancia del ataque. El mandatario afirmó que la operación israelí “no debería haber ocurrido”, especialmente cuando las partes se encontraban cerca de concretar un acuerdo destinado a reducir las tensiones en la región. Mientras tanto, las amenazas cruzadas y la incertidumbre sobre una eventual represalia iraní mantienen en alerta a Medio Oriente.
(Con información de AFP y EFE)
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