A spokesperson for first lady Melania Trump shut down a “completely false” theory that her husband, the president, is warring with Harvard University because her son, Barron, was supposedly not accepted to the school.

The Palm Beach Post first reported that first lady spokesperson Nicholas Clemens said, “Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false.”

This comes amid online rumors that President Donald Trump is targeting Harvard with federal funding cuts because Barron, who just finished his freshman year at New York University, was supposedly rejected by the school.

The Trump administration is asking all federal agencies to find ways to terminate all federal contracts with Harvard amid an ongoing standoff over foreign students’ records at the Ivy League school. Harvard has already sued in federal court seeking the restoration of about $3.2 billion in federal grant funding frozen by the administration since last month. 

HARVARD FOREIGN STUDENTS FACE UNCERTAIN FUTURE AMID TRUMP CAMPUS CRACKDOWNS 

In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump accused Harvard of being “very antisemitic” and said he was considering giving the school’s federal funding to trade schools “all across our land.”

“What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!” he wrote.

In a letter Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem informed Harvard’s leadership that the university had lost its “privilege” of enrolling foreign students as a result of the institution’s “refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security with pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ policies.” 

On Friday, Judge Allison Burroughs, a President Barack Obama appointee, granted Harvard a temporary restraining order, preventing the government from revoking the Ivy League school’s certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. The program permits the university to host international students with F-1 or J-1 visas to study in the U.S.

TRUMP RAMPS UP HEAT ON HARVARD: HERE ARE 5 REASONS FROM THE UNIVERSITY’S OWN INVESTIGATION

Trump said this week that Harvard is being “very slow” to turn over information on foreign students. 

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“We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country,” Trump wrote.

“Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason!” he wrote. “The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) – But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!” 

The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

The White House ripped Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., for making a “shameful” Memorial Day trip to El Salvador in an attempt to visit deported illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The White House’s rapid response account said of Ivey’s trip, “This moron spent his Memorial Day trying (and failing) to visit a criminal illegal immigrant gangbanger in a foreign country. For Democrats, criminal illegals > American citizens every time.”

Ivey posted about the attempted visit on his X account, saying that he represents Abrego Garcia, and that the Salvadoran government stonewalled his efforts to conduct a welfare check.

“Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him,” he said. “I’m the congressman who represents Kilmar and I came all the way down from the United States after we contacted their ambassador, after we made formal requests through our ambassador to the El Salvadoran government, and we came here to visit him today.”

DEM IMMIGRATION TALKING POINTS FIZZLE AS DARK PICTURE OF ABREGO GARCIA EMERGES

“We need to bring him home. I won’t stop until we do,” Ivey added in an X post.

Abrego Garcia’s deportation to his home country, El Salvador, has caused significant controversy. The Trump administration has pointed to evidence suggesting that Abrego Garcia was involved with MS-13 and human trafficking to justify his deportation. The administration has also cited court documents detailing Abrego Garcia’s alleged physical abuse of his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura. Democrats, meanwhile, say he is a “Maryland man” who was not given his due process in court before being deported. 

Since Abrego Garcia’s deportation, several Democrats, including Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., have made trips to El Salvador to conduct similar wellness checks and to advocate for his release.

The trips have stirred significant controversy as well, with many asking why Democrats are spending so much time advocating for a suspected gang member who was unlawfully present in the U.S.

MARYLAND DEMOCRAT IVEY FURIOUS NOT GIVEN ACCESS TO KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA IN EL SALVADOR

The video also caught the attention of White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson.

Jackson told Fox News Digital that “it’s shameful, and an insult to the American people, that a Democrat Congressman spent his Memorial Day trying to visit a deported illegal alien, MS-13 terrorist, human-trafficker, and wife beater.”

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“This pathetic stunt tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the modern Democrat party – they’re putting criminal illegals over American citizens all the time,” said Jackson.

In addition to the wife beating evidence, Fox News Digital has previously reported on documents detailing Abrego Garcia being stopped by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper after he was “observed speeding” and unable to stay in his lane in 2022. The trooper noticed eight individuals in the car with Abrego Garcia, who said he began driving three days prior from Houston to Temple Hills, Maryland, via St. Louis to “perform construction work.” 

KILMAR ABREGO-GARCIA SUSPECTED OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN REPORT OBTAINED BY FOX NEWS

The report states that the trooper suspected it was a human trafficking incident, as there was no luggage in the vehicle. Additionally, the individuals in the car reportedly gave the same address as Abrego Garica’s home address.

When speaking with the trooper, Abrego Garcia allegedly “pretended to speak less English than he was capable of and attempted to put encountering officer off-track by responding to questions with questions.” After the incident, the officer decided not to give Abrego Garcia a citation for the driving infractions, but rather to give him a warning for driving with an expired license. 

The White House has not held back in its criticisms of Van Hollen’s visit. In April, the White House tweeted side-by-side photos of Trump meeting with the mother of Rachel Morin, who was murdered by an illegal immigrant in 2023, and Van Hollen sitting with Abrego Garcia with the caption, “We are not the same.”

Rachel Morin was a Maryland resident, as is her mother, Patty, who said that Van Hollen had not reached out to her since her daughter was murdered.

Van Hollen responded to this criticism in a Fox News interview in which he said he “did have concern” for the Morin family and his “heart goes out to every Maryland family that is the victim of violence.” Van Hollen also said that “there is zero connection between the horrible murder of Rachel Morin and the situation with Abrego Garcia.” 

Ivey did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Facing yet another loss after the Trump-backed “Big, Beautiful Bill” advanced in Congress, liberals are lashing out at Democratic Party elders for clinging on to power too long — even to death.

Shortly before the so-called BBB went up for a vote, Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., a longtime leader in the Democratic Party from deep-blue Fairfax County, passed away after a battle with esophageal cancer. Connolly had previously indicated he would be retiring at the end of his term in 2026.

In response, many liberal analysts and consultants complained that too many Democrats were refusing to leave office, including FIGHT Agency’s Rebecca Katz, who posted on X, “Imagine if one of the older and sicker Dems would’ve retired instead of died in office and what that would’ve meant for millions of people,” quoting a post of the final 215-214 tally.

Below that was a repost of a story with a large image of Connolly that described recent elderly Democrats who have died in office.

WHITE HOUSE: DEMS HAVE ‘NEVER BEEN MORE RADICAL, OUT OF TOUCH’ AFTER VOTING AGAINST ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’

When reached for comment, Katz told Fox News Digital that “no individual has a divine right to rule for eternity.”

“Democratic voters feel lied to and are demanding accountability, and our party needs to earn back their trust and start winning again. We shouldn’t be afraid to have hard conversations,” Katz said.

The story — in the left-wing New Republic — described how Connolly was the latest in a recent string of Democrats who have died in office, including Reps. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., and Sylvester Turner, D-Texas. According to her X profile, Katz has experience in Arizona politics working with Sen. Ruben Gallego’s campaign, as well as previously Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.

Meanwhile, the last eight lawmakers to have died in federal office have all been Democrats — including Turner’s own predecessor Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, for whom he took over for less than a term.

The New Republic appeared to lay the blame for the BBB’s narrow win at the feet of dead Democrats.

“House Republicans managed to pass their draconian budget bill, which promises to make massive cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and food assistance, early Thursday morning by a narrow one-vote margin that was only possible due the deaths of three in this current Congress,” the New Republic’s Hafiz Rashid wrote, describing Connolly, Grijalva and Turner.

WINNERS, LOSERS AND GRAB-BAGS FROM HOUSE GOP’S NARROW PASSAGE OF ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’

Quoting another article from The Nation, Katz wrote: 

“In a democracy, politicians exist to serve the public; the public does not exist to serve politicians. It’s a sign of democratic decline if politicians live and die like warlords, clinging to every last ounce of power. Democrats need to define what they stand for as a party so their elected officials can once more be genuine public servants and not mere warlords.”

The Nation lamented how Democrats are supposed to be a political movement seeking to gain power and implement an agenda.

But, “in practice… [they] more closely resemble a hospice, if not a funeral home,” it went on, pivoting to criticizing the party for its bolstering of former President Joe Biden amid revelations from CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s book on the alleged “cover-up [of] his infirmity.”

The three Democrats who died within close proximity to BBB negotiations all hailed from reliably Democratic districts in Fairfax, Tucson and Houston, and could have had their seats filled by Democrats if they had retired in a timely fashion.

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Senior House Republican leadership staff emphasized that Connolly’s absence would not have had any bearing on the outcome of the votes.

Johnson had 217 votes on-hand, Fox News learned Tuesday.

Prior to Connolly, Turner and Grijalva, Democrats from similarly-secure Paterson, New Jersey; Houston oncemore; Newark, New Jersey; California (Sen. Dianne Feinstein); and Petersburg, Virginia, died in office and left their party in the statistical lurch.

Currently, the four oldest sitting federal lawmakers are Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, at 91, Reps. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Hal Rogers, R-Ky., at 87, and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., at 87. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is 85.

Fox News Digital reached out to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Connolly’s office for comment.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is demanding several high-ranking staffers in former President Joe Biden’s White House appear for transcribed interviews on their suspected roles working “behind the scenes” to “cover up” the former president’s significant mental decline during his term.

Comer, who leads the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent interview requests to four key Biden White House aides — former director of the Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden, former assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, former senior adviser to the first lady Anthony Bernal and former deputy director of Oval Office operations Ashley Williams.

Comer said that all of these high-ranking staffers worked “behind the scenes” and “ran interference for President Biden” to avoid his worsening condition from being discovered during his time in office.

BIDEN AIDE INTIMIDATED REPORTER INVESTIGATING FORMER PRESIDENT’S MENTAL DECLINE WITH ‘TACIT THREAT:’ BOOK

The chairman has also requested a transcribed interview with Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor.

Comer told Fox News last week that these “unelected bureaucrats” had an overwhelming influence over Biden and were possibly serving as “de facto” presidents in his stead.

“Today, we are calling on President Biden’s physician and former White House advisors to participate in transcribed interviews so we can begin to uncover the truth,” Comer said in a statement.

The GOP effort comes shortly after the release of “Original Sin” by CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, which claims that the Biden White House was going all out trying to control the perception of the aging president’s failing health. The book exposes the cover-up of Biden’s decline and his decision to run for re-election.

Tapper said during an interview with Piers Morgan on Monday that what Biden’s aides did to hide his condition from the public could be “even worse” than the Watergate scandal during Richard Nixon’s presidency. 

“It is a scandal. It is without question, and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways,” said Tapper. “The only reason we invoke Watergate is just to make clear like, it’s not Watergate — this is an entirely separate scandal, maybe even worse.”

CREDIBILITY CRISIS: WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS SPEAK OUT ON WHETHER BIDEN’S MENTAL DECLINE WAS DELIBERATELY HIDDEN

In his letters, Comer said that while the committee has been investigating the cover-up for nearly a year, “newfound details regarding President Biden’s obvious decline demand renewed scrutiny of White House personnel actions and knowledge of relevant information over the course of the prior administration.”

Comer said the committee is seeking “to understand who made key decisions and exercised the powers of the executive branch during the Biden Administration.”

“The cover-up of President Biden’s obvious mental decline is a historic scandal,” he said. “The American people deserve to know when this decline began, how far it progressed, and who was making critical decisions on his behalf.”

Recalling the Oversight Committee’s previous attempts to subpoena these staffers, Comer said that “the Biden White House blocked these individuals from providing testimony.” Now, he said that “any continued obstruction will be met with swift and decisive action.” If the staffers and physician do not honor his request, Comer said the “next step” will be issuing subpoenas, compelling them to testify.

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On Tuesday, Comer floated the possibility of also issuing subpoenas to former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as well as Hunter Biden and Jill Biden.

“Obviously, we’re interested in Jean Pierre. … We’re also interested in Jill Biden and Hunter Biden,” he said, adding that “if the trail leads us to the next step, which many believe would be perhaps Jill Biden and Hunter Biden, then we will go there.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Tanden, Tomasini, Bernal, Williams, O’Connor and Jean-Pierre for comment. 

Two U.S. Secret Service officers have been suspended after reportedly fighting with each other in front of former President Barack Obama’s Washington D.C. mansion last week.  

The two uniformed officers were outside Obama’s residence around 2:30 a.m. on May 21 when one called for a supervisor to come immediately before “I whoop this girl’s a**,” according to an audio recording posted online. 

AUTHORITIES NAB WHITE HOUSE FENCE CLIMBER JUST TWO WEEKS INTO TRUMP’S NEW TERM

In addition to the audio, a video published Tuesday by RealClearPolitics shows the female officers punching and shoving each other.

“I need a supervisor out here… immediately before I whoop this girl’s a**,” one of the women said into the radio, the report states. 

WOMAN ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTING TO CLIMB FENCE OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE

The Secret Service confirmed the fight with Fox News Digital. 

“The individuals involved were suspended from duty and this matter is the subject of an internal investigation. The Secret Service has a very strict code of conduct for all employees and any behavior that violates that code is unacceptable.”

“Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further,” the spokesperson added. 

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It wasn’t clear what prompted the fight between the two officers. 

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to intervene and allow it to quickly deport illegal immigrants to countries other than their own, Fox News has learned. 

The request from the Justice Department comes after a lower-court judge, Brian Murphy, issued an injunction last month that halted the Trump administration’s attempts to rapidly deport immigrants residing illegally in the United States to third-party countries not their own. In the ruling, Murphy said the Trump administration must provide “meaningful” notice to immigrants it wishes to deport to third-party countries, so they have adequate time to challenge their deportation. 

The Justice Department’s request follows a separate Monday evening ruling from Murphy, rejecting the Trump administration’s request that his injunction be lifted, in order for deportations to continue while the merits of his ruling are adjudicated. Due to Murphy’s rejection, the Trump administration sought emergency relief from the Supreme Court, asking it to upend the injunction itself.

UPENDING US BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP WOULD HAVE DRASTIC NEGATIVE IMPACT, DEFENDERS WARN

At the center of the Trump administration’s request for relief from Murphy’s injunction are as many as a dozen people from various countries, including Vietnam and Myanmar, who were allegedly ordered deported to South Sudan in violation of Murphy’s earlier order. 

Last week, Murphy ordered that the migrants remain in U.S. custody at a military base in Djibouti until each of them could be given a “reasonable fear interview,” or a chance to explain to U.S. officials any fear of persecution or torture, should they be released into South Sudanese custody. As of Monday night, these interviews had not taken place, according to Murphy.

US JUDGE ACCUSES TRUMP ADMIN OF ‘MANUFACTURING CHAOS’ IN SOUTH SUDAN DEPORTATIONS, ESCALATING FEUD

It was unclear where the plane carrying the migrants may be as of last week, but a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to Fox News that the flight was in the nearby African country of Djibouti, with U-S military personnel on the scene assisting. No word on when or if the flight would travel on to South Sudan. 

A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman had indicated South Sudan would not be the final destination for that particular flight.

Reacting to Murphy’s ruling last week halting the deportation of illegal immigrants to South Sudan, President Donald Trump called on the Supreme Court to “put an END” to judges getting in the way of his immigration enforcement efforts.

“The Judges are absolutely out of control, they’re hurting our Country, and they know nothing about particular situations, or what they are doing – And this must change, IMMEDIATELY! Hopefully, the Supreme Court of the United States will put an END to the quagmire that has been caused by the Radical Left,” Trump wrote in a post shared to his Truth Social platform.

“If this is not worked out quickly, and the World is watching, our Country will be under siege again, with hundreds of thousands of hardened criminals, ‘BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS.'”

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The Trump administration escalated its war with Harvard University on Tuesday, announcing it will claw back the university’s remaining $100 million in federal funding – effectively ending all financial ties with the Ivy League institution.

“The government is out of business with Harvard University, fully,” a senior administration official told Fox News Digital.

At the center of the fight are accusations of Harvard failing to combat a campus culture of antisemitism. While the university accuses the White House of overreach and insists it is defending free speech, its own internal investigation appears to have handed Trump officials ammunition…Read more

‘MONSTERS’: Trump fires off scathing all-caps Memorial Day message targeting ‘SCUM’ who sought to ‘DESTROY’ the US

HONORING HEROES: Trump honors fallen American heroes, praises God in Memorial Day address: ‘Great, great warriors’

CONVICTION UNDONE: Trump pardons former Virginia sheriff convicted of taking $75K in bribes

PULLING THE PLUG: Trump admin seeks to cancel all remaining contracts with Harvard University

A SECOND LOOK: FBI reopening investigation into cocaine found at Biden White House

UNDETECTED: Biden’s presidential health reports showed no sign of recently revealed aggressive cancer

‘SQUANDERED’: DOGE sniffs out eye-popping spending on Biden DEI efforts in key agency

RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: GOP lawmaker blasts ‘dumb’ Trump comment on Zelenskyy despite ‘perfect’ criticism of Putin

RISING TENSIONS: Trump warns Putin is ‘playing with fire’ after declaring the Russian president has ‘gone absolutely CRAZY’

DEMOCRAT DETOUR: Maryland Democrat Ivey furious not given access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

TRUMP-APPROVED: Trump endorses House Republican who failed to vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

POLITICS AT PLAY: Vets groups torch Dems for holding up key VA picks, including memorials chief on Memorial Day

STORIES FROM THE HILL: Remembering Rep. Charlie Rangel – and a voicemail I’ll never forget

MALE ‘SYNTAX’: Dems drop $20M on bizarre ‘American men’ study in effort to dig out of 2024 political hole

DIVA DEMOCRACY: Jasmine Crockett shares bizarre song clip calling herself ‘leader of the future’

‘WEAK AND WOKE’: Rahm Emanuel calls Democrat’s party brand ‘weak,’ appearing to weigh White House run

FARM ALARM: Key Trump voting bloc has concerns with MAHA report, as Trump officials give assurances

TOXIC BETRAYAL: Veterans of US’ ‘toxic soup’ Uzbekistan base still fight for proper healthcare 20 years after it was shuttered

ELECTION INTEGRITY: Texas governor makes it ‘crystal clear’ only U.S. citizens can vote in state elections

BUSTED BACKER: DOJ reaches plea deal with Dem donor who sought to bribe her way to Kennedy Center seat

‘UNSUSTAINABLE’: Illegal immigrant health care costs in blue state triggers intense budget debate

‘POLITICAL TARGETING’: Red state official recounts personal experience of being ‘debanked’ and why it ‘has to be stopped’

SPEECH SILENCED: Supreme Court declines to review free speech case involving student who wore ‘only two genders’ shirt

SPACE FORCE BATTLE: Battle over Space Command HQ location heats up as lawmakers press new Air Force secretary

‘MENACE TO OUR CITY’: Far-left candidate’s office accused of fostering toxic environment for women

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