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Fox News Poll: Modest boost in support for Iran conflict, but concerns persist

April 23, 2026 6:00pm EDT / Fox News

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Trump cracks down on Iranian ships placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz

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As the war in Iran nears the two-month mark, a new Fox News Poll shows a modest uptick in support, though voters remain divided on key aspects of the conflict – especially over its long-term consequences and U.S. safety.

The survey, released Thursday, shows support for the current military action in Iran at 45%, up from 42% support last month. A majority of 55% oppose it.

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Still, a slim majority thinks things are going well in Iran (51% well vs. 49% not well), a flip from March when voters said the action was not going well (47% vs. 52%).

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The bump in support for the war can be mostly attributed to non-MAGA Republicans (+11 points in support), Hispanic voters (+10), men over age 45 (+8), and independents (+5).

Looking at the likely effect on security, voters still narrowly say the action will make the U.S. less safe (36% safer, 39% less safe, 25% no difference). However, this gap has narrowed since March (33%, 44%, 23% respectively).

Voters are also not convinced the costs of the war are worth it. A 57% majority believes the action will not improve U.S. safety enough to justify the problems it has created, while 43% say the short-term problems will be worth it in the long run.

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Although voters across the board express skepticism, partisan differences are stark. Roughly 3 in 10 Republicans, 7 in 10 independents, and 8 in 10 Democrats, think improved safety does not justify the challenges.

The most important objectives for voters are avoiding a prolonged conflict and keeping the Strait of Hormuz open (80% say it is extremely or very important for each).Majorities also think it’s extremely or very important to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program (72%), support the people of Iran (65%) and bring about changes to Iran’s government (55%).

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The top objective for Democrats and independents is avoiding a prolonged conflict, while for Republicans it’s ending Iran’s nuclear program.

Six in 10 (59%) rate the performance of the U.S. military in the conflict as excellent (32%) or good (27%), about where sentiment was last month (58% excellent/good).

More than 5 in 10 independents (53%) and 8 in 10 Republicans (81%) rate the military positively, while just 4 in 10 Democrats agree (40%).

“One of the more remarkable statistics attesting to the country’s intense polarization is that when asked about the U.S. military’s performance in Iran, by 20 percentage points Democrats rate it negatively, and it’s difficult to proffer an explanation other than those who dislike President Trump are unwilling to say anything positive about anything he touches,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who works on Fox News polls with Democrat Chris Anderson.

Among those who have served in the military, support for the current action in Iran has dipped slightly (down 4 points since March), but a majority still supports it (57%), thinks things are going well (65%), rates the military positively (78% excellent/good) and half think the military action will make the U.S. safer (50%).

Trump said Tuesday the U.S. will extend its ceasefire with Iran, a day before it was set to end and amid a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports. This comes as peace talks in Pakistan involving Vice President JD Vance were delayed as Iran has not committed to participating yet.The survey was conducted April 17-20.

When asked to rate how tough Trump has been on Iran, more voters say he’s been too tough (40%), rather than not tough enough (28%) or about right (30%).

The 40% saying Trump is too tough is up from 18% in May 2019 (the last time the question was asked) – mainly driven by Democrats and independents thinking he’s too tough now.

When it comes to the president’s approach to China, however, results are reversed: 21% say he’s too tough, 40% not tough enough, and 38% about right.

More broadly, Trump’s job performance on foreign policy is underwater by 20 points (40% approve, 60% disapprove). He does slightly better on his handling of China (42%, 57%) but worse on Iran (37%, 63%).

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His overall job rating sits at 42% approve and 58% disapprove, about where it was last month (41%-59%).

Some Cabinet officials are also facing headwinds in their job performance. Vance’s net approval rating is -11 points (44% approve – 55% disapprove) and down from -8 in December.

Sec. of State Rubio’s net approval rating is -12, down from -5, which is the steepest decline in the Cabinet (44% approve, 56% disapprove).

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Sec. of War Hegseth’s rating ticked up 2 points to -17, but he remains the lowest rated of the three (41% approve, 58% disapprove).

Iran is not the only foreign policy issue where voters are divided.They are split on U.S. support of Israel, as 40% say it’s too supportive, another 40% about right, and 19% say not supportive enough.

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At 40%, the share saying the U.S. is too supportive is the highest since 2023, up from 35% the last time the question was asked in September 2025.

Democrats under age 45 (+9 points saying too supportive since 2025) and Republicans under age 45 (+7), are increasingly more likely to feel the U.S. is too supportive of Israel. Republicans ages 45+ have the highest share of those who think support is about right (70%) while Democrats ages 45+ say too supportive (57%).

The largest share of Protestants (45%), Catholics (44%), and White Catholics (48%) say support is about right.

On Ukraine, 39% of voters say the U.S. should be doing more to support them against Russia, 26% say less and 34% feel the U.S. is doing the right amount.This is close to where sentiment has been since last summer.

One more thing…

Trump is a frequent poster on social media, and a majority of voters see these posts as instant reactions to current events (65%) rather than strategic efforts to accomplish goals (34%).

Still, the number viewing them as strategic is up 15 points since 2018, when only 19% said his tweeting had a broader purpose. At that time, 28% of Republicans felt his tweeting was strategic compared to the 52% who feel that way about his social media posts today.That compares with smaller increases among independents (+13 points) and Democrats (+4).

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Conducted April 17-20, 2026, under the direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a sample of 1,001 registered voters randomly selected from a national voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (116) and cellphones (635) or completed the survey online after receiving a text (250). Results based on the full sample have a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points. Sampling error for results among subgroups is higher. In addition to sampling error, question wording and order can influence results. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education, and area variables to ensure the demographics are representative of the registered voter population. Sources for developing weight targets include the most recent American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis, and voter file data.

Air travel prices likely to get worse in coming weeks, Chevron CEO says

April 23, 2026 / 5:14 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Chevron’s chief executive predicted travelers could see airline fares rise and fewer flights available in the coming weeks, as the standoff with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz continues to rattle global markets and drive up the price of fuel.

“We’ve seen some upward pressure on gasoline prices now. I think aviation is clearly an area where it’s going to probably get worse over the next few weeks,” Chevron CEO Mike Wirth said in an interview Thursday with “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”

“We are seeing jet fuel tighten very quickly in Europe, in Asia, and we’re seeing airlines announce adjustments in their flight schedules. We’re seeing it flow through into fares. I think that’s one of the first places it will be felt most broadly,” he said.

Wirth said there was already a jet fuel shortage in certain parts of the world before the war with Iran began on Feb. 28. Airlines have hiked their bag check fees and cut routes since the start of the war in response to the crisis. Carriers based in the U.S. are slightly better positioned than European airlines because the U.S. produces its own jet fuel.

“I think the upward pressure that they’re seeing on prices and the tightness in the market is likely to lead to further route optimization. And so flights may not be as abundant as they otherwise would have been. I think planes will probably be more full than they would have been,” Wirth said.

“And yes, fares — fares could be higher,” he added.

In North America, jet fuel prices have surged more than 80% compared with this time last year, according to the International Air Transport Association.

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The average cost of gas nationwide was $4.03 per gallon on Thursday, approaching nearly a dollar more than the price per gallon a year ago, according to CBS News’ price tracker. Diesel, which powers trucks, boats and trains, has risen more quickly than regular gasoline and was at $5.47 per gallon on Thursday.

Watch more of the interview Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”

Trump urges Congress to update law to ensure access to cannabidiol products

2026-04-23 22:35:04 UTC / Reuters

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April 23, 2026 10:35 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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Trump says he’ll resurface the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, turning it blue

April 23, 2026 / 5:51 PM EDT / CBS News

President Trump’s renovation kick has now reached the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The president told reporters Thursday that his administration is planning to pour down a new surface onto the bottom of the pool, atop its stone flooring. The surface — made out of the “latest and greatest filament” — will be colored “American flag blue,” he said.

Built in the 1920s, the Reflecting Pool and its surroundings were comprehensively renovated in 2012, paid for by $34 million in Obama-era stimulus funding. The National Park Service has carried out some renovations since then, and the pool is also periodically drained to scrub out algae, garbage, goose droppings and other detritus.

But during an Oval Office event on drug prices, Mr. Trump said he is disturbed by the “terrible” condition of the pool, a historic sight that featured heavily in Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington and other major events at the Lincoln Memorial.

He estimated that renovating the pool will take about a week and cost roughly $1.5 million. He said contractors have begun working on the stones, and started laying down its new “industrial-grade” surface on Thursday.

“You’re going to end up with a beautiful, beautiful reflecting pool, the way it’s supposed to be,” he said, showing photos of the construction process. “Much better than it ever was, actually.”

President Trump holds an image of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during an event on health care affordability in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington. Mark Schiefelbein / AP

Mr. Trump told reporters he drew inspiration for the project from his days as a New York real estate developer, during which he estimated that he built more than 100 swimming pools. He said it was “essentially a pool surface” and that he told one contractor to “think of it as a swimming pool.” (The basin is more than 300,000 square feet and the length of about 12 Olympic-sized swimming pools.)

Tasked with choosing a color for the pool floor, Mr. Trump said an unspecified contractor talked him out of picking Bahamas-style turquoise, arguing “American flag blue” would look more appropriate.

Mr. Trump has pledged to deal with the Reflecting Pool in the past. In November, he posted to social media a video of garbage strewn next to the pool surface, writing: “Study it hard because you won’t be seeing this Biden filth and incompetence much longer!”

Earlier this month, he wrote that he and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will fix the pool “at a fraction of the cost” that the administration was initially quoted.

Since returning to the presidency last year, Mr. Trump has sought to put his stamp on major landmarks in the D.C. area, making changes large (tearing down the White House’s East Wing to make way for a ballroom) and small (adding a “Presidential Walk of Fame” to the West Wing).

He has also proposed overhauling the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, building a gigantic triumphal arch across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial and painting the Eisenhower Executive Office Building white.

Mr. Trump has pitched the renovation projects as a way to beautify the city and address long-overdue maintenance needs, and has argued that his planned White House ballroom will serve as a much-needed event space that can be used for state dinners and other functions.

But some of the projects have drawn criticism from preservation groups and congressional Democrats who argue that he is unilaterally changing — and in some cases, tearing down — iconic public spaces without sufficient input from Congress or the public.

The president has also faced criticism over the funding mechanism for the ballroom, paid for with hundreds of millions in private donations, and for a decision by the Kennedy Center’s board last year to add Mr. Trump to the center’s name.

DeSantis taunts Jeffries with Florida invite — Dem leader responds with $20M warning shot

2026-04-23 16:39 EDT / Fox News

Florida’s special legislative session on congressional redistricting gets underway Tuesday amid national GOP pressure

By Paul Steinhauser, Fox News

Published April 23, 2026 4:39pm EDT

House Democratic Leader Jeffries claps back at GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’ fishing invite, vows $20M Florida push

It’s day two of congressional redistricting trash talk between House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. (Credit: NBC Pool)

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There’s no let up in the verbal fireworks between House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida in their war of words over congressional redistricting.

One day after DeSantis on Wednesday taunted Jeffries, saying “there’s nothing that could be better for Republicans in Florida than to see Jeffries … everywhere around this state,” the top Democrat in the House fired back.

Pointing to the announcement Thursday morning from a top super PAC aligned with House Democrats that it will shell out $20 million to target potentially vulnerable Florida Republican members of Congress, Jeffries said the move is “making it clear that we’re on offense. That’s our Democratic gift to Ron DeSantis and the Florida Republicans, who he is putting in jeopardy.”

The trading of trash talk between the congressman from New York and the two-term Sunshine State governor comes ahead of next week’s special session of the Florida legislature that DeSantis called to enact congressional redistricting to create additional right-leaning U.S. House seats.

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Florida is the latest battleground between President Donald Trump and Republicans versus Democrats in the high-stakes showdown over congressional redistricting. Both parties have been redrawing the House district lines in states they control to gain partisan advantages heading into this year’s midterm elections, when the GOP will be defending its razor-thin congressional majority.

Pressure from fellow Republicans is mounting on DeSantis to take action after the passage earlier this week in Virginia of a congressional redistricting referendum, which if it clears legal hurdles, will give the Democrat-controlled legislature — rather than the current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election.

It could result in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia’s congressional delegation, up from their current 6-5 edge.

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Signs urge early voters to vote yes or no on the Virginia redistricting referendum at the Ellen M. Bozman Government Center in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Early voting continues across the state for Virginia’s redistricting ballot referendum.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

DeSantis called next week’s special session to create more GOP-friendly congressional seats in a state where Republicans currently control 20 of 28 congressional districts.

But the road ahead for Florida Republicans isn’t easy: they already changed the House district lines four years ago, and it’s illegal under the state constitution to draw maps for partisan gain, which is known as gerrymandering.

Jeffries on Wednesday took aim at what he’s dubbed “dummymander,” which is a play on gerrymander, and argued that redrawing the maps in a state where the GOP suffered setbacks earlier this year in special legislative elections would harm Republican members of Congress.

“Our message to Florida Republicans is, ‘F around and find out,’” Jeffries told reporters as he referenced next week’s redistricting legislative session. Jeffries said the redistricting move would lead Democrats to increase their target list of vulnerable Florida House Republicans.

He warned DeSantis and Republicans that “the electoral tide is turning in Florida,”

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, left, pictured alongside U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., right.(Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Pushing back, DeSantis said “Please. Be my guest. I will pay for you to come down to Florida to campaign.”

“I’ll put you up in the Florida governor’s mansion. We will take you fishing,” the governor added.

Aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterms, Trump last spring first floated the idea of rare, but not unheard of, mid-decade congressional redistricting.

The mission was simple: redraw congressional district maps in red states to pad the GOP’s fragile House majority to keep control of the chamber in the midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.

When asked by reporters last summer about his plan to add Republican-leaning House seats across the country, the president said, “Texas will be the biggest one. And that’ll be five.”

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas called a special session of the GOP-dominated state legislature to pass the new map.

But Democratic state lawmakers, who broke quorum for two weeks as they fled Texas in a bid to delay the passage of the redistricting bill, energized Democrats across the country.

Among those leading the fight against Trump’s redistricting was Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an election night press conference at a California Democratic Party office in Sacramento on Nov. 4, 2025.(Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)

California voters in November overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, a ballot initiative that temporarily sidetracked the left-leaning state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission and returned the power to draw the congressional maps to the Democratic-dominated legislature.

That is expected to result in five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts in California, which aimed to counter the move by Texas to redraw their maps.

The fight quickly spread beyond Texas and California.

Republican-controlled Missouri and Ohio and swing state North Carolina, where the GOP dominates the legislature, have drawn new maps as part of the president’s push.

In blows to Republicans, a Utah district judge late last year rejected a congressional district map drawn by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that will create a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the midterms.

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Republicans in Indiana’s Senate in December defied Trump, shooting down a redistricting bill that had passed the state House. The showdown in the Indiana statehouse grabbed plenty of national attention.

Virginia was in the redistricting spotlight the past month, leading up to this week’s election, where the Democrat-supported referendum passed by a narrow three-point margin.

Now, the fight moves to Florida, where the special legislative session gets underway Tuesday.

But no proposed maps have been circulated yet to state lawmakers, and DeSantis and Republicans in the legislature have had strained relations.

Regardless, there’s pressure coming from Washington, in wake of the Virginia vote, for Florida to take action.

“Florida has the right and the intention to do it. And my view is that they should,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Wednesday when asked if Florida’s maps should be redrawn in time for the midterms.

Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.

U.S. special forces soldier who won $409K charged for betting on Maduro’s removal before raid was reported

2026-04-23T17:58:00-0400 / CBS News

By Nicole Sganga, Jacob Rosen, James LaPorta

Updated on: April 23, 2026 / 7:54 PM EDT / CBS News

A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was arrested on Thursday after allegedly betting on Maduro’s removal from office before news of the raid was made public, a law enforcement source and a senior military official told CBS News.

Federal investigators believe U.S. Army Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke made bets of more than $33,000 on the prediction market Polymarket within hours of President Trump’s announcement in January that Maduro had been captured, the source said. The bets hit and resulted in winnings of more than $409,000.

According to an indictment unsealed Thursday in the Southern District of New York, Van Dyke was charged with unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and engaging in monetary transactions from unlawful activity.

In a press release, the Justice Department said that Van Dyke was involved in the planning and execution of the operation to capture Maduro.

“Prediction markets are not a haven for using misappropriated confidential or classified information for personal gain,” U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton said. “The defendant allegedly violated the trust placed in him by the United States Government by using classified information about a sensitive military operation to place bets on the timing and outcome of that very operation, all to turn a profit. That is clear insider trading and is illegal under federal law.”

Van Dyke was a communications specialist supporting Joint Special Operations Command, the unit that oversees Tier 1 special mission units such as the Army’s Delta Force and the Navy’s SEAL Team Six, multiple officials told CBS News.

The indictment said he has been on active duty since 2008 and has been a master sergeant since 2023, and was stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina at the time of the alleged crime. Fort Bragg houses the headquarters of the Joint Special Operations Command.

In the early morning hours of Jan. 3, Mr. Trump announced in a Truth Social post that the Venezuelan president and his wife had been “captured and flown out of the Country.”

Shortly before Mr. Trump’s post, a Polymarket account holder placed a $32,537 bet on the likelihood that Maduro would be “out by January 31, 2026.”

Three additional bets were made via the same Polymarket account: a $1,000 wager on the U.S. invading Venezuela by Jan. 31; a $250 wager that Mr. Trump would invoke the War Powers Act against Venezuela by Jan. 31; and a $146 wager that U.S. forces would land in Venezuela by the end of the month.

Polymarket said in a statement on X: “When we identified a user trading on classified government information, we referred the matter to the DOJ & cooperated with their investigation.”

“Insider trading has no place on Polymarket. Today’s arrest is proof the system works,” the company said.

During an unrelated Oval Office event Thursday, Mr. Trump told reporters he hadn’t heard about the alleged betting on Maduro’s removal but would look into it.

“That’s like Pete Rose betting on his own team,” the president said, referring to the MLB legend who was banned from the sport for gambling. Mr. Trump has defended Rose, saying last year he would issue a posthumous pardon.

Asked about concerns that prediction markets could play host to insider trading, Mr. Trump said he’s “not happy with any of that stuff.”

“The whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino, and you look at what’s going on all over the world, in Europe and every place, they’re doing these betting things,” he said. “I was never much in favor of it. I like it conceptually, but it is what it is.”

While the arrest is a first for U.S. authorities, two Israeli soldiers were charged in connection with the suspected use of classified information to place bets on the prediction platform Polymarket back in February.

In a “60 Minutes” interview last year, Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan addressed the issue of users trading on inside information.

“I think that people going and having an edge to the market is a good thing,” he said. “Obviously, you need to curate them and you need to be really clear and stringent on where the line is drawn and … ethics, and we spend a lot of time on that.”

Megan Cerullo and Jo Ling Kent contributed to this report.

韩咏红：中国基层干部的政绩观

2026年4月24日 05:00 / 联合早报 韩咏红

中共今年2月下旬在全党启动“树立和践行正确政绩观学习教育”，计划到7月底基本结束。江苏宿迁泗洪县上塘镇18个社区今年均对拟办的民生实事推行投票表决制度。图为4月19日，垫湖村党委书记周磊（右二）向村民代表介绍今年拟办的民生实事。 （新华社）

中共今年2月下旬在全党启动“树立和践行正确政绩观学习教育”，计划到7月底基本结束。眼下，这项政治任务正蓄积能量全面铺开，各主流媒体和中共党组织纷纷推进，宣传正确政绩观，但本周意外地出现了一阵小波澜。

事缘中共中央机关报《人民日报》星期二（4月21日）刊文，剑指基层干部群体中存在的“过度请示”现象。文章归纳出，“过度请示”背后的原因，包括基层干部“向上甩锅”的避责心理、“刷脸表态”的投机心理、“为官不为”的躺平心理、本领恐慌的依赖心理。如此种种，让一些事务陷入“程序空转”，长此以往，不仅贻误发展良机，更会透支群众信任。

这篇题为“过度请示，该纠偏了”的文章也指出，“过度请示”是源自干部政绩观不正；不沾责任、不沾风险、不沾矛盾；只想当官不想干事，只想揽权不想担责，只想出彩不想出力。文章认为，要破除“三不沾”，还须树起鲜明导向，让敢干事、敢担责的干部受肯定、有底气。

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Work inside a small DOJ office that helps indigent immigrants get legal aid stalls after personnel shuffle

April 23, 2026 / 7:10 PM EDT / CBS News

The Justice Department program that accredits nonprofit organizations to help provide legal aid to low-income immigrants has failed to approve a single new application since March— after its attorneys were quietly reassigned to other offices, sources with direct knowledge of the program told CBS News.

A month ago, the small group of senior attorneys who operated the Recognition and Accreditation program, part of the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, were transferred without explanation to work in nearby immigration courts, CBS News previously reported.

The Recognition and Accreditation program certifies non-attorneys who work for largely faith-based legal advocacy organizations such as Catholic Charities and Jewish Family Services so they are authorized to assist immigrants on everything from naturalization petitions to representation in the Justice Department’s immigration courts.

The reassigned DOJ lawyers were responsible for renewing and approving new applications for the program.

The only two employees who were not transferred are support staff who do not have the legal authority to approve or deny applications. Since the reassignment took place, the office has continued to receive between 40 and 60 new applications per week, one of the sources told CBS News.

The Justice Department last month told CBS News in a statement that the program was not being ended and would continue.

A department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rocío Pulido, the director for capacity building at the Resurrection Project in Chicago, told CBS News that the organization not only has its own accredited representatives, but it also trains others to become accredited legal representatives and provides funding for legal aid to other groups statewide.

After CBS News first reported on the gutting of the Justice Department office last month, the group convened an emergency call with its state partners. The cuts to the DOJ program are hampering the work of the Resurrection Project and other groups.

“This severely impacts our ecosystem and our ability to provide legal services,” Pulido said. “In Illinois, we have a huge undocumented immigrant population and there’s just such a demand for immigration legal services. And we can’t meet that demand with attorneys alone.”

Earlier this week, more than 330 nonprofits who participate in the program sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Daren Margolin, the director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, asking them to restore full functionality to the program.

“In 2025, processing times had already stretched to 6 to 8 months due to understaffing. Now, the abrupt reassignment of all federal staff from the program has created setbacks for legal service providers and EOIR itself, as reported by CBS News,” the groups wrote.

“We urge you to act now to restore the R&A program to full operation,” they added.

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Trump says Navy Secretary Phelan was fired over shipbuilding conflicts

2026-04-23 22:35:59 UTC / Reuters

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April 23, 2026 10:35 PM UTC Updated 46 mins ago

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U.S. Secretary of the Navy John Phelan speaks, after President Donald Trump announced the Navy’s “Golden Fleet”, at Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 22, 2025. REUTERS/Jessica Koscielniak/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – Navy Secretary John Phelan was fired after conflicts with senior Pentagon leadership over shipbuilding, ​U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday.

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• Phelan’s dismissal, first reported by Reuters, was the latest wartime shakeup at the Pentagon.
• “He’s a hard charger, and ​he had some conflicts with some other ​people, mostly as to building and buying new ⁠ships,” Trump told reporters in the Oval ​Office. “Got to get along, especially in the military, got ​to get along, you know. And some people liked him, some people didn’t, and that’s usually the truth about ​everything.”
• Sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, previously ​told Reuters that Phelan was dismissed in part because he ‌was ⁠moving too slowly to implement reforms to speed shipbuilding and because he had fallen out with key Pentagon leadership.
• The latest departure comes during a ​tense ceasefire with Iran, ​as the ⁠U.S. flows more naval assets into the Middle East.
• The Pentagon has not ​provided a reason for Phelan’s departure, nor ​did ⁠it say whether it was Phelan’s decision to go.
• A billionaire seen as having close ties to ⁠Trump, Phelan ​is the first administration-picked service ​secretary to be fired since Trump came back into office ​last year.

Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt; Editing by Stephen Coates

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‘Lame duck’: Jeffries rips DeSantis after Florida invitation as redistricting fight heats up

DeSantis invited Jeffries to Florida after the Democratic leader’s ‘F around and find out’ warning on redistricting

April 23, 2026 7:30pm EDT / Fox News

Jeffries calls DeSantis a “lame duck” amid Florida redistricting fight

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries slams Gov. Ron DeSantis in a Fox News Digital interview, warning the governor’s redistricting push could put Republican seats at risk. (Credit: Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital)

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Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ripped Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a Fox News Digital interview on Thursday, calling him a “lame duck” after the governor offered to pay for his trip to Florida amid a redistricting push.

Jeffries warned DeSantis he could put Republican seats at risk as the Sunshine State remains in the spotlight of a nationwide gerrymandering battle, with parties reshuffling congressional districts for partisan advantages.

“Ron DeSantis is putting his own congressional delegation in jeopardy, which probably shouldn’t be surprising because all of them, as I understand it, can’t stand the charismatically challenged lame duck governor of Florida,” Jeffries said.

CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS SUE TO STOP NEWSOM, DEMOCRATS FROM PUSHING REDISTRICTING PLAN

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks before a House vote on funding for the Department of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 2026.(Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

DeSantis extended the invitation to Jeffries at a press conference in Kissimmee, Florida, on Wednesday following Jeffries’ “F around and find out” warning on redistricting.

“Please. Be my guest. I will pay for you to come down to Florida to campaign,” DeSantis told the crowd. “I’ll put you up in the Florida governor’s mansion. We will take you fishing. We’ll do all this stuff. There’s nothing that could be better for Republicans in Florida than to see Jeffries, Hakeem Jeffries, everywhere around this state.”

Jeffries warned DeSantis earlier this week not to follow Texas’s lead, where Republicans pushed a redistricting map to flip up to five Democratic-held seats.

“Our message to Florida Republicans is F around and find out,” Jeffries said. “If they go down the road of a DeSantis dummymander, the Florida Republicans are gonna find themselves in the same situation as Texas Republicans, who are on the run right now. Under no circumstances are Texas Republicans picking up five seats. They’ll be fortunate if they get two or three. While in California, we are going to get all five.”

BATTLE FOR THE HOUSE RUNS THROUGH VIRGINIA AS COURT OKS HIGH-STAKES REDISTRICTING VOTE

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers his State of the State address during the first day of the legislative session at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee on Jan. 13, 2026.(Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service)

Multiple states have moved forward with similar redistricting efforts following a push initiated by President Donald Trump.

Jeffries added that the redistricting war is not over yet.

“The Republicans are dummymandering their way into the minority before a single voter casts a ballot because they started this war and we’re going to finish it.”

With the 2026 midterms approaching, both parties hope to win the House by leveraging gerrymandering.

President Trump urged Virginia voters this week to reject the “blatant partisan power grab” in Virginia before voters headed to the polls to vote on the congressional redistricting referendum, led by Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger.

The referendum was passed on Tuesday night, securing Virginia Democrats a major win and increasing the party’s chances in the midterms.

FIRST ELECTION TEST FOR TRUMP’S TERM SURPRISINGLY CLOSE IN FL, GOP LOOKS TO INCREASE RAZOR-THIN HOUSE MAJORITY

The U.S. Capitol building is seen at sunrise in Washington, D.C., on Mon. March 9, 2026.(Jose Luis Magana/AP)

DeSantis called a special session this week to focus on congressional maps that he says will “accurately reflect the population of our state.” Florida’s state constitution bans favoring parties in redistricting.

Eight Democratic-held districts are up for redrawing. Currently, Republicans hold 20 of Florida’s seats, while Democrats hold eight.

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A redistricting plan has not been revealed.

Fox News Digital’s Leo Briceno contributed to this report.

Kiera McDonald is a Production Assistant for Fox News Digital.