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EXCLUSIVE: Michigan House speaker calls for answers over $300M taxpayer-funded Rx Kids program

2026-08-06T19:50:24-04:00 / Fox News

Speaker Matt Hall says the taxpayer-funded cash payments went to anyone who had a child regardless of legal status

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Published August 6, 2026 7:50pm EDT

Michigan GOP leader blasts $300M Rx Kids program as income experiment

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall discusses concerns over Michigan’s Rx Kids initiative, including taxpayer funding, unrestricted cash payments, eligibility requirements and what he calls a broader guaranteed income effort.

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The Republican leader of Michigan’s House says a state-funded maternal health initiative has become something far different than lawmakers were promised, accusing Democrats of using more than $300 million in taxpayer funding to advance a broader guaranteed-income agenda.

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall made the remarks in an interview with Fox News Digital as House Republicans continue scrutinizing Rx Kids, a taxpayer-funded program that provides unrestricted cash payments to pregnant women and new mothers.

Hall argued lawmakers believed they were funding a maternal and prenatal health initiative, not what he described as a broader experiment in guaranteed income.

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Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall discusses his concerns about Michigan’s Rx Kids program.(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“I think the Democrats kind of slipped this in here under the idea that it was for prenatal care,” Hall told Fox News Digital. “Lawmakers did not have the complete picture.”

Rx Kids launched in Flint in 2024 and provides expectant mothers with a $1,500 lump-sum payment during pregnancy, followed by $500 monthly payments after the child is born.

According to materials provided to Fox News Digital by Hall’s office, the program has expanded to communities across Michigan with more than $300 million in taxpayer funding.

Rx Kids has promoted the initiative as a maternal and infant health program designed to reduce financial stress for new families. According to podcast interviews and program materials, its leaders have also discussed expanding the model to communities across Michigan and beyond.

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Hall argued the program lacks the eligibility requirements found in traditional public assistance programs.

“We have a lot of social safety net programs in our country that are working very well,” Hall said. “They have eligibility checks. They look at citizenship. They look at income verification.”

“Rx Kids, by design, is given to anyone that has a child,” he continued. “They don’t look for citizenship. They just pay out anyone that has a child.”

Hall’s office also provided Fox News Digital with video of legislative committee testimony in which program officials acknowledged payments had been made to individuals who were not legally present in the United States.

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Hall argued taxpayer-funded cash assistance should include income and legal-status requirements similar to those used by existing public assistance programs.

“What we prefer are the traditional welfare programs like Medicaid, the food stamp program and the WIC program,” Hall said. “They make sure you’re here legally, they make sure you’re not making a lot of money, and then they give you the benefit. That’s not what Rx Kids is.”

Hall also criticized the program’s unrestricted cash payments, noting recipients are not required to spend the money on diapers, formula, housing or other expenses related to pregnancy or caring for a newborn.

“They give you this free cash and there are no strings attached by definition,” Hall said.

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The cover of the Rx Kids playbook describes how communities can replicate the Michigan-based maternal cash assistance program.(rxkids.org)

Hall said caseworkers had told him they had seen recipients use the money for alcohol, drugs and gambling. Fox News Digital has not independently verified those claims.

The speaker also pointed to public comments from Rx Kids leaders that he said reinforced Republican concerns that the initiative is intended to become something larger than a maternal health program.

Hall’s office also shared podcast interviews in which Rx Kids co-founder Luke Shaefer discussed the expanded Child Tax Credit and the role he believes Rx Kids can play following the expiration of those federal payments.

In a separate interview, Rx Kids leader Dr. Mona Hanna discussed her vision of growing the initiative into a government-scale public program.

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Hall said those remarks aligned with his assessment of Rx Kids.

“This is a progressive left-wing experiment toward basically a universal income,” Hall said. “They’re trying to move the welfare state down that lane.”

Hall also questioned the program’s advisory network.

Hall’s office also shared archived versions of the Rx Kids website that listed Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan Secretary of State and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson’s husband Ryan Friedrichs and Community Change official Dorian Warren as members of the program’s advisory circle.

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The advisory-circle page was removed from the organization’s website days after lawmakers questioned program leaders during a June 2 Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing.

The timing of the removal does not establish why the page was taken down.

“Our secretary of state’s husband is on the advisory board. Abdul El-Sayed is on the board,” Hall said. “It’s like a who’s who of radical left Democrats.”

Hall’s office also pointed to an Rx Kids white paper examining voter turnout among recipients, as well as the program’s promotion of Vot-ER, a physician-backed voter registration organization powered by TurboVote.

Materials provided by Hall’s office also identified Hanna as an adviser to Vot-ER.

Hall said those connections and the program’s research into voting behavior deserved additional scrutiny.

“We’re trying to understand why are you so interested in the voting pattern of the people that are receiving your no-strings-attached welfare,” Hall said. “We aren’t getting good answers.”

Hall said House Republicans did not include additional funding for Rx Kids in Michigan’s newly signed budget, though the program still has access to previously appropriated funds.

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Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall, left, stands with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Hall has criticized the state’s Rx Kids program.(Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“The good news is that we cut off funding to this program in the new budget,” Hall said. “In the future, we’re going to try to put guardrails around it so that it goes to the people that truly need it.”

Rather than eliminating assistance for struggling families, Hall said he wants taxpayer dollars directed toward existing programs that assess financial need and place restrictions on how certain benefits can be spent.

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“I think people support those programs,” Hall said. “They have eligibility requirements to ensure that you’re not taking advantage of the system.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office, Rx Kids and Michigan State University for comment.

Stepheny Price is a Writer at Fox News with a focus on West Coast and Midwest news, missing persons, national and international crime stories, homicide cases, and border security.

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Trump issues new executive orders aimed at birthright citizenship after Supreme Court ruling

August 6, 2026 / 6:39 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — President Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders in his latest effort to refuse citizenship to some children born in the United States, after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship.

“We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright, it was close,” Mr. Trump said in an Oval Office signing on Thursday. “But a very, very unfortunate decision. So we’re making adjustments.”

One order the president signed Thursday targets commercial “birth tourism,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said, while the other expands the definitions of people ineligible for birthright citizenship, such as children of foreign citizens who lobby on behalf of foreign governments.

“This has been something that people have talked about, not only for years, but for decades,” Miller said of “birth tourism.”

“The idea that people come here pretending to be a tourist, pretending to be a visitor, saying they want to go to Disneyland or they want to go visit a monument or go to a national park, but the real reason they’re here is to have a child, to make that child an automatic citizen, leave our country, and then have a U.S. citizen child,” Miller said. “It gives them access, under this broken system, to welfare benefits, ultimately to the voting booth, and all the other rights and privileges that belong solely to Americans.”

Axios first reported Mr. Trump would be signing the orders.

Mr. Trump has long voiced his frustration with birthright citizenship, and he and his allies have sought to make the case that the amendment was only intended to address the aftermath of slavery.

“This was done right after the Civil War,” Mr. Trump said Thursday. “This was for the babies of slaves.”

The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, states “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”

President Trump holds up a newly signed executive order in the Oval Office, alongside deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, left, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, on Aug. 7, 2026. Jim WATSON /AFP via Getty Images

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the president’s first executive order, which he issued on his first day in office in 2025, was unlawful and out of step with the 14th Amendment.

Asked if he thinks these new executive orders will pass constitutional muster, the president said, “I think it will.”

“Birth tourism” came up during Supreme Court oral arguments. In regard to that issue, Chief Justice John Roberts told the U.S. solicitor general, John Sauer, “You do agree that that has no impact on the legal analysis before us.” Sauer said that such tourism is evidence of the negative effects of the prevailing interpretation of the Citizenship Clause.

“We’re in a new world now … where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who is a U.S. citizen,” Sauer said.

“Well, it’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution,” Roberts replied.

Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.

Trump again tries to curb birthright citizenship and ‘birth tourism’ through executive action

2026-08-06T21:46:13.885Z / CNN

President Donald Trump is taking another swing at limiting so-called birth tourism and birthright citizenship, citing a “very unfortunate decision” in the Supreme Court this year that struck down his earlier attempt to curb birthright citizenship.

He signed executive orders on the subject Thursday, which appear to largely tighten laws already in place and narrow recognized exceptions.

It’s a seemingly more limited attempt compared to an executive order Trump signed last year that sought to broadly end the right for children born in the country to people who are not US citizens. The Supreme Court rejected that effort in June, citing the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which grants citizenship to anyone born on American soil.

“We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday.

One of the executive orders signed by Trump Wednesday targets “alien enemies,” members of foreign terrorist organizations and categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments — making children born to people in those groups ineligible for birthright citizenship, said White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, the architect of the administration’s immigration policies.

The second executive order focuses on so-called birth tourism, which has been a focal point for immigration hawks. US law already bans people from obtaining a visa “for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States.”

Miller described the executive order as a ban on birth tourism, though it’s unclear how it would advance what is already in US code.

Axios first reported on the executive actions.

The Supreme Court’s decision on June 30 included a full-throated defense of birthright citizenship as it has been understood in the United States for more than a century. Children born on American soil, the court ruled, are US citizens even if their parents are in the country illegally or temporarily.

A five-justice majority held that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that right, over dissents from conservative justices who complained that the decision did nothing to stop the kind of birth tourism Trump initially targeted.

A sixth justice, Brett Kavanaugh, concluded that Trump’s initial executive order limiting birthright citizenship was barred by federal law rather than the 14th Amendment.

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community,” Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative, wrote for the court. “The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”

The court has long recognized some exceptions to the rule, and it did so again in its blockbuster decision this summer. But those are limited to children born to diplomats and “enemies” during a “hostile occupation.”

Still, several members of the court’s conservative wing complained at the time that the June 30 decision would allow the kind of birth tourism Trump was concerned about.

“The court has repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment to protect its own set of preferred rights that the Reconstruction Congress never contemplated and that cannot find support in its text,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a dissent. “Today, the court does so again by recognizing a constitutional right to citizenship for the children of all foreign birth tourists and illegal aliens.”

That opinion was joined by only one other member of the court: Justice Neil Gorsuch.

“As interpreted by the court today, the Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship on virtually everyone who happens to be born in this country, including the children of ‘birth tourists,’ women who come here solely for the purpose of giving birth to a child and then promptly return home,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a solo dissent.

中国批美国借签证阻挠阿根廷企业与华为合作

2026年8月7日 07:09 / 联合早报

华为已与CALF签合约，双方正就进一步扩大合作展开谈判。 （路透社档案照）

中国指责美国干预阿根廷事务，此前美国使馆官员对一项将扩大中国科技巨头华为业务版图的合约表示反对。

据彭博社报道，美国官员警告称，如果位于阿根廷页岩油产区所在地内乌肯省的配电企业CALF继续推进与华为的合作，将拒发或撤销CALF董事的美国签证。

中国驻阿根廷大使馆在社交平台X发文称：“有关做法充分反映出美方的傲慢与偏见，是对他国主权的极大不尊重和对自由市场原则的严重破坏。”

CALF发表声明称，上述威胁是通过短信发送给公司一名管理人员，公司已要求美国使馆通过更正式的渠道沟通。华为已与CALF签合约，双方正就进一步扩大合作展开谈判。

声明称：“CALF将继续评估来自全球各地供应商——美国、欧洲和亚洲等——的方案，并始终依据质量、价格和融资条件等相同标准作出选择。”

美国驻阿根廷大使彼得·拉梅拉斯（Peter Lamelas）否认签证措施属于惩罚。

“每个国家都会保护自己的家园，美国也不例外，”拉梅拉斯星期四（8月6日）下午在X平台发文称。“拒发或撤销签证不是惩罚，而是维护国家安全和利益的决定。”

Trump administration considers order on autism and vaccines, source says

August 6, 2026 9:26 PM UTC Updated 59 mins ago / Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump attends an event to sign executive orders related to birthright citizenship and the polysilicon industry, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 6, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein Purchase Licensing Rights

Aug 6 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is considering an executive order on vaccines and autism that could be released as soon as next week, a ​person familiar with the discussions said on Thursday.

The effort is driven by ‌President Donald Trump’s interest in further action on autism, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal private discussions. The source did not provide details of the scope of ​the executive order, which was reported earlier by Bloomberg News.

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The Trump administration, ​led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has pursued new studies ⁠into vaccines and autism despite research involving millions of people over the past two ​decades that has concluded there is no credible link.

“President Trump has been clear: America ​must have the best childhood vaccine schedule in the world,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement. “The Administration remains steadfastly committed to delivering on this presidential priority with Gold Standard Science ​for the countless parents whose questions and concerns about vaccinations have been ignored or ​mocked.”

The Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for ‌comment.

Trump’s ⁠push for an executive order comes even as his own political advisers urged Kennedy to stay away from vaccine-related issues until after November’s midterm elections, out of concern it could hurt Republicans. But Trump has continued to press Kennedy in private, asking him what new ​efforts are underway on ​vaccines and whether ⁠the health secretary believes he will ultimately prove a link with autism, Reuters reported last month.

Last year, Trump linked autism to childhood vaccines ​and to the use of popular pain medication Tylenol during ​pregnancy, bringing ⁠claims not supported by scientific evidence to the forefront of U.S. health policy.

Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist who has associated vaccines with autism and claimed that no vaccine is safe, faced a ⁠setback in ​March when a court ruling blocked key elements of ​his efforts to rewrite U.S. vaccine policy and revamp a national advisory panel on immunizations.

Reporting by Yasmeen Abutaleb ​in Washington and Sneha S K in Bengaluru; Editing by Diti Pujara and Sanjeev Miglani

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U.S. Marine veteran, detained in Russia since 2022, is hospitalized in serious condition

August 6, 2026 / 6:13 PM EDT / CBS News

By Margaret Brennan, Olivia Gazis

An American Marine Corps veteran detained in Russia since 2022 is now hospitalized in serious condition, according to an advocate for his family, who is urging the Trump administration to push for his immediate release on humanitarian grounds.

Robert Gilman, 32, is being held at a Russian hospital in what his advocate, Eric Lebson of Global Reach, described as a “dissociative stupor,” adding Gilman is being fed through a tube in his nose.

Lebson alleged that Russian authorities have subjected Gilman to mistreatment, including harassment, forced exercise sessions lasting up to 16 hours and the administration of psychotropic drugs. Lebson also alleged Gilman was pressured to fight in Ukraine.

CBS News has not independently verified those claims, and Russian officials have not publicly responded.

“The situation with Robert is far beyond anything we have seen with any other American detained in Russia,” Lebson said. “It concerns us that it could end similar to what happened to Otto Warmbier in North Korea. It is urgent that the Russians release Robert now so the U.S. can get him the emergency medical care he needs.”

The State Department did not immediately reply to a request for comment on Gilman’s case.

Reuters was first to report on Gilman’s status.

U.S. Marine veteran Robert Gilman at a court hearing in Voronezh, Russia, on April 6, 2026. Vladimir Lavrov / REUTERS

Gilman’s case comes as the Trump administration weighs whether to try to restart negotiations with Moscow over the war in Ukraine. Those efforts have slowed in recent weeks as the administration has focused on the escalating conflict with Iran and broader Middle East tensions.

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The Trump administration previously secured the release of several Americans held by Russia, including teacher Marc Fogel and Ksenia Karelina, a U.S.-Russian dual citizen who was freed as part of a prisoner exchange. But as many as 10 Americans are believed to be detained in Russia, according to sources familiar with their cases.

Other high-profile Americans released from Russian custody in previous years include former Marine Paul Whelan, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and WNBA star Brittney Griner.

广东2021年以来共打掉涉黑组织121个

2026-08-07 07:43 / 联合早报

2021年常态化扫黑除恶斗争以来，中国广东省共打掉涉黑组织121个、涉恶组织1362个，带动破获各类刑事案件1万余起。

据中新社报道，广东省公安厅星期四（8月6日）晚间发布消息称，全省涉黑恶警情连续五年大幅下降。

通报称，今年以来，广东公安机关持续保持对黑恶犯罪的强大攻势。今年1至7月，全省共打掉涉黑组织八个、涉恶组织226个，抓获犯罪嫌疑人2787名，破获各类刑事案件1238起，带动全省涉黑恶类警情同比下降39.02%。

广东省公安厅日前召开全省公安机关视频会议，落实全国、全省深化扫黑除恶专项斗争视频会精神，就开展深化扫黑除恶专项斗争进行研究部署。

会议指出，随着信息化快速发展，传统黑恶犯罪和互联网犯罪交织，一些新型黑恶犯罪正从“网下”向“网上”、“显性”向“隐性”、“硬暴力”向“软暴力”、“传统领域”向“新兴行业”转变。

会议称，此次专项斗争在持续深挖打击传统黑恶犯罪的基础上，重点依法严厉打击利用网络平台和“软暴力”手段有组织实施的裸聊敲诈、非法放贷、非法催收、舆情敲诈、恶意索赔、强迫消费、劳务碰瓷、色情敲诈等黑恶犯罪，以及跟踪滋扰、威胁恐吓、敲诈勒索等“软暴力”涉黑恶犯罪。

Why US water systems are vulnerable to foreign cyberattacks

2026-08-06T22:54:33.668Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/06/politics/why-us-water-systems-are-vulnerable-to-foreign-cyberattacks

A cyberattack on water systems in a dozen states is exposing years of under-investment in critical infrastructure and how US adversaries can threaten services that everyday Americans take for granted, according to industry experts and current and former US officials.

The cyber intrusions in some cases led to water pressure drops and flooding at facilities, according to the FBI, but did not compromise the safety of drinking water, according to state and local officials.

US officials are now asking themselves why the hackers, who struck during a scorching heat wave, didn’t go further in causing damage at the water facilities. Manipulating devices that monitor chemical dosing, for example, could have jeopardized the safety of the drinking water.

“Do we have the C team and they couldn’t do worse?” one US official said. “How bad could it be if the A team turned to the US?”

Iran is a suspect in the hacks, but US officials have not yet confirmed Tehran’s involvement.

For years, US officials have warned that sabotage-capable hacking teams from Russia, China and, to a lesser extent, Iran, were developing access to sensitive industrial networks across the US and were lying in wait for a moment of crisis to cause disruptions. The soft underbelly of American infrastructure — local water and power plants that serve military facilities, for example ­— have been targeted.

Now, water system operators in modest-sized towns and counties are at the forefront of investigation into one of the most serious cyberattacks on the sector in years. States from South Dakota to Georgia have been affected.

“It’s no secret that water utilities are under-resourced and vulnerable to cyberattacks, and it’s no secret that our adversaries know it,” said Caitlin Durkovich, a former deputy homeland security adviser in the Biden White House. “By targeting critical infrastructure, they can undermine public confidence in our leaders and impose significant costs with relatively little effort. They’ve spent years positioning themselves for exactly this kind of disruption.”

Erin Thomas, a spokesperson for the Clayton County Water Authority in central Georgia, said her team hasn’t experienced a malicious cyber incident at scale before. The water authority is investigating “unauthorized cyber activity” that may have caused a water pump station to fail, triggering a boil-water notice in the early hours of July 27.

“Our main concern when this happened was to make sure that we got the system up and running,” she told CNN on Thursday. (They accomplished that in a matter of hours on July 27).

In Rapid City, South Dakota, a “cyber incident” hit one of the lift stations that serves the city’s wastewater system, officials announced July 31.

“We’re not surprised by it,” Mike Theis, Rapid City’s public works director, when asked about the possibility of being targeted by a foreign adversary in wartime. He couldn’t recall a time when Rapid City had experienced a similar cyberattack. Theis credited the “quick action from our employees who noticed abnormal behavior” on computer systems and isolated them from the internet.

The hacking incidents have triggered federal and state policy responses. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has announced about $9 million in grants to try to strengthen the cyber defenses of water systems across New York.

Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California plans to introduce legislation next week that would give the Environmental Protection Agency’s greater authorities to help boost water cyber defenses, Schiff’s spokesperson told CNN.

Coupled with national security concerns is a deep frustration among water-sector specialists and cyber experts that there is still so much infrastructure that is directly accessible from the internet.

“For the past 20 years, experts have been telling utilities to make sure their systems were not directly accessible from the internet,” said Marty Edwards, former head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team. “This recent set of intrusions is the result of complacency and a lack of budget prioritization.”

Trump signs executive orders targeting birthright citizenship, birth tourism after Supreme Court setback

White House says new directives rely on existing immigration authorities to narrow who qualifies for automatic citizenship

August 6, 2026 4:56pm EDT / Fox News

By Jasmine Baehr

President Trump signed executive orders targeting birth tourism and expanding categories of people the administration says are ineligible for automatic U.S. citizenship.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders targeting birthright citizenship and birth tourism, saying his administration is taking a new approach after what he called a “very unfortunate” Supreme Court ruling.

“We’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair,” Trump said. “They’re building businesses around birthright citizenship. That’s not the way it was supposed to work. It’s a disgrace. They’re buying their way in, and we’re not going to let it happen.”

The moves come after the Supreme Court blocked Trump’s earlier executive order seeking to limit automatic birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House Thursday in Washington, D.C.(Getty Images)

White House officials said the new directives rely on existing executive and immigration authorities and are intended to narrow eligibility for automatic citizenship in certain cases while cracking down on foreigners who travel to the United States to give birth.

White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller said the first order expands the categories of people the administration considers ineligible for birthright citizenship, including “alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations, and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments.”

Miller said the second order was issued “for the first time ever in American history to ban birth tourism.” He said the administration will deny visas to people who seek to enter the United States “to have a child, to make that child an automatic citizen” as well as those who organize such trips.

Citing Section 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Miller called birth tourism “by definition, a fraud on the American system” and “a fraud against the American government.”

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White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller said the first order expands the categories of people the administration considers ineligible for birthright citizenship.(Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP via Getty Images, File)

Asked how the administration plans to enforce the order, Trump said, “We’re cracking down very big, very big, big crackdowns. … This will give us the right to do it in a much more forceful manner.”

When asked whether the orders would survive court challenges, Trump replied, “I think it will.”

Will Scharf, White House staff secretary, said the orders target organized birth tourism operations through visa denials and law enforcement, arguing the administration was relying on “legally validated means” that do not conflict with the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Trump called the Supreme Court’s earlier ruling on the matter “very unfortunate.”(Kevin Carter/Getty Images, File)

The White House had not yet released the text of the executive orders as of publication time.

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Jasmine Baehr is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital, where she covers politics, the military, legal debates surrounding life and family policy, as well as faith and culture.

Rep. Max Miller faces growing calls to resign from Senate Republicans

PUBLISHED Aug 6, 2026, 6:01 PM ET / CNN

By Annie Grayer, Ellis Kim, Lauren Fox

Updated Aug 6, 2026, 6:04 PM ET

Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, walks on stage before speaking at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, in Las Vegas, on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022.

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Embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller is facing growing calls from Senate Republicans to resign or end his reelection bid – but has so far vowed to remain in the race as he denies abuse allegations from his ex-wife.

Sen. Jon Husted, an Ohio Republican, said on Thursday – after sidestepping questions on the matter for days – that Miller should end his campaign and leave Congress.

“I believe Max would be making the right decision to step aside as a candidate and resign from Congress to focus on what is in the best interest of his daughter. Years from now, I believe he will look back and know it was the right choice for her,” Husted posted on X.

Pressed later on why he took so long to call on Miller to resign, Husted said: “That speaks for itself.”

Miller, meanwhile, has denied any wrongdoing and vowed to stay in his reelection race.

“I’m going to continue to push. I am going to win this race,” Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” earlier this week.

While publicly Miller continues to be defiant that he won’t abandon his bid for reelection, an intense push to get him out of the race is still underway by party officials, who believe he could now imperil the GOP’s chances in the district, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Ohio’s 7th Congressional District is solidly Republican with Trump winning there by 11 points in 2024.

So far, the efforts haven’t been successful, but the slew of statements calling for him to get out are expected to continue, the source told CNN.

Over the weekend, Ohio GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno – Miller’s former father-in-law – said that Miller “should not serve” in Congress, calling him “a danger to my daughter.”

“He should not serve in the House of Representatives,” Moreno said on X.

Sen. Katie Britt, an Alabama Republican, backed up Moreno, telling CNN “we should stand with Bernie” when asked if senators need to call for Miller to step aside.

“My heart is broken for his granddaughter and his daughter. Their safety is what’s most important and we should stand with Bernie,” she told CNN.

Speaking to reporters earlier this week, Sen. Moreno suggested that Miller had withheld a blue bunny from his daughter – the senator’s granddaughter – saying that at one point “Max would not hand over the little blue bunny, literally held it hostage for 48 hours.

“This girl is crying at night because she can’t sleep without her little blue bunny,” he said.

In the interview with Tapper on Tuesday, Miller denied that, saying, “This is nothing more than an individual who’s being politically vindictive.”

On Wednesday, Miller posted on X a message to Sen. Moreno to “stop the lies.”

Montana GOP Sen. Tim Sheehy said on X Thursday, responding to a post by a reporter regarding the blue bunny, “Max should step aside and seek help. Staying in this race makes it far more likely we lose this seat and hand Democrats a majority to impeach President Trump.”

Another Republican – GOP Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota – said he would stay out of the matter.

Asked by CNN if Miller should step down or stop running given how open Moreno has been about the ordeal, Rounds replied, “I think if Senator Moreno has made it very clear that it’s a very sensitive family member, and I’ll let him do it. I’m not following it, and I don’t have any more information than anybody else has. I will stay out of it.”

Rounds emphasized, “It’s one thing to be accused. I’ll let those individuals who are investigating it take the lead.”