A new bill introduced in the House last week aims to curb White supremacy and hate crimes, but it has also sparked concern that it would blow a hole through the First Amendment.

The Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023, sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, would make it a federal crime not just to commit a crime that is inspired by White supremacy, but to post something on social media that promotes White supremacist views if someone else then sees it and commits a crime.

‘It is a criminal hate speech law that would violate core principles of the First Amendment,’ George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley wrote in a Tuesday blog post. ‘It makes clear that the accused does not actually have to support or conspire in a crime.’

Much of the bill deals with making it a crime to commit ‘conspiracy to engage in white supremacy inspired hate crime,’ outlining the elements of such an offense. Normally, criminal conspiracy statutes require two or more people working together toward the commission of a crime, but this bill only requires one person to actually be involved in the crime, if another person ‘published material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on ‘replacement theory’, or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group[.]’

The bill says that a published message would satisfy the bill if it is posted on social media or in any other way that has a likelihood that it would be viewed by people who are ‘predisposed to engaging in any action in furtherance of a white supremacy inspired hate crime’ or ‘susceptible to being encouraged to engage in actions in furtherance of a white supremacy inspired hate crime.’ 

Fox News Digital reached out to Jackson Lee’s office for clarification as to what those descriptions mean, but they did not immediately respond. 

The bill also says that the published message satisfies the elements of the statute if a reasonable person would find that it could motivate someone with such a predisposition or susceptibility to act. A reasonable person standard is common in the law, but Turley commented on how Jackson Lee’s bill uses it to consider how a person with a predisposition to commit a hate crime might act.

‘The bizarrely written reasonable person standard is so opaque and cryptic,’ Turley said in an email to Fox News Digital, that it is ‘enthralling.’

‘How would a reasonable person discern a predisposition to engage in White supremacy?’ Turley asked, likening it to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s 1964 test for pornography, in which he said, ‘I know it when I see it,’ rather than offer a clear definition.

‘This is so flagrantly unconstitutional on so many levels from free speech to vagueness that it is actually impressive,’ Turley said in his blog post, warning that while the bill is highly unlikely to pass, it is reminiscent of laws like those in the United Kingdom under which someone was arrested for silently praying near an abortion clinic and another was convicted and sentenced to four years for ‘toxic ideology’ when he had weapons as well as SS and KKK memorabilia in his bedroom.

The very idea that a bill like this would be introduced in the first place, Turley stated, is evidence of an ‘erosion of free speech values’ like what is happening in other parts of the world.

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry lauded fellow attendees at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for trying to save the planet.

Kerry characterized efforts to combat climate change and save the planet as ‘almost extraterrestrial’ given their scope in his remarks earlier Tuesday. He also downplayed criticism that has been levied against such climate activism, noting that ‘most people’ believe he and the other WEF participants are just ‘crazy’ tree huggers.

‘When you start to think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we — select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives — are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet,’ Kerry remarked. ‘I mean, it’s so almost extraterrestrial to think about ‘saving the planet.’’ 

‘If you say that to most people, most people think you’re just a crazy tree-hugging, lefty, liberal, you know, do-gooder or whatever and there’s no relationship,’ he added. ‘But really, that’s where we are.’

Kerry — who delivered the speech during a WEF session titled ‘Philanthropy: A Catalyst for Protecting Our Planet’ — added that ‘allegedly wise adult human beings’ still want to ignore the science, mathematics and physics of climate change. He also said half the species on Earth have already been killed, an apparent reference to a 2020 study predicting that global warming would eliminate half of the planet’s animal and plant species by 2070.

He also said the current growth trajectory of the world is unsustainable and implored world leaders to double down on climate commitments and policies, saying not nearly enough has been done to stave off the worst of climate change.

‘If you look at the way we live, the incredible sort of destructive process of growth the way we interpret it — not as enlightened growth, but as a sort of robber baron growth — growth driven by a lot of different things,’ he said. ‘We had 18 separate $1 billion events in the United States last year. And you look at Pakistan with 30 million people, in one single event, displaced and their lives were affected. An extraordinary upheaval.’

‘We have to find a way to get really serious about bringing the corporate world on board around the world,’ he continued.

‘We’re not doing everything we promised,’ Kerry added. ‘Nobody.’

Kerry’s comments come as the Biden administration and other Western nations push an aggressive green transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources. In his role at the State Department, Kerry has engaged in high-level climate policy talks with international counterparts and led U.S. delegations to climate summits and events.

The WEF conference marked the latest forum in which world leaders have come together to discuss ways to limit global warming.

However, such negotiations and policies have been criticized for their potential impact on both wealthy and poor nations. 

‘We’re telling developing nations that we don’t want them to go through the process of developing, we don’t want them to have coal or natural gas or even nuclear. We want them to use wind and solar which is intermittent, which is ineffective, which is incredibly cost-prohibitive,’ Daniel Turner, the executive director of Power The Future, previously told Fox News Digital.

‘It’s the epitome of privilege,’ he continued. ‘There is no greater white privilege than being a climate change activist. It is the privilege of rich and elite folks — you could even throw in the word godless if you wanted — who need to feel like they care about something in this world. So, they cling to the climate change cult, but they’re unaffected by the consequences of it.’

EXCLUSIVE – Former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spotlights his clandestine 2018 trip to North Korea as he met for the first time with the totalitarian regime’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, in the first chapter of his soon-to-be released memoir ‘Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love.’

The new book by Pompeo, an Army veteran and congressman from Kansas who served as the spy agency’s chief and America’s top diplomat during then-President Donald Trump’s administration, will be published by HarperCollins next Tuesday, on Jan. 24.

The memoir – which the publishers say shows how Pompeo ‘spearheaded the Trump Administration’s most significant foreign policy breakthroughs’ – comes ahead of a potential 2024 Republican presidential campaign by Pompeo, who’s said he’s seriously considering a White House run.

‘It wasn’t the Easter weekend I had planned,’ Pompeo wrote in an excerpt shared first with Fox News on Tuesday. ‘My clandestine mission began on Good Friday, March 30, 2018, as I departed Andrews Air Force Base. My destination: Pyongyang, North Korea. I was headed to one of the darkest places on earth to meet with Chairman Kim Jong Un, its darkest inhabitant.’

‘The mission was a complete secret, known only to a few. My objective: correct the failed efforts of the past that had not eliminated North Korea’s nuclear weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and had, in fact, led to the current heightened threat,’ Pompeo wrote.

Pompeo, who was CIA director at the time of the secret mission, gave a firsthand account of his arrival in North Korea’s capital city and his first glimpse of Kim Jong Un.

‘This small, sweating, evil man tried to break the ice with all the charm you would expect from a mass murderer. ‘Mr. Director,’ he opened, ‘I didn’t think you’d show up. I know you’ve been trying to kill me.’ My team and I had prepared for this moment, but ‘a joke about assassination’ was not on the list of ‘things he may say when he greets you.’ But I was, after all, director of the CIA, so maybe his bon mot made sense,’ Pompeo wrote.

‘I decided to lean in with a little humor of my own: ‘Mr. Chairman, I’m still trying kill you.’ In the picture taken seconds after that exchange, Kim is still smiling. He seemed confident that I was kidding,’ Pompeo wrote.

Writing a book is a rite of passage for many potential and actual presidential candidates. Former Vice President Mike Pence, who’s likely to launch a White House run, is continuing a nationwide book tour for his new autobiography, ‘So Help Me God.’

‘If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons from Bold Women,’ the latest book from another potential GOP White House hopeful, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, was published in October. Haley served as ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration.

And as Fox News first reported two months ago, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will chronicle his life in public service in a new book that will publish in late February. The autobiography by DeSantis, who was overwhelmingly re-elected in November, is titled ‘The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival.’

Following the end of the Trump administration, Pompeo spent time crisscrossing the country on behalf of fellow Republicans who ran in 2022 midterm elections. The Fox News contributor’s travels included numerous stops in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada – the first four states to vote in the GOP presidential nominating calendar.

Pompeo’s political action committee last year went up with ads in the early voting nominating states, another sign he’s seriously mulling a White House bid. Asked in an interview with Fox News Digital in November about his 2024 plans, Pompeo answered that ‘we are doing the things that one would do to be ready to make such an announcement and then to engage with the American people on the ideas that we believe matter.’

While the White House revealed on Monday that no visitor logs exist for President Biden’s Wilmington residence – where numerous classified documents have been discovered – several people have been identified as guests at the house, a Fox News Digital review found.

Biden has hosted individuals ranging from congressional members to past campaign staff and current aides at his Delaware residence. Though the full extent of who has stepped foot inside the home may never be known, past reports, press releases and books have shed some light on who has visited there.

Biden hosted Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer, of New York, and Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, in October 2021 for breakfast at his Wilmington house to discuss Build Back Better, according to a White House press release. Their offices did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment about the meeting.

Biden’s son, Hunter, has had unlimited access to the Wilmington home. Though it remains unclear when the classified files from Biden’s time as vice president made their way into the home, emails reviewed and verified by Fox News Digital show the younger Biden listed the Wilmington, Delaware, address as his own permanent residence for his credit card and Apple account in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Hunter has also made several trips to Wilmington with his dad since he became president in early 2021. 

Others who have been at the house include past presidential campaign staff and current aides, including Steve Ricchetti, who just traveled with Biden over the three-day holiday weekend to his Wilmington house and is a longtime confidante. He currently serves as Biden’s counselor and previously was his chief of staff while he was vice president starting in 2013, before being tapped for a senior role at the embattled Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., after the Obama administration concluded.

In the 2021 book ‘Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency,’ journalists Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen detailed how Biden hosted multiple advisers in the den of his Wilmington house, including Ricchetti, his sister and longtime campaign manager, Valerie, campaign manager Greg Schultz, and Mark Gilbert, who was described in the book as the ‘former U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and a heavyweight money bundler’ who was now the ‘vice chairman for private wealth management at UBS.’ 

The meeting took place in mid-January 2019 and served as a strategy session for his upcoming presidential campaign. One of the tough conversations Biden faced was about the lack of diversity among his top proposed campaign spots, prompting Gilbert to say, ‘Sir, with all due respect and, I’ll throw myself in there, everyone you’ve named is an old white guy. You can’t launch a campaign with all white guys. You’ll be dead.’ This conversation reportedly caused Biden to turn to Ricchetti and insist they hire Symone Sanders for the campaign.

Another anecdote from the book was from March 2020, about a week after Super Tuesday. On March 12, Biden was surrounded by his debate prep team in the study of his Wilmington residence, which included his sister, Valerie; press aide Elizabeth Alexander, who is now first lady Jill Biden’s communications director; Ron Klain, Biden’s chief of staff; Kate Bedingfield, the White House communications director; Symone Sanders, a former senior adviser on the campaign and a former spokesperson for Vice President Harris; and Jen O’Malley Dillon, who was Biden’s campaign manager and the current deputy chief staff. 

Biden converted the basement of his Wilmington residence into a de facto campaign headquarters in March 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, where he frequently hosted virtual events and would have had to rely on campaign aides to help. Annie Tomasini, who is currently the director of Oval Office operations at the White House, and Anthony Bernal, a senior adviser in first lady Jill Biden’s office, ‘were allowed in regularly’ because ‘neither of them had their own families, which meant they could devote themselves entirely to the Bidens,’ the book said.

A day after the 2020 election, several of Biden’s advisers, including O’Malley Dillon, Klain, and Mike Donilon, who currently serves as Biden’s senior adviser, met with Biden in his study room at the Wilmington house, where O’Malley Dillon exclaimed, ‘Sir, you’re going to win.’

In ‘The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House,’ a book that was released on Tuesday, author Chris Whipple writes that Biden was in the library of his Wilmington home on Jan. 6, 2021, with Bruce Reed, who currently serves as his deputy chief of staff, when the insurrection occurred at the U.S. Capitol. The book also noted that Biden’s longtime confidante of several decades, Ted Kaufman, who chaired his transition in 2020 and early 2021, was his ‘next-door neighbor’ in Wilmington and asked him if he wanted to go for a walk in April 2020.

Biden has spent considerable time in Delaware since taking over the presidency, having been there for nearly 200 days, according to an Associated Press tally. During the visits, Biden stays at his Wilmington or Rehoboth Beach residences and has a full security detail. Top aides often accompany him on the trips.

Meanwhile, the White House Counsel’s Office said in a Monday statement that no visitor logs exist for his Wilmington home. 

Republicans demanded the logs after Biden’s lawyers discovered the documents in the house. While it is common practice to keep comprehensive White House visitor logs, Biden’s lawyers say no such record exists for his Delaware home.

The Secret Service also said on Sunday that while the home has assigned detail, they do not keep track of visitors.

‘We don’t independently maintain our own visitor logs because it’s a private residence,’ spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told reporters.

Biden is facing a special counsel investigation into his handling of the classified documents. At least two stashes appeared at his Wilmington home and the Washington, D.C., office for Biden’s think tank, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. The classified documents at the Penn Biden Center were first discovered in early November, but the White House didn’t disclose this until last week.

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

Fox News’ Bradford Betz contributed reporting.

Fox News’ Sophia Slacik, Anders Hagstrom, and Peter Doocy contributed reporting.

Democrat Josh Shapiro will become the 48th governor of Pennsylvania at Tuesday’s inaugural ceremony at the state Capitol, taking the oath of office on a cold winter day in the nation’s fifth-most populous state on the heels of his blowout win in November’s election.

Shapiro, 49, will come into office with more experience in state government than any of his recent predecessors, including eight years as a state lawmaker and six as the state’s elected attorney general.

He will take the oath on a stage erected behind the state’s ornate Capitol in Harrisburg, with lawmakers, members of Congress and others looking on.

On stage will be just over a dozen people Shapiro invited — including survivors of child sexual abuse, parents of children killed by gun violence and the widows of two state troopers killed in the line of duty — who aides say symbolize his accomplishments as attorney general and his bipartisan policy aims as governor.

His friends and supporters, stars of the state’s political world and many of those who will work in the new administration were in the Capitol early Tuesday, greeting each other and lining up for credentials hours ahead of the ceremony.

In his speech, Shapiro won’t spell out specific policy aims, aides say, but he will emphasize themes he developed before and after the election: that voters are embracing democracy, rejecting extremism and seeking progress on important quality-of-life issues.

He’ll take the reins of a sprawling state government — it employs roughly 80,000 employees and handles more than $100 billion a year in state and federal money — that has billions in reserve and a stronger-than-usual economy for the slow-growing state.

But he also is moving across the street from the attorney general’s office to the executive suite in the Capitol at a time when the House of Representatives is paralyzed by a partisan fight for control and Republican lawmakers are aiming to take away some executive branch leeway to enact regulations.

Shapiro is succeeding outgoing Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, who was term-limited, and will be the first governor of Pennsylvania since 1966 to be elected to succeed a member of his own party.

Shapiro himself has preached bipartisanship, emphasizing his support from independents and Republicans in the election when he rolled up a powerhouse 15 percentage-point victory over the far-right Republican nominee, state Sen. Doug Mastriano.

Shapiro benefited from a Democratic electorate inflamed by the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the Supreme Court’s overturning of the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade.

In Shapiro, they saw someone who would protect abortion rights with his veto pen and ensure the 2024 presidential election — when Pennsylvania again is expected to be a premier battleground — will be free and fair, and not overturned if the Republican loses.

Still, when Shapiro becomes governor, every new law must have a GOP stamp of approval, considering the six-seat Republican majority in the state Senate.

To that end, Shapiro has tried to avoid radioactive political issues, staked out the middle on various issues and hired several Republicans for his Cabinet.

Shapiro will sign ethics orders for his administration later this week, aides say, and will deliver his first speech to a joint session of the Legislature when he presents his first budget plan March 7.

By the time Shapiro takes the oath of office just after noon on Tuesday, he will have resigned as attorney general. In control will be his top deputy of six years, Michelle Henry, a career prosecutor who Shapiro plans to nominate to fill the last two years of his term.

Chief Justice Debra Todd will administer his oath while Shapiro, a devout Jew, will place his hand on a stack of three copies of the Hebrew Bible.

One is a family Bible; the second is from the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh where a gunman in 2018 killed 11 worshippers in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history; and the third was an Army-issued tome carried by Herman Hershman of Philadelphia on D-Day in 1944.

Members of several faiths will deliver an invocation at the event, where the capacity is about 4,400.

Taking the oath separately in the Senate chamber will be fellow Democrat Austin Davis, an ex-state lawmaker from the Pittsburgh area who will become Pennsylvania’s first Black lieutenant governor.

The inauguration will culminate in a sold-out, $50-per-ticket bash at Rock Lititz Studios in Lititz featuring performances by rapper Wiz Khalifa, singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson and indie rock band Mt. Joy.

When the Supreme Court last June stripped away constitutional protections for abortion, concerns grew over the use of period tracking apps because they aren’t protected by federal privacy laws.

Privacy experts have said they fear pregnancies could be surveilled and the data shared with police or sold to vigilantes.

Some Washington state lawmakers want to change that and have introduced a bill related to how consumer data is shared, KUOW reported.

Democratic Rep. Vandana Slatter represents Washington’s 48th legislative district, which covers much of Redmond, Bellevue, and Kirkland. She is sponsoring House Bill 1155, which focuses on the collection, sharing, and selling of consumer health data.

‘Someone can actually track you, and target you, in some way that can be really harmful,’ Slatter said.

HIPAA, the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, protects medical files at your doctor’s office but not the information that third-party apps and tech companies collect about you. Nor does HIPAA cover health histories collected by non-medical ‘crisis pregnancy centers, ‘ which are run by anti-abortion groups. That means the information can be shared with, or sold to, almost anyone.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn abortion rights piqued Slatter’s interest in health data privacy, she said. Her proposed measure would make it illegal to sell any type of health data.

Rep. Jim Walsh of Aberdeen said he supports protecting a person’s privacy, but said the bill focuses too much on what he called hot button issues.

‘Why do we need to use incendiary language, like about abortion?’ Walsh said.

The bill is set to be presented to the state House Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee. Its companion bill in the state Senate, SB 5351, is sponsored by Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond.

The Alaska Legislature convenes for a new session Tuesday with a bipartisan coalition controlling the Senate for the first time in over a decade, a divided House struggling to organize for the third straight term and a newly reelected Republican governor who said he’s interested in working with lawmakers and ‘problem solving.’

There is also a large freshmen class, and a list of familiar challenges: Dwindling savings. Oil prices well below heights reached last year. Unresolved questions about what size dividend should be paid to residents from Alaska’s nest-egg oil-wealth fund, the Alaska Permanent Fund.

For years, lawmakers have said resolution is needed on the dividend so they can turn greater focus to other issues affecting the state. Trying to find agreement on the dividend is a priority for incoming Senate president Gary Stevens, who is part of a 17-member caucus of nine Democrats and eight Republicans in the 20-person Senate.

Stevens, a Kodiak Republican, said there is interest, too, in delving into the issues of education funding and pension and retirement matters for teachers and other public employees. He said he was hopeful his caucus would ‘firm up’ its goals when all the members get to Juneau.

The Senate has seven new members, a group that includes Republican Cathy Giessel, a former Senate president who lost a reelection bid in 2020 and returns to the chamber after a successful campaign last year, and Republicans Kelly Merrick and James Kaufman and Democrat Matt Claman, who previously were in the House and successfully ran for the Senate last year.

The 40-person House has 19 new members, two of whom — Republicans Craig Johnson and Dan Saddler — are former representatives returning to the chamber after several years away.

In 2019 and 2021 — the start of the past two legislative cycles — it took until February for the House to elect a speaker. Caucuses don’t always neatly form along party lines in Alaska, where personalities and policy positions often factor in. Lawmakers hope to avoid a drawn-out fight this year.

The last bipartisan coalition in the Senate was in 2012. In the years following, there were Republican-led caucuses that included one or two Democrats.

Rep. Cathy Tilton, a Wasilla Republican, said she sees work on a state fiscal plan as imperative, with a revised spending limit a key piece. While lawmakers have long talked about the need for a fiscal plan to move away from yearly budgeting around the volatility of oil, they have struggled to coalesce around what a plan should include.

For example, how should the dividend be handled? Should there be new or higher taxes, and what would those be? Alaska has no statewide sales or personal income tax, and has long relied on oil.

There is a yearly application process for dividends, and residency requirements to meet. The program dates to the early 1980s.

In 2018, amid deficits, lawmakers began using permanent fund earnings traditionally used to pay dividends to also help pay for government, and they sought to limit how much is drawn each year from earnings. A longstanding formula used to calculate dividends was last used in 2015. That old formula has been seen by many lawmakers as unsustainable, but efforts to come up with a new one have faltered. Lawmakers have generally just been setting a yearly amount.

Dunleavy in his budget proposal called for a dividend in line with the old formula, which his office said would be around $3,860 a person this year. He said he will also press lawmakers to consider his proposal to pursue carbon markets as a way to generate revenue for the state.

Lawmakers last year approved paying residents $3,284, which included a dividend and a $662 one-time energy relief payment. The checks were approved when oil prices were around $115 a barrel. Recently, they have been around $80 a barrel.

A spike in oil prices last winter and spring, amid Russia’s war with Ukraine, were accompanied by rosy state revenue projections that have since been revised down.

Dunleavy, who had an at-times rocky relationship with lawmakers during his first term, said when he was sworn in last month that his goal is to ‘work with everybody to create an Alaska for the next 50 years.’

Stevens said he believes the administration is ‘willing to listen to us and work with us.’ But he said he thinks the dividend that Dunleavy has proposed is ‘not doable.’ Stevens said to maintain state services, ‘we simply cannot have a dividend that high.’

NEA-Alaska, a major teachers’ union, sees education funding as a leading topic this session. Its president, Tom Klaameyer, said the union wants to see a ‘meaningful’ increase in the state’s student funding formula.

Dunleavy, a former educator, in an interview said he’s willing to discuss school funding but said there also should be discussions around performance and outcomes.

‘I think we have to have a discussion about where we want our educational system to be,’ Dunleavy said.

Klaameyer said there is an ‘educator shortage crisis’ and that school districts are cutting programs and struggling to fill jobs or retain educators.

He also said he believes that ‘if you provide those resources for students, you provide the best educators in every profession in the schools, that you support kids, then the outcomes will come. They’ll be there.’

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that there is ‘no more room in New York’ for asylum seekers being sent to the Big Apple. 

Speaking during a news conference from El Paso, Texas, with Mayor Oscar Leeser on Sunday, Adams told media members that migrants who had come to the New York were being fed misinformation, including that there’s automatic employment and housing in a hotel. 

‘We have to give people accurate information, and that is what some of the centers are doing here. They are truly explaining to people that this is what’s happening in New York right now,’ he explained. ‘New York, you go there, you are going to be living in congregate settings, that there is no more room in New York. That should be coordinated by our national government, not only done locally here by those NGOs, but it should be done by our national government. That is not happening.’

The mayor said people had seen shows about New York City on TV and that they believed there would be ‘all the resources available’ once they got there.

Again, responding to a question from a reporter, Adams called on the federal government to take action. 

‘New York has been a place where the humanitarian response of the migrant crisis has been really something that’s a symbol of what we are as a country. Making sure that people have a safe place to sleep, making sure they have medical care, food, clean clothing. Our volunteers, our NGOs making sure no one is without the necessary needs that they deserve,’ he said. ‘We’ve done our job. Now it’s time for the national government to do its job.’

Adams previously said the migrant influx could cost the city as much as $2 billion.

The mayor said last week that the city had submitted an emergency mutual aid request to the State of New York.

Over the course of a week ending last Friday, New York City reportedly received more than 3,100 asylum seekers.

In recent months, Republican governors have sent thousands of migrants to Democrat-run cities, including New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Reuters contributed to this report.

A photo taken by Fox News in 2019 shows the entrance to President Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware, unguarded by Secret Service at the same time classified documents were likely in the home’s garage.

The photo, taken from the street outside his Wilmington home April 19, 2019 – the same day Biden announced his candidacy for president – shows an unattended Secret Service guard shack and empty parking spots short of the gate that leads to Biden’s house.

The president’s attorneys announced Saturday that a third batch of classified documents dating back to the Obama administration were found at the residence.

The lack of Secret Service presence – normal for retired vice presidents, who do not maintain the protection after office – overlaps with the time period the classified documents would have been held in the building.

More recent photos show this area filled with police cars, SUVs and a checkpoint after Biden became president.

Special counsel to the president Richard Sauber disclosed in a statement that five additional pages of documents with classified markings were found at Biden’s home Thursday evening, making a total of six classified documents retrieved from there.

Sauber said that when Biden’s personal attorneys identified one classified document at Biden’s home on Wednesday, they immediately stopped searching for additional documents because they lacked the security clearances necessary to view those materials. 

House Republicans are requesting two years of visitor logs from the Delaware home.

‘Given the serious national security implications, the White House must provide the Wilmington residence’s visitor log,’ House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., wrote in a Sunday letter to White House chief of staff Ron Klain. 

The congressman continued, ‘As Chief of Staff, you are head of the Executive Office of the President and bear responsibility to be transparent with the American people on these important issues related to the White House’s handling of this matter.’

Comer went on to argue that in order to fully address the situation, it is necessary to know who may have been privy to the confidential information.

Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer and Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has selected Thom Tillis, R-N.C., to serve as a counselor to the Senate Republican leadership team.

‘North Carolina and the whole country benefit from his service and I’m glad he’s taking on this new leadership role,’ McConnell said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

While the counsel position isn’t an official role, McConnell has historically offered one or two counselor positions to rank-and-file members of the Senate to have a seat at the leadership table.

Tillis emerged during the first two years of the Biden presidency – with a 50-50 Senate and Democrat-majority House – as a key negotiator in major pieces of bipartisan legislation, like gun safety law reform last year, the infrastructure package in 2021 and the Respect for Marriage Act.

Tillis also co-sponsored a number of bills addressing the southern border and fallout issues related to the border crisis in the last Congress.

With the Biden administration facing increased criticism for its handling of the southern border, a Republican-majority House, and interest from some Democrats in both chambers to address border legislation, Tillis could find himself back at the negotiation table for Republicans to strike another bipartisan deal – this time on immigration.

Last week, Tillis joined a bipartisan group of senators for a tour of the southern border, just after President Biden’s trip to Texas and amid calls for congressional action to solve the migrant crisis following a two-year stalemate in Washington.

‘There is a humanitarian and security crisis raging at the southern border, with historic illegal entries and massive amounts of dangerous drugs being smuggled into our country due to failed policies and enforcement coming from Washington,’ Tillis said in a press statement announcing the trip.

The Senate reconvenes on Monday, Jan. 23, for the 118th Congress.

Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw contributed to this report.