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Welcome to Fox News’ Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the 2024 campaign trail. What’s happening…-Mayorkas refuses to answer questions on Afghan terror plot…-Dems fret Harris momentum has stalled…-GOP sees opportunity as Dems struggle with working class voters…Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis bashed Vice President Kamala Harris for attempting to insert herself into the response to hurricanes Helene and Milton on Thursday.DeSantis and Harris have clashed in recent days after the governor declined to take a call from Harris regarding the hurricane response. He said Thursday that Harris has “no role” in the process and added that she had never attempted to call him during previous storms in Florida.”I am working with the president of the United States. I’m working with the director of FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]. We’ve been doing this now nonstop for over two weeks,” DeSantis said Thursday. “Although I’ve worked well with the president, she has never called Florida. She has never offered any support,” he said of Harris. “I don’t have time for those games. I don’t care about her campaign. Obviously, I’m not a supporter of hers, but she’s not, she has no role in this process. And so I’m working with the people I need to be working with.”…Read moreBRIEFING BATTLE: Mayorkas refuses to answer questions on Afghan terror plot …Read moreBACK TO CRIMEA: Biden blames Obama for Ukraine war: report …Read more’GLITCH’: Harris’ past comes back to haunt her after crime victim from her policy blasts resurfaced speech …Read moreMORE NEEDED: FEMA has enough resources to address hurricanes but ‘will need additional funds,’ Mayorkas says …Read morePOLITICAL STORM: Mayorkas rips ‘pernicious’ misinformation over FEMA relief …Read more’OUT OF MONEY’: Lack of Secret Service funds, delayed payments to Homeland Security teams revealed …Read more‘KILL AND BURY’: Defund police Dem’s past comes back to haunt him in resurfaced police report …Read more’SCARED TO DEATH’: Dems fret Harris’ momentum has waned, urge campaign to be more aggressive …Read moreTESTER TESTED: GOP upset in Montana race could flip the Senate …Read moreLABOR’S LOVE LOST?: As Harris struggles with working class voters, GOP sees opportunity …Read moreUNEXPECTED OPPOSITION: Battleground Dem warns traditional voting bloc being ‘split’ in 2024 …Read moreNEIGHBORLY ADVICE: For Wisconsin Dems, a 2024 win in the battleground state is years in the making …Read more’BIDENVASION’: Kari Lake, Ruben Gallego spar over illegal immigration in AZ Senate debate …Read more’FOLLOW THE STUDENT’: Trump calls for federal education dollars to ‘follow the student,’ in push for universal school choice …Read moreDECIDING FACTOR?: Trump holds lead over Harris in battleground states on this issue …Read more’CRICKETS’: Walz silent on support for eliminating Electoral College after Harris camp says it does not back proposal …Read moreWHO’S MORE ACCESSIBLE?: Trump-Vance have done significantly more interviews than Harris-Walz …Read more‘INHUMANE AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL’: Death row inmates would be able to introduce newly discovered evidence in proposed bill …Read moreSHOCKING DEATH TOLL: More Russian casualties in Ukraine war than all conflicts combined since WWII: US …Read moreBATTLE CONTINUES: DACA saga drags on …Read moreDEVOUT CATHOLIC: Ethel Kennedy, RFK’s widow, dead at 96 …Read more’LET HER SUFFER AND DIE’: Hospital that delayed Georgia woman’s emergency D&C blamed for death: lawyer …Read moreGet the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more on FoxNews.com.



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The Philadelphia Phillies’ run in the playoffs came to an end Wednesday. The New York Mets, one of the hottest teams in baseball over the past couple of months, eliminated their division rival.The Mets now await the winner of a National League Division Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. The Dodgers won Wednesday to force a decisive Game 5. While Game 4 of the Phillies-Mets NLDS game was played in New York, a large contingent of Phillies fans gathered in South Philly just beyond the outfield walls at Citizens Bank Park. The mood at the watch party eventually turned sour as fans watched their beloved team lose 4-1.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMFrancisco Lindor was responsible for all the Mets scoring in Game 4. The Mets’ shortstop hit a grand slam in the 6th inning, much to the dismay of the Phillies’ faithful. One fan’s description of Lindor’s clutch hit quickly began circulating across the internet.”So there’s a couple of low points in my life. My dog passing away and them hitting a grand slam. The grand slam took the cake,” Courtney O’Neil told news station WFMZ-TV. “I feel like I might either check into AA, therapy or an institute of some sort, because this is crap. It’s bullcrap.” PATRICK MAHOMES’ FORMER TEAMMATE RESPONDS TO ROYALS TAUNTS DURING PLAYOFF GAME VS YANKEESO’Neil added that she wanted the bartenders working inside Xfinity Live in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex where the watch party was taking place to be “gone.””I want everyone gone. I want the bartenders gone. I want Xfinity gone. I want my best friend gone. I want them all gone. This is bullcrap,” she said.Some other Phillies fans appeared to more easily come to terms with the loss. “I’ve already hit the fifth stage of grief. It’s called acceptance. Acceptance that this team will not win for the next five years probably,” fan Jack Delvecchio told the news station.While the Mets and Phillies have spent several decades playing in the National League East, this year’s NLDS marked the first time the teams met in the playoffs.While the Phillies advanced to the World Series in 2022 and got past the Atlanta Braves to advance to the NLCS last year, Philadelphia fans will now start focusing on the offseason.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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It’s hard to understand the money when it comes to natural disasters.Does FEMA have enough to respond? Will residents get money after their car, home, business, town are destroyed by floodwaters? Will Congress approve additional tranches of disaster relief – both in the near-term and down the road.So, let’s follow the money.REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: WITH NO GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, IT FEELS LIKE CHRISTMAS IN SEPTEMBERFEMA’s coffers for “immediate needs” and the Disaster Relief Program (DRF) were nearly bone dry as Congress approved an interim spending bill to keep the government from shutting down in late September. Lawmakers awarded FEMA more than $20 billion to reload the DRF, which dwindled to around $1 billion and change in September.Congress restocked the DRF simply because it was prudent to do so. Lawmakers had to return to Washington in an emergency session in the late summer of 2005 to refurbish the DRF after Hurricane Katrina. Front-loading the DRF with $20 billion this year would be enough for FEMA to get through any natural disaster until Congress returned in mid-November.That’s why FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell signaled things were fine with money for FEMA.For now.”I have the funding and sufficient resources to support the ongoing responses to Hurricane Helene, as well as Hurricane Milton,” said Criswell. “We had thought that we would go into immediate needs funding in December or January. I need to assess that every day to see if I’m going to be able to wait that long.”This is why House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., resisted demands to recall Congress to address the storms. President Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre have insisted that Congress come back ahead of schedule. The House and Senate are on recess until after the elections in mid-November.Regardless of the severity of both storms, it’s hard to envision a scenario where Congress returns to replenish FEMA’s coffers. Yes. It’s good politics for the President, Mayorkas and lawmakers in the affected areas and others to implore Congressional leaders to summon the House and Senate back to Washington. It gives the illusion of exhausting all options. Plus, if Johnson or Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., don’t call people back, those from the opposite party can suggest that they aren’t responsive or taking the damage as seriously as they should.Moreover, it’s probably not even necessary for Congress to come back into session until November 12th. The DRF is now well stocked. Only something as catastrophic as thermonuclear war could draw down the DRF to zero before next month. So draining the fund that fast – prompting Congressional action – is not likely.When lawmakers returned in a dramatic, emergency, witching-hour session in 2005 to replenish money for FEMA in the wake of Katrina, it did so with a skeleton crew. Only a few lawmakers showed up. Then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., approved the bill on the floor after a few quick remarks and “unanimous consent.”HOW US GOVERNMENT WILL DOLE OUT AID TO VICTIMS OF HURRICANES MILTON, HELENEThere are three methods for the House and Senate to vote. A roll call vote where each Member is recorded as yea or nay. A “voice vote.” That’s where those in favor yell “aye” and those opposed shout “nay.” The louder side (supposedly) prevails. Then there is “unanimous consent.” That’s where a bill comes to the floor and a Member simply asks to pass a bill (more often in the Senate). If all Members agree, the bill is passed. But if there is a single objection, everything stops. The bill is dead.Approving an emergency storm relief bill with a handful of people may have worked right after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But American politics now occupies a very different galaxy than the one 19 years ago.In late March 2020, Congress attempted to approve a staggering $2.3 trillion relief package as the COVID-19 pandemic burned across the planet. Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution says that a “Majority” of the House and Senate “shall constitute a Quorum to do Business.” But the House and Senate conduct business all the time without a proper quorum. It’s usually not a problem so long as no one presses the issue.When the COVID bill hit the House floor, leaders insisted on social distancing. The aim was to approve the bill via unanimous consent or a voice vote. A formal roll call would require that all 435 House members come to the floor at once. Not an optimal scenario in the initial, dangerous days of the pandemic.However, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., wanted to “make a point of order” that the House lacked a quorum and demand a roll call vote. Even former President Trump torched Massie, tweeting that the Kentucky Republican was “grandstanding” and should be evicted from the GOP.Former Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md., presided over the vote. He quickly counted Members present. Both the majority and minority devised a way to bring a large number of Members into the House chamber to represent a quorum. Some materialized, spread out on the floor. Others appeared on the balcony of the then-closed public viewing gallery.For Brown, that was enough. The quorum was present. He gaveled the bill to passage without a roll call vote.In today’s toxified atmosphere, it’s hard to believe that lawmakers from both sides wouldn’t protest if leaders try to summon the House and Senate back to Washington for an emergency vote, ala, Katrina. Even though it’s disaster aid, some will carp about the extra spending. They might accuse leaders of trying to ram through the measure without enough vetting. The 2020 coronavirus package vote hints at potential problems unless all lawmakers are recalled to debate and vote on emergency spending.FORMER NIH OFFICIAL ACCUSED OF MAKING EMAILS ‘DISAPPEAR’ PLEADS FIFTH TO COVID SUBCOMMITTEEThen there is the question of offsets.Republicans representing the path of both storms certainly want the federal government to send disaster aid to stricken areas. But deficit hawks will demand offsets before authorizing new spending.”We should definitely take take it from other places that the government just doesn’t need to be spending money in,” said Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., on Fox. “There are areas that our government is spending money in that we should not be. It’s really just political pet projects.”But what one Member views as a pet project is essential spending to another. Congress will gore someone’s ox if it takes this approach.As we often say, it’s about the math.”Tell me where you can get the votes to do it?” asked one senior House Republican source familiar with the spending process. “That isn’t going to happen. That never happens.”The federal government is already into Fiscal Year 2025 and there is no agreed-upon topline spending number. So that makes it harder to find offsets.So the fate of disaster relief?”This will just go on the credit card,” said the source.Here’s what to look for in the coming days:There will be clamor for Congress to return to session. President Biden wants Congress to come back. Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution says the President “may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them.” However, both House and Senate are not in the proper parliamentary posture for a presidential recall. The House and Senate are not “adjourned.” They are technically “in session,” meeting at regular three-day intervals with only a Member or two present until after the election.Also, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., intends to bring Criswell before his panel in mid-November for a hearing.Finally, Congress will struggle with refurbishing funds to the National Flood Insurance Program and helping the Small Business Administration have enough money to assist storm victims. Mayorkas said that he has always known the flood program “to be in the red.”There’s a lot of money to follow in the coming months when it comes to the dual disasters. Was it too much? Too little? Did they spend it in the right places? Was it spent quickly? Too slowly? And inevitably, lawmakers will find something which went wrong.The storms may have passed. But storm clouds on Capitol Hill about the federal response are just brewing.



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A teenage boy floating on a piece of a fence in an area flooded by Hurricane Milton was rescued Thursday.Deputies with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office were patrolling on a boat when they came across the 14-year-old. VIDEO RESURFACES SHOWING FEMA PRIORITIZING EQUITY OVER HELPING GREATEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN DISASTER RELIEFFootage released by the sheriff’s office shows the boy alone in the water in Tampa and the boat pulls up with deputies. “We’re coming to you. Be careful,” a deputy is heard saying. The teen is seen getting on the vessel to safety. He didn’t have any injuries, the sheriff’s office told Fox News Digital. FEMA HEAD DENIES AGENCY IS SHORT ON MONEY FOR DISASTER RELIEF BECAUSE FUNDS WENT TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS  A spokesperson declined to disclose any other details, including the location of the boy’s parents. Milton barreled across Florida and reached the Atlantic Ocean by Thursday. The storm left 3 million people without power and several people dead. Milton came two weeks after Hurricane Helene ravaged parts of the southeast United States. In addition, Milton spawned a series of tornadoes that caused major damage. 



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Nearly six decades ago, Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Valvano wanted to beat each other on the basketball court as players. Today, Coach K is doing everything he can to beat what took Jimmy V way too early.Valvano, of course, died of cancer in 1993, yet it was his speech at the ESPY Awards, just weeks before succumbing to the disease, that kick-started what has become perhaps the most notable cancer research fund in the world.That speech occurred over 31 years ago, and today, the longtime Duke head coach is a board member of The V Foundation.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”Jimmy and I, obviously, were competitors when he was playing at Rutgers and I was at West Point. … We both came down to North Carolina together. We were not close friends, we were competitors. Once he got out of coaching and into broadcasting, we became good friends, and when he was diagnosed with cancer, we became brothers,” Krzyzewski said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital. “He had an amazing vision to try to beat cancer, because his was incurable. So 31 years later, I’m still on the V team. The V Foundation has raised over $350 million, and it’s morphed into billions of dollars of research. It’s magical.”Last month, Krzyzewski hosted a Jimmy V event in his hometown of Chicago that raised more than $2 million, which was a full-circle moment for the 77-year-old. It also hit home even more as both Coach K’s mother and brother died of cancer.GEORGIA BOARD OF REGENTS WANTS NCAA TO PLACE BAN ON TRANSGENDER ATHLETES PLAYING WOMEN’S COLLEGIATE SPORTS”It’s something we need to build on. It was a magical two days. Good food, good wine, and really developed a mood, a really positive attitude mood, from everyone there. They were all really happy to be a part of the occasion,” Krzyzewski said.Jimmy V’s legendary “Don’t give up, don’t ever give up” is just as powerful now as it was when he first said those words, ignoring a flashing button that told him he had roughly a minute left to speak on the stage.But because the disease still exists, and despite the millions of dollars invested, Coach K owes it to his old friend to do what he can to eventually knock cancer out.”The thing that keeps my passion is that cancer is still here, and it impacts over 2 million people in our country in some way. We’re finding cures, we are winning, we just haven’t won the whole game. This works,” Coach K said. “When something works in a game, you keep running that play.”Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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