U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was taken to the hospital on Tuesday after suffering an allergic reaction, according to a DHS spokesperson.

She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital.

It is unclear what triggered the event.

Noem is said to be alert and recovering.

Bruce LeVell, former Executive Director of President Donald Trump’s National Diversity Coalition, took to social media to send Noem well wishes.

‘My dear friend @Sec_Noem, our fearless Secretary of Homeland Security, was just rushed to the hospital,’ LeVell wrote on X. ‘My heart is with her during this challenging time, but I know her strength and determination will shine through. Please join me in keeping Kristi in your prayers for a swift and full recovery. 

‘She has been tirelessly spearheading @realDonaldTrump initiative to uphold law and order and utilize ICE to keep our country safe from criminals. Let’s stand strong for her, just as she’s stood strong for America.’

Charlie Kirk, Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA asked his followers to ‘Pray for Kristi.’

A key House Republican says Congress should consider sending emergency U.S. aid to Israel amid its worsening conflict with Iran.

‘Yeah, absolutely,’ Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said when asked about a supplemental funding package in the event the crisis became a prolonged conflict. 

‘There’s very, very, very strong bipartisan support, in particular Republican support, for Israel, and I think again, what we are seeing is Israel doing what they need to do to protect themselves from literally being wiped off the face of the planet.’

He also commended President Donald Trump as having handled the volatile situation ‘brilliantly so far.’

The Florida Republican chairs the House Appropriations Committee panel responsible for overseeing foreign aid and State Department funding.

The National Security, Department of State, and Related Programssubcommittee was key to Congress crafting emergency foreign aid packages to Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine last year — all of which passed Congress with varying degrees of bipartisan support.

Diaz-Balart said he had not spoken with House leaders about the issue, noting most lawmakers were away in their home districts tending to their constituencies this week.

He added, ‘I’ve actually had informal conversations with members.’

He declined to say how those members felt about supplemental Israel funding, however, telling Fox News Digital, ‘I can’t speak for others, but I will tell you that there is a very strong appetite from me to make sure that Israel has all the help that it needs in order to finish the job that it’s doing.’

Meanwhile, he and his fellow subcommittee members have also been crafting their appropriations bill for the next fiscal year coming on Oct. 1.

‘We’re going to do what we’ve been consistently doing, is just, we’re going to be helping Israel. And if there is a need to do more, obviously you’re going to see strong support, whether it’s in the appropriation… bills, or if we need a supplemental, I think you would see strong bipartisan support,’ he said.

Last year, the House authorized just over $26 billion in emergency U.S. funding for Israel, humanitarian aid in the region, and shore up American military operations. The bill passed in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 366 to 58 vote — an increasingly rare occurrence for major legislation in the current political climate.

Twenty-one House Republicans and 37 Democrats voted against the measure at the time.

But since then, Democrats have continued to grow increasingly critical of Israel’s war in Gaza and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative government.

At the same time, there’s been a growing skepticism of foreign aid among the House GOP — particularly with the national debt climbing toward $37 trillion.

Diaz-Balart, however, was still optimistic that a hypothetical aid package could pass if brought up in Congress, when asked about both of those factors.

Israeli officials said Iran was dangerously close to having a nuclear weapon when its military launched an attack on Tehran that killed the Islamic regime’s top military figures and hit nuclear sites in and around the capital.

Since then, both sides have exchanged rocket fire, with fatalities reported on both sides.

Fox News Digital reached out to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., for comment on the possibility of supplemental funding to Israel.

An American citizen was among the 15 killed in Russian drone and missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital city, Kyiv, on Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce confirmed in a press conference Wednesday.

In response to a reporter’s question on U.S. diplomats in Kyiv having to spend the night in a bunker, Bruce said ‘we can confirm the death of a U.S. citizen in Ukraine.’

‘We are aware of last night’s attack on Kyiv that resulted in numerous casualties, including the tragic death of a U.S. citizen,’ she said, noting, ‘We condemn those strikes and extend our deepest condolences to the victims and to the families of all those affected.’

Bruce did not offer any more details on the identity of the citizen killed by the Russian strikes, citing ‘respect to the family during this obviously horrible time.’

She noted that ‘the president in the recent past has made his thoughts clear about striking civilian areas in that regard’ and reiterated that ‘the thread throughout all of the work that we do is the department has no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens abroad.’

She added that the State Department ‘stand[s] ready to provide all possible consular assistance.’

The AP reported that 15 people were killed and 156 wounded in a Russian bombardment of Kyiv that lasted nearly nine hours. According to the outlet, Russia fired over 440 drones and 32 missiles, making it the deadliest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on X that six other Ukrainian regions — Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad and Mykolai — were also hit during the attacks.

This comes as world leaders converge on Canada for the G7 Summit. President Donald Trump attended the first day of the summit but left early to deal with the growing Iran-Israel conflict.

Trump slammed former President Barack Obama and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for their 2014 ‘very big mistake’ when Russia was removed from the G8 summit, which Trump argued would have prevented further war from breaking out between Russia and Ukraine. 

‘The G7 used to be the G8. Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in,’ Trump said Monday from Canada, where the G7 summit is being held, while joined by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. 

‘I would say that that was a mistake because I think you wouldn’t have a war right now if you had Russia. And you wouldn’t have a war right now if Trump were president four years ago,’ Trump continued. ‘But it didn’t work out that way. But it used to be the G8.’ 

The White House is in ongoing discussions with Capitol Hill to amend a proposed sanctions bill targeting Russia, and prefers that route over sanctions led by the executive branch. 

Now, with Trump increasingly skeptical of Vladimir Putin’s intentions to end the war, the bill could soon come to the floor. According to three sources familiar with the matter, talks between lawmakers and the White House are active, though no firm timeline has been set.

Trump has pushed for peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, which have so far not yielded an end to the three-year conflict, and has begun to sour on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reluctance to find a peaceful end to the ongoing conflict. He recently questioned ‘what the hell happened’ to the Russian leader.

Fox News Digital’s Alex Miller, Emma Colton and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.

Senate Republicans are steadily moving along in their quest to advance President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ but some remain dissatisfied with one of the most crucial portions of the package.

The Senate Finance Committee unveiled its portion of the budget reconciliation package Monday night that deals directly with making the president’s first-term tax cuts permanent and the more controversial proposed changes to Medicaid, niche tax issues and Biden-era green energy subsidies.

Senate Republicans met behind closed doors to get a crash course on the bill, and some left distraught over provisions they hoped they would see on the cutting room floor. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., can only afford to lose three votes in the upper chamber.

And due to the nature of budget reconciliation, which allows lawmakers to skirt the filibuster, he can’t count on Democrats, who would demand serious changes to the broader legislation, to help get the package across the line.

The changes to the Medicaid provider tax rate, which were a stark departure from the House GOP’s version of the bill, particularly ruffled feathers among Republicans who have warned not to make revisions to the healthcare program that could shut down rural hospitals and boot working Americans from their benefits.

‘I want changes,’ Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said. ‘I’m still not satisfied with where we are on Medicaid.’

The Senate Finance Committee went further than the House’s freeze of the provider tax rate, or the amount that state Medicaid programs pay to healthcare providers on behalf of Medicaid beneficiaries, for non-Affordable Care Act expansion states, and included a provision that lowers the rate in expansion states annually until it hits 3.5 percent.

To date, 41 states and Washington, D.C., have opted into the Medicaid expansion program. The idea behind the changes to the provider rate taxes was to help pay for Trump’s mammoth bill in part and discourage the remaining states from opting into Medicaid expansion.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., argued, for a state like his dotted with rural hospitals, that the bill ‘is not a good development’ for their survival. 

‘I mean, it’s really not,’ he said. ‘And in order to pay for increased subsidies for the Green New Deal? I mean, it just baffles me.’

The Senate’s version of the tax package does add more flexibility to green energy tax credits than the House’s, an issue pushed for by a handful of Senate Republicans who wanted to see the truncated phase-out of the credits in the House bill slowed down.

Senate Republicans met with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz Tuesday afternoon to discuss the Medicaid tweaks in the bill. Oz said the White House did ‘not believe’ changing the provider tax would influence the ability of hospitals to stay viable. 

‘In fact, the provider tax and the state-directed payments are often used to pay institutions that have the best connections to the government of the state, not necessarily the hospitals that need the help the most,’ he said. ‘It is important that we clean up this system.’

Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., sought to extinguish anger among his colleagues, noting that Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Senate leaders were still working on what the final product would look like.

‘Everybody’s got an opinion, and I think it’s gonna be that way right up until we vote,’ he said.

Fiscal hawks were not pleased with the bill, either.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has stumped for a return to pre-COVID-19 pandemic era spending, a gouge to federal spending that would be trillions of dollars more than the rough goal of $2 trillion in spending cuts that some Senate Republicans are eying.

He believed there was ‘no way’ that the current parts of the broader reconciliation package could be fixed and stitched together by the Senate GOP’s self-imposed July 4 deadline.

‘The problem is it just simply doesn’t meet the moment,’ he said.

But Crapo cautioned he and lawmakers were still working out the kinks and that a resolution to his colleagues’ issues could still be found.

‘All I can say is that we will work it out,’ Crapo said. ‘We have to work that out, not only among our colleagues in the Senate, but with the House and with the White House.’

President Donald Trump has refused to say whether the U.S. will use direct military force against Iran to stop it from getting a nuclear weapon, but one top security expert is sounding the alarm that taking out Iran’s nuclear threat ‘is a job only the U.S. can do.’

Israel launched a series of strikes against Iran beginning overnight on Thursday, and according to the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, the Natanz nuclear facility’s underground structures, some 36 feet underground, did see ‘direct impact’ from the strikes, though the extent of damage remains unclear.

However, Israel did not strike the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant – which is believed to be capable of producing a nuclear warhead in as little as two to three days, according to the Institute for Science and International Security – likely because Israel does not possess the military capabilities it would take to strike the Fordow facility, which is reported to be up to 300 feet underground.

‘Fordow is not the only remaining important nuclear facility, but it’s the most dangerous,’ Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital. ‘Destroying it from the air is a job only the U.S. can do.’

The Fordow nuclear facility is believed to be Iran’s most heavily protected nuclear site, built deep into mountain bedrock and divided into two enrichment halls capable of holding some 3,000 centrifuges.

The only way to penetrate this facility may be by using a 30,000-pound bomb, known as the ‘bunker buster,’ a GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) specifically designed to penetrate deeply buried targets, though even this capability is estimated to have a reach of some 200 feet, according to publicly available information.

Dubowitz explained that to ‘inflict real damage’ more than just bunker-busting munitions are needed, including ‘stealth delivery platforms like the B-2 Spirit bomber to penetrate advanced air defenses and deliver the MOP’ as well as precision Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) ‘to ensure you’re not just damaging outer entrances or fake decoys.’

‘Only the United States possesses the full spectrum,’ he told Fox News Digital. Israel, despite its unmatched regional capability and world-class Air Force, does not yet have the MOP or the platforms to deliver it. 

‘It’s F-35I Adirs and F-15I Ra’ams can inflict serious damage – but penetrating Fordow fully remains beyond current Israeli capability without U.S. cooperation or creative alternatives like internal sabotage or specialized ordnance,’ he added.

Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday to tout the U.S. military’s capabilities, saying, ‘We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured ‘stuff.’ 

‘Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA,’ he added.

The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions about whether the president is considering a direct hit on Iranian soil, though he has repeatedly said Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and on Monday issued an ominous warning and said, ‘everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran.’

Earlier on Monday, the president told reporters he ‘didn’t want to talk about it’ when asked what it would take for the U.S. to get ‘directly involved’ in the Israel-Iran conflict.

However, he left the G7 meeting in Canada one day early to address the ongoing conflict and told reporters aboard Air Force One that he is looking for a ‘real end’ to the conflict.

‘I’m not looking at a ceasefire. We’re looking at better than a ceasefire,’ he said, adding, ‘I’m not too much in the mood to negotiate.’

Trump is expected to be in the Situation Room today, but any upcoming attack by the U.S. or Israel on Iran remains unconfirmed. 

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told ‘Fox and Friends’ on Tuesday that ‘as we speak, our planes, our air force is acting in Iran right now,’ adding, ‘we have very impressive results on the ground.’ 

‘We will continue, and you will see more results. But you know when you look at the side of Israel and compare[d] to the side Iran, we are a tiny country…9 million people compared to 90 million Iranians,’ he added. ‘So, we have limited capabilities, but we punch high.’ 

– When it comes to Iran’s nuclear program, President Donald Trump has been clear about one key point.

‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,’ the president reiterated this week.

It was one of a handful of signs from the president that he’s considering joining Israel’s nearly week-long bombardment of Iran, as the two Middle Eastern juggernauts continue to blast each other with missiles and other aerial attacks.

And a new poll indicates that Americans agree with Trump on the importance of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Eighty-four percent of those questioned in a national survey released by the Ronald Reagan Institute said preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons matters to U.S. security and prosperity. The figures were shared first with Fox News on Tuesday.

Preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons was the top response, followed by 75% who said a potential war between China and Taiwan matters to U.S. security and prosperity, with illegal immigration across the southern border of the U.S. one point back at 74%.

Seventy-three percent of those surveyed in the poll said the war between Russia and Ukraine matters to U.S. security and prosperity, followed by 71% saying the security of Israel and 69% pointing to tariffs to promote trade deals.

The poll of adult Americans was conducted from May 22-June 2, before Israel’s unprecedented attack late last week on Iran, named ‘Operation Rising Lion,’ which included strikes on both the Islamic State’s nuclear program and military leaders. The attack triggered a response by Iran, and the two sides have since traded fire daily.

According to numbers shared with Fox News late last week, 45% of those questioned said they would support Israel conducting targeted airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities if diplomatic efforts between the U.S. and Iran fail.

Thirty-seven percent said they opposed Israeli airstrikes, with 18% unsure.

But the poll indicated a partisan divide.

Six in 10 Republicans said they support the airstrikes, but that backing dropped to 35% among independents and 32% among Democrats.

Twenty-seven percent of Republicans opposed the Israeli airstrikes, with a third of independents and just over half of Democrats opposed.

Senate Republicans are moving full steam ahead with their probe into the alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s reported mental decline and have unveiled their witness list for the forthcoming hearing.

The witness list for the upcoming hearing, which is set for Wednesday and is the first congressional hearing on the subject, includes former members of President Donald Trump’s first administration and a legal scholar, each selected to give their perspective on how Biden’s inner circle and the media allegedly hid his declining health.

Included on the list of witnesses are Theodore Wold, who formerly served as acting assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy at the Justice Department and deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy during the Trump administration; Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary and communications director; and John Harrison, a legal scholar from the University of Virginia School of Law who previously served during former the Reagan and Bush administrations.

Democrats on the committee did not call any witnesses. Fox News Digital reached out to the top Democrat on the panel, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., for comment.

The hearing, led by Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., was announced last month and will zero in on the alleged concealment of the 82-year-old former president’s reported mental decline while in office by the media and those closest to him.

Cornyn told Fox News Digital that the trio of witnesses selected for the hearing ‘have impressive records defending our Constitution and serving in the West Wing.’

‘This week’s hearing is an important opportunity for the American people to get the answers they deserve about who was really running the country when Joe Biden’s health was obviously declining and the constitutional questions raised by an unfit president,’ he said.

Schmitt said in a statement to Fox News Digital that the alleged cover-up was ‘a threat to our nation and it undermined our Constitution — we must ensure it never happens again.’

‘I look forward to hearing from our panel of witnesses who will share their expertise on the Constitution, the approval process within the White House, and the media’s access to the President,’ he said. ‘The American people are demanding accountability, and this hearing will be the first step in that process.’

Fox News Digital reached out to Wold, Spicer and Harrison for comment.

Cornyn and Schmitt join their colleagues in the House who are similarly demanding answers about what really went on behind the scenes during Biden’s presidency.

House Republicans are pushing to create a select committee that would investigate the Biden administration’s alleged cover-up.

Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., introduced legislation last month to start a committee that would dive into ‘the potential concealment of information from the American public’ regarding Biden’s health.  

Additionally, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., has called on several high-ranking staffers from the Biden White House to participate in transcribed interviews regarding their alleged roles in covering up the former president’s decline.

Of the 10 witnesses he called to attend, only four agreed to participate, including the director of Biden’s former Domestic Policy Council; Neera Tanden, Biden’s assistant and senior advisor to the first lady; Anthony Bernal, former special assistant to Biden and Deputy Director of Oval Office Operations Ashley Williams; and Biden’s Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini.

After years of advertising campaigns targeting ‘woke’ hospitals for putting politics before patients, a prominent nonprofit consumer advocacy group has compiled a comprehensive report on what it says are the worst offenders and urges President Donald Trump and lawmakers nationwide to take action. 

The new report, titled ‘Woke hospitals: Embracing Political Priorities Ahead of Patient Care,’ was released by Consumers’ Research on Tuesday and took aim at five hospital systems across the country: Cleveland Clinic, Vanderbilt University Medical, Henry Ford Health, Memorial Hermann and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. 

‘U.S. consumers should be aware that many nonprofit hospital systems have leveraged taxpayer dollars and federal funding to advance controversial political and social causes,’ the report states. 

‘Instead of lowering costs and passing savings onto patients, hospitals have spent considerable money, time, and manpower pursuing a partisan agenda pertaining to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), radical gender ideology, and climate activism. This report examines five of these ‘woke’ hospital systems and the specific ways in which they have opted to engage in various forms of political activism unrelated to – and in some cases at odds with – their core missions as healthcare providers,’ the report continues. ‘Each of them is a tax-exempt beneficiary receiving numerous funding streams and benefits from the federal government.’

The report’s accusations against Cleveland Clinic, which Fox News Digital previously reported on, highlight a comment from CEO Tom Mihaljevic when he stated that ‘healthcare is only part of our mission.’

That mission, according to Consumers’ Research, includes promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) which the hospital’s chief of diversity of inclusion said in 2023, ‘has to be embedded in everything we do.’

In addition to several examples of the hospital system pushing DEI, the report outlines ways that Cleveland Clinic has engaged in ‘climate activism’ while pouring millions into ‘green initiatives’ as well as administering transgender care to children. 

Vanderbilt University Medical, a hospital system that Fox News Digital previously reported was found to be deleting some of its references to DEI commitments and resources while also keeping some and hiding them from public view, is said in the report to have received $468 million in NIH grants for medical research. 

While receiving substantial funding from the federal government, the hospital system is also pushing a ‘woke’ agenda, according to the report. 

‘VUMC’s Emergency Medicine Department featured a Diversity, Inclusion & Wellness Office co-led by two directors of ‘Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism,’’ the report states. ‘In January 2025, VUMC’s Psychiatry Department hosted a webinar addressing ‘The War on DEI,’ identifying racism, sexism, caste systems, and nationalism as significant barriers to DEI objectives.’

The report also outlines what it says are examples of VUMC promoting climate activism and providing ‘gender-affirming care’ to minors. 

‘According to the nonprofit organization Do No Harm, VUMC has provided sex-change treatments to 33 minors since 2019, with 22 patients receiving irreversible body-altering surgery,’ the report states. 

‘VUMC even awarded grants to a reproductive clinic in Memphis that assists LGBTQ+ youth in acquiring gender-change hormone therapy. Following the implementation of Tennessee’s new law, the clinic announced on its website that it now refers minors seeking such services to its affiliated clinic in Carbondale, IL, pending parental consent,’ the report continued.

Henry Ford Health has also been a previous target of Consumers’ Research, Fox News Digital reported in April, and is mentioned in the report as a place where the ‘racist DEI agenda is so egregious that America First Legal, a pro-Trump legal nonprofit, filed an official complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) calling for an investigation.’

The report outlines several examples of the hospital allegedly pushing ‘gender ideology’ and cites Do No Harm’s database, which found that Henry Ford Health ‘treated at least 63 sex-change patients who were minors, including eight patients who underwent surgery.’

Memorial Hermann Health System in Texas was also highlighted by the report as an organization rife with examples of DEI, which critics for years have argued puts politics before patients.

‘Memorial Hermann maintains that ‘health equity’ is paramount,’ the report states. ‘The system has stated its intention of embedding EDI practices at the core of its mission and vision and believes overcoming ‘historical and contemporary injustices’ is critical.’

The report adds that ‘Memorial Hermann publicly claims not to offer gender-transition services to individuals under 18’ but, according to Do No Harm, ‘has reportedly performed 15 sex-change surgeries on minors and prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy to three children.’

The fifth hospital in the report, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, has said that it considers DEI to be part of its founding values and declared racism to be a ‘public health issue’ after the death of George Floyd. 

The report states that the hospital ‘was the first hospital in the U.S. to offer transgender surgeries, doing so as early as 1966’ and pointed to a 2022 statement from a spokesperson that stated children should have access to transgender care to ‘improve their mental health.’

‘The Johns Hopkins All Children’s website formerly included a page about children’s gender and sexual development,’ the report says. ‘ It referred to the ‘emotional and physical foundation for sexuality’’ among ‘infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and young school-aged kids.’’

Fox News Digital reached out to all five hospitals in the report for comment. 

‘Henry Ford Health respects and fully complies with all state and federal anti-discrimination laws,’ a Henry Ford Health spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement. ‘For more than a century, Henry Ford Health has been fully committed to serving Michigan’s richly diverse communities, providing health care services and employment opportunities to everyone. Our commitment to non-discrimination remains steadfast.’

In a statement to Fox News Digital, a Cleveland Clinic spokesperson said, ‘For more than a century, Cleveland Clinic’s mission has been to care for life, research for health, and educate those who serve.  Cleveland Clinic is a nonpartisan organization and we neither have nor promote any political agenda. We are in full compliance with all state and federal laws and strongly refute the false and misleading assertions made in this report. The report intentionally shares information that is outdated.’   

A VUMC spokesperson told Fox News Digital, ‘Vanderbilt University Medical Center fully complies with the current federal and state mandates and directives, and any accusations otherwise are simply false.’

A spokesperson for Memorial Hermann told Fox News Digital the report ‘reflects information that is outdated, factually inaccurate and intentionally misleading.’

‘As one example of factually inaccurate information, Memorial Hermann does not provide and has never provided any form of pediatric gender transitioning treatment to patients younger than 18 years of age at any of our facilities. Secondly, we are compliant with all state and federal price transparency regulations. As the largest nonprofit health system in Southeast Texas, we are committed to delivering compassionate, patient-centered care that provides high-quality outcomes to all we serve. We do not discriminate based on race, gender or any other characteristics, and we abide by ethical and legal standards of care. We are equally committed to ensuring our policies comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.’

One of the top concerns outlined in the report is what Consumers’ Research describes as ‘insult to injury’ when it comes to federal tax dollars propping up these hospitals that are pushing ‘woke’ ideologies and shelling out millions in salaries for top leadership.

‘Nonprofit hospitals highlighted in this report and across the U.S. receive millions of dollars in federal funding, government-mandated savings programs, and tax exemptions,’ the report states. 

‘This means taxpayers are often left footing the bill for hospitals’ political activism. Hospitals receive nonprofit, tax-exempt status on the basis that they provide a broader benefit to the community. These health systems are able to couple their billions of dollars in tax savings with significant federal funding sources and government-mandated savings programs. These avenues for federal funding include Medicare payments, Medicaid payments, and federal grant funding.’

The report alleges that these hospitals often ‘leverage their position’ to receive ‘multiple special designations through Medicare and Medicaid that allow them access to more taxpayer dollars while arguing against federal cuts to current revenue streams.’

‘As outlined in this report, hospitals are taking advantage of their billions of dollars in tax breaks, federal funding, and mandated discount programs to fund frivolous projects outside the scope of patient care,’ the report alleges. ‘Instead of passing benefits along to patients and lowering costs – as these programs intended – hospitals use these programs to fund political priorities outside of their core mission of providing high-quality care and benefiting their communities.’

In addition to the report, Consumers’ Research has sent letters to President Trump, Senate and House leadership, and governors of the states where the hospitals are located calling for an investigation into the federal dollar funding streams to the organizations that could be violating anti-DEI rules and running counter to state values. 

‘The content of this Consumer Warning should provide your administration with more than enough justification for initiating a formal investigation into these federally supported hospitals’ internal activities and a subsequent review of their tax-exempt privileges and the specific government funding streams which support them,’ the letter to Trump and officials in his administration states. 

Additionally, Consumers’ Research is running a mobile billboard in Washington, D.C., and launching the website BadMedicine.Org to highlight their warning to consumers. 

‘Consumers need to be aware that hospitals in their own backyards have found ways to use taxpayer dollars to advance a woke agenda, which takes away vital resources that should be going to patient care,’ Consumers’ Research Executive Director Will Hild said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

‘Our Consumer Warning spotlights five nonprofit hospitals that are prioritizing radical causes like DEI, child sex-change procedures, and climate activism, all while receiving millions in taxpayer dollars. Every hospital CEO should read this Consumer Warning and promptly end woke policies in their organizations and refocus on their core mission, which is providing the best quality patient care at affordable prices. Until every hospital in America stops pushing discriminatory DEI policies, mutilating kids’ bodies, and promoting climate politics, their federal funding streams and other government benefits like tax-exemptions should be investigated to ensure taxpayers are not supporting any hospital’s reckless ideological activism. It is time to stop funding woke hospitals.’

A federal judge declared the Trump administration’s move to nix some National Institutes of Health grants as illegal, describing the cuts as discriminatory during remarks on Monday, according to reports.

‘I am hesitant to draw this conclusion — but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it — that this represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community,’ Judge William Young said, according to Politico. ‘That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out.’

Young, who serves in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, was nominated by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1985, according to the court’s website.  

‘Any discrimination by our government is so wrong that it requires the court to enjoin it and at an appropriate time, I’m going to do it,’ the judge said, according to Reuters.

HHS Communications Director Andrew Nixon noted in a statement that the department ‘is exploring all legal options, including filing an appeal and moving to stay the order.’

‘HHS stands by its decision to end funding for research that prioritized ideological agendas over scientific rigor and meaningful outcomes for the American people,’ Nixon declared in the statement the department provided to Fox News Digital. 

‘Under the leadership of Secretary Kennedy and the Trump administration, HHS is committed to ensuring that taxpayer dollars support programs rooted in evidence-based practices and gold standard science – not driven by divisive DEI mandates or gender ideology,’ Nixon said.

White House Spokesman Kush Desai accused the judge of airing his own view.

‘It is appalling that a federal judge would use court proceedings to express his political views and preferences. How is a judge going to deliver an impartial decision when he explicitly stated his biased opinion that the Administration’s retraction of illegal DEI funding is racist and anti-LGBTQ? Justice ceases to be administered when a judge clearly rules on the basis of his political ideologies,’ Desai declared in a statement he provided to Fox News Digital.

The White House deputy press secretary asserted, ‘DEI is based on the premise that an individual’s competence and abilities are tied to his or her racial background, and Americans have resoundingly rejected this flawed and racist logic.’

‘The Trump administration is committed to restoring the Gold Standard of Science, and that starts with recognizing the biological reality of the male and female sexes. The NIH is focusing on Making America Healthy Again by realigning our research spending to address our chronic disease crisis instead, not to validate ideological activism,’ he noted.

President Donald Trump denied reports on Tuesday that he left the G7 summit in Canada early to work on a cease-fire between Israel and Iran, hinting that it was for something ‘much bigger.’

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One during an overnight flight back to Washington that he was looking to achieve something better than a cease-fire and would meet with advisers in the Situation Room early Tuesday.

‘We’re looking at better than a cease-fire,’ Trump said. ‘We’re not looking for a cease-fire. I didn’t say that I was looking for a cease-fire.’

When asked what was better than a cease-fire, Trump responded, ‘An end. A real end, not ceasefire. An end.’ The president added that ‘giving up entirely’ was also an option.

Trump earlier denied reports that he was rushing back to Washington to work on a cease-fire, saying on his Truth Social platform that ‘it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that.’

Trump also issued an ominous warning on the platform Monday evening, writing that ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,’ and adding ‘Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!’

When reporters aboard Air Force One asked about his call for the residents of Tehran to evacuate, Trump said there was no threat, but ‘there’s a lot of bad things happening and I think it’s safer for them to evacuate.’

Trump, however, echoed his stance on Iran’s nuclear program.

‘Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, it’s very simple,’ Trump told reporters.

He accused Iranian leaders of being unwilling to reach an agreement over their nuclear program, and suggested he was now less interested in talking with them.

‘They should have done the deal. I told them, ‘Do the deal,’’ Trump said. ‘So I don’t know. I’m not too much in the mood to negotiate.’

When Trump was asked again if the U.S. getting involved militarily would ensure a wipeout of Iran’s nuclear program, Trump said, ‘I hope their program is going to be wiped out long before that. They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon.’

While Trump appeared bearish on negotiations, he said that he may consider sending Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff to meet with the Iranians.

‘It depends on what happens when I get back,’ Trump said of the Israel-Iran conflict, telling reporters that ‘nobody’s slowed up so far.’

Fox News’ Kaitlin Sprague, Luke Trevisan and Nick Rojas contributed to this report.