The feud between Home Depot and the Los Angeles City Council escalated after two more councilmembers criticized the company following Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at several stores.The dispute began when Los Angeles City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado, D-Los Angeles, told Home Depot to "take your orange apron and go home," accusing the hardware chain of being complicit in ICE operations tied to the Trump administration at store locations in the city. Jurado also said she would oppose the opening of a new Home Depot in her district over the companys perceived silence on the raids."When your name becomes associated with terror, and you refuse to speak, you become complicit. Home Depot has chosen power and profit over the working people who sustain it," Jurado wrote in an Instagram post last week.IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES HIGHLIGHT CRIMINAL HISTORY OF MULTIPLE MIGRANTS ARRESTED IN LOS ANGELESHome Depot plans to open a new superstore in Los Angeles Eagle Rock neighborhood, according to documents filed with the city planning department. The project would demolish a closed Macys at Eagle Rock Plaza to make way for the store.Two additional councilmembers joined the criticism one said the chain hasnt been a "good neighbor," while another accused it of failing to stand up for immigrant laborers."We've seen multiple violent raids against innocent workers, including a U.S citizen, at the Home Depot in our district. Home Depot relies on immigrant labor, but hasn't done a thing to defend families being torn apart by Trump and his cronies. We stand behind Councilmember Jurado 100%," Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, D, told Fox News Digital."Councilmember Nazarian supports Councilmember Jurado's judgment of what is best for her own district.In the present case, he does notbelieve Home Depot has been a good neighbor to the people of Los Angeles,"a representative for Councilmember Adrian Nazarian, D, told Fox News Digital in a statement.ICE SWEEPS THROUGH LA BUSINESSES AS LOCAL DEMOCRATS CRY FOUL OVER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S ENFORCEMENT ACTIONSVideo obtained by the Los Angeles Times reportedly shows a raid at a Home Depot in Westlake, California, last week. The footage shows a black van pull up to street vendors across from the store. Federal agents carrying rifles and dressed in tactical gear exit the van as vendors attempt to flee. The agents pursue them and appear to deploy tear gas. At least 15 people were arrested, the Times reported.The same Westlake Home Depot was also the site of "Operation Trojan Horse," in which federal agents emerged from a Penske truck and arrested more than a dozen suspected illegal immigrants on Wednesday, Aug. 6. The raid came just days after a federal appeals court upheld a temporary restraining order limiting broad immigration enforcement in Los Angeles and other parts of California.Home Depot did not immediately respond to a new request for comment. The company previously told Fox News Digital it is not notified of ICE activities."We arent notified that ICE activities are going to happen, and were not requesting them. In many cases, we don't know that arrests have taken place until after they're over. Were required to follow all federal and local rules and regulations in every market where we operate," a Home Depot representative said.

FIRST ON FOXThe Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) is calling on the Senate Finance Committee to hold Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accountable at Thursdays 10 a.m. hearing, demanding answers about the removal of safety protocols for the abortion pill mifepristone.In a letter provided exclusively to Fox News Digital, ROAF argues the rollback leaves women more vulnerable and shifts costs to taxpayers.ROAF argues that the Biden-era rollback of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) requirements, safeguards in place for more than two decades, endangers women by allowing abortion pills to be prescribed via telehealth and delivered through the mail.FDA LIMITS NEW COVID VACCINE BOOSTERS TO HIGH-RISK AMERICANS ONLY"The removal of key Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) requirements for mifepristone has eliminated essential safeguards that protected womens health for over two decades," said Doug Truax, founder and CEO of the Restoration of America Foundation. "We urge the Senate to demand clear answers about why these safety protocols were removed and when they will be reinstated."The Food and Drug Administration originally required mifepristone to be dispensed in person to ensure women were screened for potential complications such as ectopic pregnancy. That changed under the Biden administration, when telehealth prescribing and mail-order delivery were permitted for the first time.MORE THAN 20 GOP ATTORNEYS GENERAL CALL ON RFK JR, FDA TO REINSTATE SAFEGUARDS FOR ABORTION DRUGSTruax warned that "allowing these powerful drugs to be ordered online and sent through the mail without proper medical screening puts women at serious risk." He added, "Women deserve to know about potential complications and have immediate access to emergency care if needed."ROAF points to recent studies and media reports, including a New York Post investigation published in April, which found that nearly 11 percent of chemical abortions resulted in serious complications such as hemorrhage, infection or sepsis. That rate is more than 20 times higher than what the FDA has previously cited.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe hearing where Kennedy is scheduled to appear is expected to spotlight broader debates over abortion and medical safety under the Trump administration.The HHS did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

The U.S. military is strengthening its Navy presence near Venezuela, as President Donald Trump seeks to stop the flow of drug trafficking from the Latin American country.U.S. naval and air assets have been sent to the region to take on drug trafficking and protect regional maritime routes, with some already used this week to target alleged narco-terrorists.A Marine strike on Tuesday struck a vessel in the southern Caribbean Sea while allegedly carrying members of Tren de Aragua smuggling narcotics headed for the U.S.TRUMP TOUTS US STRIKE AS MADURO SLAMS MILITARY THREAT OFF VENEZUELASecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has deployed several assets to the region, including USS Iwo Jima, USS Lake Erie, USS Jason Dunham, USS Gravely and USS Sampson, to target criminal organizations and narco-terrorism, Fox News can confirm."In support of the Presidents directive to dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs), Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), and counter narco-terrorism to defend the homeland, the Secretary of Defense directed the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group/22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) to the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) area of responsibility (AOR)," Col. Chris Devine, a spokesman for the Defense Department, told Fox News."Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109), USS Gravely (DDG 107), USS Sampson (DDG 102) and embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment teams are currently operating in the region," he continued.Hegseth also sent air assets "to strengthen U.S. whole-of-government detection, monitoring, and interdiction capabilities to sustain pressure on TCO networks throughout the region," according to Devine.HEGSETH ISSUES STARK WARNING TO DRUG TRAFFICKERS FOLLOWING US MILITARY STRIKE ON VENEZUELAN VESSEL"The enhanced U.S. force presence in the USSOUTHCOM AOR will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere," he said. "These forces will enhance and augment existing Joint Interagency Task Force South and USSOUTHCOM capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle TCOs and FTOs."

NEW ORLEANS Its been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm. The disaster is remembered not just for its winds, but for the crushing surge of water that devastated rural Louisiana parishes and tore through the heart of New Orleans.Katrina weakened before making landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, but still struck the Louisiana-Mississippi border as a Category 3 storm. The storm surge flooded homes, took more than a thousand lives and turned reality into a nightmare along the Gulf Coast.In Plaquemines Parish, seven-year-old Corrine English lost nearly everything when the small fishing town of Buras was swallowed by floodwaters.HURRICANE KATRINA SURVIVORS SHARE STORIES OF PERSEVERANCE"Part of me feels like it was just yesterday because of the feeling of thinking about everything being taken away from us," English said. "It just feels really raw."English said she remembers the moment watching her mother's reaction to the news as Katrina's eye centered over Buras, Louisiana."I think thats when I realized something was really wrong," she said, recalling her mother's emotion. "This isnt going to be something where we can just pack our suitcases back up and go back home."Sixty miles north, in the Superdome in New Orleans, Corbett Reddoch, a Louisiana National Guard member from Buras, expected to ride out the storm in a drill-like scenario."You'd come in, the storm would pass, and then everybody would leave," Reddoch recalled.But when the levees failed, thousands of people were trapped inside as supplies dwindled and conditions deteriorated quickly.SALVATION ARMY REVEALS HOW KATRINA CHANGED DISASTER RELIEF OPERATIONS"It was basically a three-day fist fightpeople didnt know how to act," Reddoch said.For families in Buras, survival looked different. Entire neighborhoods disappeared underwater, leaving residents cut off and isolated."Not only were they going through this as parents who had watched on TV their entire world washed away," English said, "they had to figure out how to make it normal for two 7-year-olds and a 10-year-old."Today, the only piece of Englishs childhood that remains is a Build-A-Bear she carried through the storm, a small reminder of survival and resilience."Sometimes it feels like yesterday," English said. "Other times it feels like it was 100 years ago, because my life has changed somuch. And its hard not to wonder what my life would have been like if that didnt happen."In Mississippi, where Katrinas storm surge leveled much of the Gulf Coast, communities are also reflecting on what has changed and what hasnt."Everybody had a loss," said Leonard Papania, former police chief of Gulfport. "In moments like these, you dont build character, you demonstrate it," he said.Today, Gulfport is marked by blue skies, palm trees and a new look. But two decades ago, the scene was unrecognizable. Papania, then a young lieutenant, recalls walking through streets he could no longer recognize.KATRINA: LESSONS FROM THE MONSTER STORM I'LL NEVER FORGET"It was just heart-stopping, the area I grew up in, Ive lived here all my life," Papania said. "You didnt even know where you were."The husband and father of four also lost his home.Rupert Lacy, who helped coordinate law enforcement and emergency management during the storm, remembers it vividly."For Katrina, I had that vision that this is what Im going to seeI just didnt realize it was going to be on steroids," Lacy said.It wasnt the first monster storm he had seen. As a child in 1969, he lived through Hurricane Camille, whose surge flattened entire communities."Youve got to understand the force of water," Lacy said. "Buildings that survived Camille did not survive Katrina."Today, emergency officials say lessons from Katrina continue to guide their response."We do plan for the potential failures of our systems," said Matt, an emergency leader in Gulfport. "We do have paper backups, we have alternate forms of communication."Still, for Papania, the memories remain close."I always say I wouldnt trade the experience I had in Katrina, but I absolutely dont want to do it again," he said.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to quickly make a decision on whether President Donald Trump has the authority to impose his sweeping tariffs under federal emergency law.This appeal is a result of a federal appeals court ruling 7-4 that a vast majority of Trumps tariffs were illegal according to the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act even though it allowed the duties to remain until the case was resolved.Many states and small businesses challenged Trumps tariffs in a lawsuit saying they were causing serious economic harm.FEDERAL COURT STRIKES DOWN TRUMP TARIFFS AS ILLEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW IN APPEALS RULING"These unlawful tariffs are inflicting serious harm on small businesses and jeopardizing their survival," said Jeffrey Schwab, an attorney with the Liberty Justice Center.The Trump administration, however, countered the appeal, arguing that striking down the tariffs could cause serious economic harm."That decision casts a pall of uncertainty upon ongoing foreign negotiations that the President has been pursuing through tariffs over the past five months, jeopardizing both already negotiated framework deals and ongoing negotiations," the Trump administration argued in its appeal. "The stakes in this case could not be higher."TRUMP'S TARIFF POWER GRAB BARRELS TOWARD SUPREME COURTOfficials also pointed out that the levies have raised $159 billion since late August, a figure that has more than doubled from the previous year.Although the Constitution does give Congress the power to set tariffs throughout the years many lawmakers have delegated those authorities to the White House. Although Trump has been seen to use this to his advantage, some of his duties on steel, aluminum, autos, and earlier tariffs on China were left in place by former President Joe Biden and are not part of this case.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPLegal experts have noted that the government has also warned that if the courts strike down these tariffs, the U.S. Treasury could be forced to refund billions that have already been collected.The Supreme Court is expected to decide soon on whether they will take up the case directly, which will potentially set up a major ruling on the limits of presidential power over trade.

Just a couple of years ago, Arch Manning was one of the most highly recruited high school players in the nation and ultimately decided to take his potential and high-profile last name to Austin.After experiencing limited playing time while backing up Quinn Ewers for his first two years at Texas, Manning opened his first season as a full-time starter this past weekend.He finished Saturdays 14-7 loss to Ohio State with 170 passing yards, one touchdown and one interception.Several scouts and more than a dozen representatives from a variety of NFL teams reportedly attended the game to get an up-close look at the once-projected No. 1 pick in next years draft.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMManning's performance sparked a wide range of reactions, with one scout admitting they had difficulty watching the game."Honestly, it was a little hard to watch," the unnamed scout told Fox Sports.2025 HEISMAN TROPHY ODDS: NUSSMEIER, SELLERS SURGE; ARCH MANNING FALLSThe hype surrounding Arch, the nephew of NFL greats Peyton and Eli Manning and grandson of New Orleans Saints legend Archie Manning, escalated as the 2025 season drew closer. The scout suggested the anticipation and hype were ultimately a disservice to Manning."Honestly, it was a little hard to watch," the scout said. "Hes just been hyped up so much. Almost no matter what he did, he couldnt have met those expectations. But I will admit that I thought hed be better than he was."On Monday, Manning acknowledged his performance, saying, "I've got to play better."Another talent evaluator gave Manning a more forgiving review, highlighting the "very good" talent in the Buckeyes defensive backfield. Other scouts took a wait-and-see approach, noting it was still "too early in the process."Former New York Jets scout Daniel Kelly offered an optimistic review of Manning's day in Columbus, Ohio, saying he was "actually encouraged" by his performance."Hes showed improvement in several key areas. Hes gotten better at seeing the whole field. Hes better at going through his progressions and delivering more accurately on his 2nd and 3rd reads. And hes A LOT better at feeling pressure," Kelly wrote on X. "I noticed several plays against Ohio State he was able to get out of danger and either pick up yardage with his legs or he was able to sidestep pressure while keeping his eyes downfield."Texas hosts San Jose State on Sept. 6.Follow Fox News Digitals sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was giving serious thought to stripping actress and comedian Rosie ODonnell of her U.S. citizenship, a move he had threatened in the past but cannot legally do."As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie ODonnells Citizenship. She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.Trump had made similar statements in recent months, including in July when he said he was considering pulling ODonnell's citizenship because she "is not in the best interests of our Great Country" and is a "Threat to Humanity."ODonnell responded to the president's post in July with a reference to the character King Joffrey from "Game of Thrones," saying: "Go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. im not yours to silencei never was."ROSIE O'DONNELL, DONALD TRUMP'S CITIZENSHIP FEUD CAPS DECADES OF TAUNTS AND JABSThe Constitution does not allow a president to strip citizenship of someone born in the U.S. The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., and ODonnell was born in Commack, New York.ODonnell, who has Irish grandparents, moved to Ireland with her daughter earlier this year following Trump's electoral win and is in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship to become a dual citizen. She cited the current political climate as a reason for her move."When it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, thats when we will consider coming back," she said in a TikTok.In March, when a reporter asked the Irish prime minister during a visit to the White House why he would allow O'Donnell to move to Ireland, Trump jumped in and said he was better off not knowing who she was.TRUMP THREATENS TO STRIP ROSIE O'DONNELL'S U.S. CITIZENSHIP AS HE SAYS SHE'S A 'THREAT TO HUMANITY'"Do you know who she is? You're better off not knowing," Trump said at the time.Trump's feud with ODonnell has spanned nearly two decades, sparked by O'Donnell criticizing him on "The View" in 2006 about his decision to be lenient toward a Miss USA winner who had been accused of drug use and other controversies.In 2015, during a Republican primary debate, a moderator asked Trump about his past use of derogatory terms to describe women."Only Rosie O'Donnell," then-candidate Trump responded.Last month, after a Minneapolis Catholic school shooting that left two children dead and more than a dozen wounded, ODonnell posted a video purporting that the shooter was a MAGA supporter, a Republican and a white supremacist."What do you know? It was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person. What do you know? White supremacists," she said.ODonnell later took down the video and apologized."I knew a lot of you were very upset about the video I made before I went away for a few days," she said. "You are right. I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect."I assumed, like most shooters, they followed a standard MO and had standard, you know, feelings of you know, NRA-loving kind of gun people," ODonnell continued. "Anyway, the truth is I messed up, and when you mess up, you fess up. Im sorry. This is my apology video and I hope its enough."

A federal appeals court approved Illinois' ban on carrying firearms on public transit, reversing a lower court ruling that found the gun restrictions passed more than a decade ago violated the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals handed down its decision on Tuesday, with Judge Joshua Kolar writing for the majority that the ban "is comfortably situated in a centuries-old practice of limiting firearms in sensitive and crowded, confined places.""The Second Amendment protects an individuals right to self-defense. It does not bar the peoples representatives from enacting lawsconsistent with our nations historical tradition of regulationthat ensure public transportation systems remain free from accessible firearms," Kolar wrote.APPEALS COURT BLOCKS NEW MEXICO'S 7-DAY WAITING PERIOD FOR GUN PURCHASES, SAYING IT VIOLATES 2ND AMENDMENT"We are asked whether the state may temporarily disarm its citizens as they travel in crowded and confined metal tubes unlike anything the Founders envisioned," the judge continued. "We draw from the lessons of our nations historical regulatory traditions and find no Second Amendment violation in such a regulation."Last year, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois sided with four plaintiffs who claimed that restricting people from carrying guns on public buses and trains was unconstitutional.The district court relied on a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, in which a new standard to determine whether a gun restriction is unconstitutional was established. To meet that standard, the government must show there is a "historical tradition of firearm regulation" that supports the law. The court said there were no analogous conditions justifying the gun restrictions on public transit.But the appeals court found the ban was constitutionally protected."Our concern is whether the law aligns with the nations tradition," the majority opinion reads. "We hold that [the law] is constitutional because it comports with regulatory principles that originated in the Founding era and continue to the present."The case, started by several Illinois gun owners and backed by gun rights groups, is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.While plaintiffs argued that the transit restrictions flouted the high courts 2022 Bruen decision, the Seventh Circuit said the state had shown a sufficient historical basis for treating crowded public transport as a "sensitive place."The public transit firearm ban was implemented in 2013, when Illinois became the last state in the country to approve carrying concealed weapons in public.FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULES CALIFORNIA AMMUNITION BACKGROUND CHECKS UNCONSTITUTIONALOn top of prohibiting guns on buses and trains, the measure restricted gun possession in hospitals and some other public spaces.Kolar, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, was joined in the majority opinion by Judge Kenneth Ripple, who was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan. Judge Amy St. Eve, who was selected by President Donald Trump during his first term, wrote a separate concurring opinion."I write separately to highlight a difficult jurisdictional question that todays opinion prudently reserves for a future case: how to assess redressability where a plaintiff defines her injury as the inability to engage in protected activitynot the threat of prosecution for doing soand an unchallenged law also prohibits that precise activity," St. Eve wrote.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, FEMA faltered. The response was slow, political and disjointed. Mismanaged by someone without extensive emergency management experience, FEMA collapsed under the weight of its mission. Over 1,800 American lives were lost when the federal levees failed, and chaos ensued. Its taken us nearly two decades to recover, and some communities never did.As a country, we vowed never to let that happen again. As Bush administration Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend wrote in her Katrina after-action report at the time, "When local and State governments are overwhelmed or incapacitated by an event that has reached catastrophic proportions, only the Federal government has the resources and capabilities to respond. The Federal government must therefore plan, train, and equip to meet the requirements for responding to a catastrophic event."For over a decade, the country made substantial progress on strengthening federal, state and local coordination and capabilities. We reformed FEMA, required hiring leaders with emergency management experience, invested in more resilient infrastructure, put in place stronger building and hazard mitigation standards and funding which have a massive benefit, and invested in and coordinated better with state and local emergency preparedness.FEMA EMPLOYEES PLACED ON LEAVE AFTER CLAIMING TRUMP LEADERSHIP COULD SPARK NEXT HURRICANE KATRINABut in just eight months, the Trump administration is unraveling 20 years of hard-earned progress by gutting FEMA and hobbling the federal governments ability to predict, prepare for and then respond to disasters.Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has set his sights on dismantling the very agencies responsible for keeping Americans safe in times of disaster. He first proposed eliminating FEMA altogether. Elon Musks DOGE operations terminations and voluntary separations slashed FEMA staff by nearly one third. Of the people left, they recently reassigned dozens of FEMA employees to Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the height of hurricane season. Trump even fired the first appointed acting administrator for saying he thought FEMA should stick around, and the current acting administrator wont say whether FEMA will continue to exist.Trumps FEMA canceled a $3.6 billion program to build stronger infrastructure the kind of investment that helps communities improve drainage, elevate roads and homes, harden infrastructure like power lines and prepare for the future before disasters strike.DHS JUGGLES MASS DEPORTATION PUSH WITH HELENE RELIEF, ADDS $124M AFTER BIDEN BACKLASHIn an agency known at times for bureaucratic processes, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem began requiring her personal sign-off for every FEMA grant or contract over $100,000, which, in todays terms, is just about everything, causing delays that risked lives.This July, over 130 people lost their lives in Kerrville, Texas, after catastrophic floods swept through the Hill Country region. During those Texas floods, FEMA couldnt deploy Urban Search and Rescue teams in time because they didnt have clearance. Theres been no course correction.What would happen if a major hurricane were headed our way? Does anyone really think the current FEMA administration is ready as we enter the peak of hurricane season?CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONDespite outcries from state and local officials, emergency preparedness experts and the broader meteorological community, Trump is doubling down. At a recent FEMA review task force, Noem reiterated that "federal emergency management should be state and locally led" and that "this entire agency needs to be eliminated as it exists today and remade into a responsive agency."KENTUCKY GOVERNOR PRAISES FEMA UNDER TRUMP, SAYS ITS A 'CREDIT TO HIS ADMINISTRATION'It doesnt stop at FEMA alone. Trump has floated privatizing NOAA and the National Weather Service, turning life-saving public alerts into paid services. Meanwhile, weather forecasting capabilities are eroding. Entering hurricane season, 30 of the 122 forecast offices across the U.S. no longer had chief meteorologists.Gutting FEMA and hollowing out the agencies responsible for disaster preparedness saying "states can do it" is not a plan. Its federal abandonment, like a deadbeat dad. The scope and scale of responding to major disasters, in particular, requires the might financial, manpower and equipment of the federal government. Even where state and local governments can lead, our system is set up to require a strong federal partnership.As a state legislator, lieutenant governor, mayor and White House official, I've been part of both good and bad responses to disasters. If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: response and recovery can only be as strong as the preparation that comes before them. A good response requires clear command and control, communication, coordination, collaboration and cooperation, and most importantly, an active and rightly ordered federal government acting in partnership with state and local governments.Disasters will come, and storms are getting more intense more quickly. This we know. But how we prepare, how we respond, and how we help communities rebuild thats up to us. On August 29, we marked 20 years since Hurricane Katrina. We cannot let history repeat itself. Too much and too many lives are at stake.

President Donald Trumps America First trade agenda is working, and China is feeling the heat.While the legacy media has spent months lying about slow growth, Trumps tariff agenda is already reshaping how the U.S. competes with China and Americas industrial and agricultural sectors are benefiting as a result. New tariff protections are prompting the reshoring of critical production and strengthening the U.S. economy.The president has so far sent a clear message: the days of America propping up Beijings rise are over. Thanks to Trumps leadership, were finally winning again. U.S. manufacturing is rebounding, investment is flowing into strategic industries and American farmers are getting the protection they need from unfair Chinese competition and emerging bio-threats.TRUMP LEARNS A LESSON GROUNDED IN FAITH, HOW BEST TO STAND TOUGH ON TRADE WITH CHINAFor years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has targeted the foundations of our economy, hollowed out our manufacturing sector, cheated our farmers and manipulated global markets with impunity.Under the Biden administration, Washington operated on the belief that economic engagement with China would bring reform and stability. That bet never paid off. Instead, we've seen mass intellectual property theft, industrial manipulation, and an alarming pattern of biosecurity breaches that could seriously harm American agriculture and our food supply.U.S. federal prosecutors recently revealed that a fungus called "Fusarium graminearum" was illegally trafficked into the country by individuals connected to CCP-aligned research institutions. This fungus is a well-known biological agent that renders crops inedible, threatens livestock and causes reproductive damage to humans and livestock. This wasn't a minor violation or mistake; it was a coordinated effort to smuggle a dangerous agricultural pathogen onto U.S. soil to wreak havoc on our food supply chain and public health.TRUMP IS TAKING THE FIGHT TO THE CCP. IT'S LONG PAST TIME WE PROTECTED OUR BASES AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTUREThose involved included two Chinese nationals who were tied to American research institutions. The potential consequences of their actions were anything but small as American farms and food systems could have suffered widespread contamination, economic loss, and long-term damage.Unfortunately, this isnt an isolated episode. Just last year, five Chinese nationals were caught surveilling a U.S. military site in Michigan. Additionally, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that in recent years, numerous Chinese college-age individuals have been caught taking photos of vital defense sites in the U.S. Taken together, these incidents point to something bigger than isolated wrongdoing. They suggest an ongoing strategy aimed, originating in Beijing, at weakening key sectors of the American economy from the inside out.This is why America must protect our supply chain and produce our most crucial farm inputs here at home. In a recent poll by the Protecting America Initiative, 71% of Americans said they would like to see our farm inputs, like pesticides, produced domestically instead of relying on imports from China.So, what are we doing to combat this growing and very serious threat?BROOKE ROLLINS: FARM SECURITY IS NATIONAL SECURITYThankfully, we have a leader who is taking this challenge seriously. Trumps policies have reshaped how the United States deals with China and the results are starting to show.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONWith Trumps America First tariff agenda, the world is seeing that the U.S. is no longer afraid to defend its own interests.When Europe was flooding our markets and ripping off the U.S. with unfair trade deals, Trump didnt hesitate; he hit back with tariffs. For the first time in years, the EU stopped treating American markets like a dumping ground. They came to the table, and American industries got breathing room.Now, Trump is using that same proven strategy to take on the CCP. He is restoring balance to a relationship that for too long has tilted in Chinas favor.CHINESE BIOWEAPON SMUGGLING CASE SHOWS US 'TRAINS OUR ENEMIES,' 'LEARNED NOTHING' FROM COVID: SECURITY EXPERTChina, like the European Union before it, is learning that the days of taking advantage of the American economy are coming to an end. When these deals are finalized, both Beijing and Brussels will be operating on terms that respect U.S. workers, innovation and strength.Trumps bold tariff agenda isnt only a winning economic policy; its a national security imperative. It protects our farmers, revitalizes our factories and sends a message to the world that America will never be bullied or bought.The path to a stronger America runs through tough trade enforcement, and President Trump is the one who is leading us there.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM CHAD WOLF