Canada responds to Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs as other leaders weigh impact

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday evening vowed to “fight” the new round of tariffs announced by President Donald Trump, and said he would turn to other international partners to get through the rocky times ahead. 

“President Trump has just announced a series of measures that are going to fundamentally change the international trading system,” Carney told reporters following Trump’s Rose Garden announcement. “We’re in a situation where there’s going to be an impact on the U.S. economy, which will build with time.

“In our judgment, it will be negative on the U.S. economy that will have an impact on us,” he added, noting millions of Canadians will be impacted.

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While Trump did not issue any additional tariffs against Canada following the 25% tariffs already in place on all Canadian imports, the 10% tariff on its energy exports and the blanket tariff on all aluminum and steel, he did announce a 25% tariff on all foreign vehicle imports. 

He also pointed out that Trump said there could be future targeted tariffs against pharmaceutical companies, lumber and semiconductors — tariffs that will have wide affect on U.S. trading partners beyond Canada and Mexico, but across Europe and Asia.

“In a crisis, it’s important to come together,” Carney said. “It’s essential to act with purpose and with force, and that’s what we will do.”

Before the tariff announcement, Canadian Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said at an election campaign event on Wednesday that he supports “targeted, reciprocal” tariffs on American goods — and if his party wins the general election on April 28 and he becomes prime minister, he would like to sit down with President Donald Trump and create a new trade deal, replacing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which the president signed in 2020.
 

Poilievre also said that Canada must maintain control of its border and freshwater and protect both its automotive industry and supply-managed farm sectors.

David Adams, president and CEO of Global Automakers of Canada — a national trade association representing the Canadian interests of 16 automakers, including BMW Canada, Inc. and Nissan Canada Inc. — said in a statement, “Tariffs are taxes that hurt consumers by increasing costs, driving up inflation, and unfairly impacting workers on both sides of the border.”

“Governments should look to long-term solutions to remove these tariffs, prioritizing the elimination of regulatory barriers to industry competitiveness and providing automakers with flexibilities to respond in these uncertain times.”

Reactions from European Union leaders began to emerge following Trump’s announcement that he will hit the EU with 20% tariffs on all imported goods, with disappointment, concern and commitments to continue negotiations with the U.S.

CANADA STARES DOWN CONSEQUENCES OF TRUMP TARIFF WAR: JOB LOSSES, GROCERY PRICE HIKES, POSSIBLE RECESSION

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, generally seen as a Trump ally, said Trump’s tariffs were “wrong” and warned they would not only harm American and European pocketbooks, but aid Western adversaries.

“We will do everything we can to work towards an agreement with the United States, with the goal of avoiding a trade war that would inevitably weaken the West in favor of other global players,” Meloni said in a statement on Facebook.

“In any case, as always, we will act in the interest of Italy and its economy, also engaging with other European partners,” she added.

Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister, Simon Harris, said he “deeply regret[s]” the new tariffs but said he is committed to working with Washington to end this tariff war. 

“I must be honest tonight that a 20% blanket tariff on goods from all EU countries could have a significant effect on Irish investment and the wider economy,” he said, noting the effects would “likely be felt for some time.”

Chairman of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee Bernd Lange called for a united response from countries targeted by Trump.

“While President Trump might call today ‘Liberation Day,’ from an ordinary citizen’s point of view this is ‘Inflation Day,’ he said, reported Reuters. “Because of this decision, U.S. consumers will be forced to carry the heaviest burden in a trade war.”

Lange said the EU will respond through “legal, legitimate, proportionate and decisive” measures.

Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter said her government would work to figure out the next steps.  

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The U.K., along with the president of Mexico ahead of the announcement, said they would continue to work with the U.S. and would not rush to enforce reciprocal tariffs.

Similarly, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that while Trump’s decision was “not the act of a friend,” his country would not impose reciprocal tariffs, reported Reuters. 

He reportedly condemned the U.S. tariffs as totally unwarranted and said Australia will continue to negotiate to have the tariffs lifted. 

Top Biden aide paints picture of how former president acted before Trump debate

Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain revealed that former President Joe Biden was “fatigued, befuddled and disengaged” before his debate with President Donald Trump in June, according to a new book.

“At his first meeting with Biden in Aspen Lodge, the president’s cabin,”  author Chris Whipple wrote, Klain “was startled. He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool,” according to an excerpt published by The Guardian.

Whipple’s new book, titled “Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History,” is set to be released this month. Klain, a close ally and major supporter of the former president, served as his chief of staff from 2021 until 2023 and helped Biden prepare for his June debate against Trump. 

“The president was fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged,” Whipple wrote, according to the excerpt. “Klain feared the debate with Trump would be a nationally televised disaster.”

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The debate preparation team then organized two mock debates for Biden. 

“The first was scheduled to last 90 minutes but Klain called it off after 45. The president’s voice was shot and so was his grasp of the subject. All he really could talk about was his infrastructure plan and how he was rebuilding America and 16 million jobs. He had nothing to say about his agenda for a second term,” Whipple wrote. 

Klain, according to Whipple, said the president was irritable as he pushed back on the former chief of staff’s suggestions. 

“25 minutes into the second mock debate, the president was done for the day. ‘I’m just too tired to continue and I’m afraid of losing my voice here and I feel bad,’” Klain said, according to the excerpt. “‘I just need some sleep. I’ll be fine tomorrow.’ He went off to bed.”

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Whipple said in an interview with Politico about his book that many of Biden’s closest aides were in a “fog of delusion” about the former president, and calling it a “cover-up” did not go far enough. 

“I have fresh reporting on an hour-by-hour, day-by-day basis of Biden’s final days, and obviously his decline is a major part of the story,” Whipple told Politico on Sunday. “I happen to think that to call it a ‘cover-up’ is simplistic. I think it was stranger and way more troubling than that. Biden’s inner circle, his closest advisers, many of them were in a fog of delusion and denial. They believed what they wanted to believe.”

Biden’s team did not immediately return a request for comment.

Whipple’s book is one of several coming out this year about the 2024 campaign, one of the most chaotic and unpredictable election seasons in recent history. 

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The Hill’s Amie Parnes and NBC News’ Jonathan Allen also have a book about the campaign and what led up to the former president dropping out of the race. 

According to Allen, former President Barack Obama did not want former Vice President Kamala Harris to replace Biden on the ticket and worked against her efforts behind the scenes. 

CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson are also releasing a book, titled “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” in May. 

Trump admin acts after blue state refuses to comply with executive order

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday a pause and an ongoing review of federal funding to Maine after the state refused to provide equal opportunities to women and girls in educational programs. 

The state has refused to comply with President Donald Trump’s February executive order to ban trans athletes from girls and women’s sports, prompting immense federal pressure. Trump initially vowed to cut federal funding to the state if it refused to comply with the order during a Feb. 20 speech. 

Now, Trump has made good on that promise.

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USDA secretary Brooks Rollins said the state must agree to protect female athletes from trans inclusion before funding is restored. 

“In order to continue to receive taxpayer dollars from USDA, the state of Maine must demonstrate compliance with Title IX which protects female student athletes from having to compete with or against or having to appear unclothed before males,” Rollins wrote in a letter to the state. 

“In addition, USDA has launched a full review of grants awarded by the Biden Administration to the Maine Department of Education. Many of these grants appear to be wasteful, redundant, or otherwise against the priorities of the Trump Administration. USDA will not stand for the Biden Administration’s bloated bureaucracy and will instead focus on a Department that is farmer-first and without a leftist social agenda.”

Maine GOP state Rep. Laurel Libby was one of the key figures in bringing attention to the state’s trans inclusion issue, when she made a social media post identifying a transgender track and field athlete at Greely High School had taken first place at a Maine girls pole vault competition after competing as a boy just one year earlier.

Libby’s revelation of the trans athlete ignited national conversation and coverage of the state’s policy on trans inclusion. Libby was censured by the Maine House Democrat majority for her post on the premise that she identified a minor, but she has since filed a lawsuit to have the censure lifted. 

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“Governor Janet Mills and Maine Democrats have chosen to dig their heels in and embrace radical left-wing ideology over the safety and rights of Maine women and girls. Despite repeated warnings from President Trump, Maine Democrats continued to defy federal law, forcing Maine girls to unfairly compete against biological males,” Libby told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. 

“As a result, Maine’s Democrat majority has poised Maine students to lose hundreds of millions in federal funding, starting with our USDA funding, instead of championing Maine girls by adhering to federal law. I continue to stand firmly with Maine girls and President Trump in the pursuit of sanity and fairness. I implore Maine Democrats to abandon this incredibly harmful and radical gender ideology for the sake of our students.”

More potential sanctions could be coming to the state in the next week. 

The U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) on Monday advising a final deadline of April 11 to address the issue or risk a second referral to the Department of Justice. The Department of Health and Human Services already referred Maine to the DOJ last week. 

Wednesday’s announcement is not the first funding freeze USDA announced regarding Maine. 

The department paused funding to the University of Maine System (UMS), a network of eight public universities in the state, on March 11 while it conducted a review of the system’s compliance with Title IX. 

Funding was restored to UMS just days later and the USDA announced the system was in full compliance. 

But the major issue involving trans athlete inclusion in Maine is at the high school level. In addition to the incident involving the pole vaulter at Greely High School, other instances have impacted multiple girls across the state who have had to compete with and share locker rooms with biological males. 

Maine teen Cassidy Carlisle previously told Fox News Digital about how she had to share a locker room with a trans student while in middle school, then had to compete with another trans athlete in Nordic skiing last year. 

“The defeat that comes with that in that moment is heartbreaking,” Carlisle said. “I’m just in shock in a way. I didn’t believe it. … I didn’t think it was happening to me.”

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“I stayed silent for a while,” Carlisle said. “It’s very hard to speak up if you don’t have a platform to do it on. … Backlash is a huge thing. I’m a high school student. No high school student wants to be hurt or yelled at or said mean comments by people. And the reality of it, with the state that I live in, that could very much happen.” 

A survey by the American Parents Coalition found that out of about 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed it’s “only fair to restrict women’s sports to biological women.”

The poll also found that 60% of residents would support a ballot measure limiting participation in women’s and girls sports to biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents with kids under age 18.

Monstrous tornado rips across state as America’s heartland endures ‘dangerous situation’

Fast Facts:

• Rare Level 5 out of 5 ‘high risk’ of severe weather issued covering several states.
• ‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ Tornado Watch issued along Mississippi River Valley.
• Massive tornado spotted in Arkansas by FOX Weather exclusive storm trackers.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A tornado outbreak is unfolding Wednesday for parts of the lower Mississippi Valley into the mid-South and lower Ohio Valley, including the threat of multiple long-track EF-3 or stronger tornadoes.

NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) upgraded portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi to a rare Level 5 out of 5 “high risk” of severe weather.

A massive tornado was spotted by FOX Weather Storm Tracker Brandon Copic as it roared near Lake City, Arkansas. Authorities issued a Tornado Emergency – the most dire of tornado alerts – for towns in the path of the storm, such as Leachville and Monette. Copic urged people in the warning area to get to safety.

“You need to be underground,” Copic said. “You will not survive this tornado if you are above ground.”

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In Potosi, Missouri, firefighters reported responding to at least one residence that was impacted by a tornado on Wednesday afternoon.  Local authorities were still in damage assessment mode late on Wednesday, responding to calls for assistance.

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Earlier Wednesday, the fire department in Nevada, Missouri, confirmed to FOX Weather that a suspected tornado hit the city on Wednesday morning. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Video from residents showed buildings badly damaged, with roofs ripped off and debris littering local streets.

Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Mike McClure told FOX Weather power lines were brought down inside the city of Nevada, and several businesses were damaged, including a hotel. 

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency on Wednesday ahead of storms arriving in the Bluegrass State, but damage was already reported west of the Mississippi River on Wednesday.

‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ Tornado Watch issued for several states

The SPC has even issued a ‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ Tornado Watch for several states that make up the Mississippi River Valley from Arkansas to southern Indiana.

Additional watch boxes have been issued from outside of Chicago to East Texas, which include nearly 15 million residents.

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The high risk designation marks only the second time this year, and the first instance of two such high-risk alerts in a single year since 2021, that a Level 5 threat has been issued. The previous Level 5 alert was issued on March 15 when the National Weather Service confirmed 13 tornadoes, including six powerful EF-3s, which tragically resulted in seven deaths and 12 injuries.

Severe storms persist through the weekend

Even as the main storm system begins to pull away on Thursday, daytime heating on Thursday afternoon will lead to another round of severe storms.

Damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes will again be possible during the afternoon and evening hours on Thursday. A Level 3 out of 5 risk encompasses a zone from east Texas, including Texarkana, to Tennessee, including Memphis. Meanwhile, a wider area faces a Level 2 out of 5 risk from central Texas to the Northeast. 

More severe weather is forecast through the end of the week and into the weekend, as well. 

The numerous rounds of rain and storms will lead to the aforementioned potentially generational flooding in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys.

Women’s fencer who refused to face trans athlete talks punishment, backlash

Women’s fencer Stephanie Turner took her mask off and got a knee in front of her transgender opponent.

Ahead of a bout at the Cherry Blossom Open in Maryland over the weekend, Turner, 31, made the decision not to compete against trans athlete Redmond Sullivan. And Turner also wanted to make sure her refusal was caught on video for the world to see. 

Turner came to the decision the night before the event when she checked the competition pools and saw that she would be competing against Sullivan, whom she had read about in an article last year. 

“I saw that I was going to be in a pool with Redmond, and from there I said, ‘OK, let’s do it. I’m going to take the knee,'” Turner told Fox News Digital.

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Turner went through all her warm-ups that day and went on to fence in four bouts before her matchup with the trans athlete. When it came, she was “nervous and shaky,” but was sure about her decision. 

“I knew what I had to do because USA Fencing had not been listening to women’s objections regarding [its gender eligibility policy],” Turner said. 

“I took a knee immediately at that point. Redmond was under the impression that I was going to start fencing. So when I took the knee, I looked at the ref and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I cannot do this. I am a woman, and this is a man, and this is a women’s tournament. And I will not fence this individual.’

“Redmond didn’t hear me, and he comes up to me, and he thinks that I may be hurt, or he doesn’t understand what’s happening. He asks, ‘Are you OK?’ And I said, ‘I’m sorry. I have much love and respect for you, but I will not fence you.”

And right after that, Turner’s punishment by USA Fencing commenced.

“Redmond says to me, ‘Well you know, there is a member on the board of directors here who supports me, and there is a policy that acknowledges me as a woman, so I am allowed to fence, and you will get blackcarded,’ and I said, ‘I know,” Turner said. 

Minutes later, the referees dealt Turner a black card, which represents the most severe penalty, leading to expulsion from the tournament or event for serious rule infractions or unsportsmanlike behavior.

Turner said she was then escorted to the bout committee where she had to explain what she did. She says the members then handed her a copy of the association’s transgender policy and made her sign a document acknowledging the black card. Turner said she signed the document under objection. 

Then, Turner was escorted out of the venue, she said.

USA Fencing provided a statement to Fox News Digital addressing the incident. 

“USA Fencing enacted our current transgender and non-binary athlete policy in 2023. The policy was designed to expand access to the sport of fencing and create inclusive, safe spaces. The policy is based on the principle that everyone should have the ability to participate in sports and was based upon the research available of the day,” the statement read.

“We respect the viewpoints on all sides and encourage our members to continue sharing them with us as the matter evolves. It’s important for the fencing community to engage in this dialogue, but we expect this conversation to be conducted respectfully, whether at our tournaments or in online spaces. The way to progress is by respectful discussion based in evidence.” 

A USA Fencing spokesperson also told Fox News Digital that Turner was not penalized for her stance against trans inclusion, but simply for refusing to fence. 

“In the case of Stephanie Turner, her disqualification was not related to any personal statement but was merely the direct result of her decision to decline to fence an eligible opponent, which the FIE rules clearly prohibit,” the spokesperson said.

“According to the FIE (International Fencing Federation) Technical Rules, specifically Article t.113, a fencer is not permitted to refuse to fence another properly entered fencer for any reason. Under these rules, such a refusal results in disqualification and the corresponding sanctions. This policy exists to maintain fair competition standards and preserve the sport’s integrity.” 

Turner said she has not heard anything back from the organization since the incident. 

It was an incident she had actively tried to avoid at prior events. Turner said she previously refused to enter multiple past fencing events that included other transgender fencers that she knew about. It’s an issue that she made an effort to stay on top of for her own awareness and safety.

“In previous years when I had known about transgender fencers being present, I just wouldn’t register, but for this one, Redmond must have signed up after me,” Turner said. 

“I was like, ‘You know what, I’m just going to give it to God. If this person shows up to my event and is on my script, then I would take a knee, and that would be God’s will.'”

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It was not a decision she came to lightly, however. 

Turner paid close attention to the “protect women’s sports” movement that has emerged in recent years, and the backlash and harassment faced by the women who took part in it. She recalled the story of Riley Gaines being held hostage and assaulted at San Francisco State University in April 2023. 

The idea of the backlash haunted Turner, but wasn’t enough to stop her from taking the knee.

“It will probably, at least for a moment, destroy my life. I don’t think that it’s going to be easy for me from now on going to fencing tournaments. I don’t think it’s going to be easy for me at practice,” Turner said. “It’s very hard for me to do this.” 

For Turner, one of the sacrifices she is most concerned about is impeding the friendships she has with people in the LGBT community, who she said don’t currently know about her stance on the issue. 

As a lifelong Democrat, Turner insists she never opposed LGBTQ people. But the issue of trans inclusion of women’s sports has driven her away from supporting the party, and she now identifies as a “new Republican conservative.”

“I voted red down the ticket this year,” Turner said. “It was like waking up to the lies of the mainstream media… Just to watch so many of my friends have this glassy-eyed look while just defending this policy because their brains can not manage the possibility that their party or their position has been wrong on this, and perhaps this isn’t a civil rights movement, and they have been misled.”

Turner added that she fully supports President Donald Trump cutting funding to states that allow trans athletes to compete in women’s and girls sports. 

“Something needs to be done, and there are activists who have embedded themselves in authoritative positions in sports bodies.”

Probe into mysterious death of former Yankees player’s son triggers warning from experts

Experts are speaking out about the potential dangers attached to carbon monoxide, as authorities continue to probe the death of teen Miller Gardner, son of former New York Yankees player Brett Gardner.

While the cause of Miller Gardner’s death remains unconfirmed, Costa Rican Judicial Investigative Agency (OIJ) General Director Randall Zúñiga told reporters at a press conference on Monday that high levels of carbon monoxide contamination were found in the Gardner family’s hotel room, and that it might have caused the teen’s death.

“Which then leads us towards a line of investigation in which it seems that this person could have died from inhaling these very dangerous gases,” Zúñiga said.

Zúñiga said investigators who work on a specialized dangerous atmospheres team detected “high emissions of pollution of…carbon monoxide” in the room at Costa Rica’s Arenas Del Mar Beachfront & Rainforest Resort, which is where the Gardners were staying.

 Officials at the hotel are denying the carbon monoxide claims.

DEATH OF EX-YANKEE’S SON IN COSTA RICA HAS EXPERTS SOUNDING ALARM ON HEALTHY TRAVEL

“The levels in the hotel room were non-existent and non-lethal. There was an error in this initial reporting. As mentioned, we await for conclusive results to confirm the cause of this unfortunate death,” a hotel spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

The spokesperson also said the room has been “closed off out of an abundance of precaution.”

Dr. Nicole Saphier, a Fox News medical contributor, said no parent should ever have to endure the tragedy of losing a child.

In regard to carbon monoxide, she said the gas is “a silent, deadly threat.”

“We often focus on smoke alarms, but carbon monoxide is colorless, odorless and can overcome a person before they even realize what’s happening,” Saphier told Fox News Digital.

Saphier said every household should have multiple functioning carbon monoxide detectors, especially near sleeping areas.

“When we travel — whether staying at a hotel, Airbnb, or even in an RV — it’s worth considering bringing a portable carbon monoxide monitor for added protection,” she suggested.

Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and a Fox News senior medical analyst, said, “symptoms can come on rapidly within minutes or hours and can include headache, nausea, fatigue, dizziness and vomiting.”

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Siegel said prompt treatment with oxygen can sometimes reverse carbon monoxide poisoning.

“It is absolutely shocking to me that it took this long to be disclosed as a likely cause of death, when they could have done a test for carbon monoxide in [Miller Gardener’s] blood within hours during his autopsy weeks ago,” Siegel told Fox News Digital.

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Between 2009 and 2019, deaths from non-fire-related carbon monoxide poisoning were on the rise, according to a report released by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in March 2023.

Fox News Digital reached out to OIJ in Costa Rica for additional comment.

Trump’s transportation boss takes on Dem gov over commuting terror

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday slammed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), accusing both of discounting safety risks in New York City subways.

“The @MTA & @GovKathyHochul continue to say NYC subways are perfectly safe. Meanwhile, criminals continue to terrorize innocent New Yorkers,” Duffy wrote in a post on X over a news story detailing recent violence on the NYC subway. “We’re fighting to make commuting safe again.”

In December, a 57-year-old woman was allegedly burned alive by an illegal migrant from Guatamala in a horrific subway attack. 

Less than a month later, on New Year’s Eve, a New York City man was charged with attempted murder after allegedly shoving a 45-year-old man onto the subway tracks.

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In 2024, subway felony assaults increased and homicides doubled to 10, Fox News Digital previously reported.

However, overall, subway crime was down by 5.4%, according to the NYPD.

Duffy in March sent a letter to the MTA noting New York City’s transit authority must reduce crime, or it would face federal funding cuts.

“The trend of violent crime, homelessness, and other threats to public safety on one of our nation’s most prominent metro systems is unacceptable,” Duffy wrote in the letter. “After years of soft-on-crime policies, our Department is stepping in to restore order.”

The letter requested a copy of MTA’s data on fare evasion, worker assaults, customer assaults and police patrols, Fox News Digital previously reported.

NYPD INVESTIGATES AFTER HOMELESS MAN CATCHES FIRE IN MANHATTAN SUBWAY STATION

It also requested an explanation of how MTA, which is given billions of dollars from the federal government, has used taxpayer funding to address safety and security concerns.

“Commuters are sick and tired of feeling like they have to jeopardize their safety to get to work, go to school, or to travel around the city,” Duffy wrote in the letter. “We will continue to fight to ensure their federal tax dollars are going towards a crime-free commute.”

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The DOT, MTA and Hochul’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Legendary rocker’s daughter, reality star reveals stage 4 cancer spread with new tumors

Teddi Mellencamp’s doctors recently found four more tumors in her brain, one month after the reality star was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer.

The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star told US Weekly she’s in the fight of her life after the cancer spread in her brain and to her lungs.

Mellencamp, 43, isn’t sure what the future holds, but she’s remaining positive for her family, friends and herself.

‘REAL HOUSEWIVES’ STAR TEDDI MELLENCAMP’S CANCER HAS SPREAD TO HER LUNGS

“I’m fighting for my life,” Mellencamp told the outlet. “But also for my family’s life and all the people I love.”

In February, after medication became ineffective for her migraines and Mellencamp began feeling severe pain, she rushed to an emergency room with her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave. 

‘REAL HOUSEWIVES’ STAR TEDDI MELLENCAMP HOSPITALIZED WITH MULTIPLE TUMORS ON HER BRAIN

“The pain had become something I’d never felt before,” she said. “They diagnosed me with multiple brain tumors, but the [ER doctor] says he can’t take them out; they’ve got to get me into Cedars-Sinai [hospital]. 

“And I’m like, ‘Can’t you get me in tonight? I want to go tonight.’ I had six brain tumors and two lung tumors; they all came from melanoma that metastasized into these tumors inside of my body.”

Her “RHOBH” co-star, Kyle Richards, made a few phone calls to get her into a hospital immediately. 

“Kyle saved the day,” Mellencamp said. “I believe it was within 24 hours that an incredible surgeon was able to remove four tumors from my brain. I didn’t know they had been there for six months to a year, and we had no idea.”

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Mellencamp began radiation and immunotherapy treatment immediately after her surgery, which took a toll on her body.  

“I thought I was going to feel like how I felt after my neck lift,” she said. “My reaction is always a headache, and I found out that’s good news because it means that the immunotherapy or the radiation is killing your cancer.”

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Mellencamp said in her Instagram story Wednesday after undergoing both radiation and immunotherapy the day before that she feels “so tired and run down, but I know it’s going to get better again.” 

“Something that everyone can keep in mind … I kind of thought that I’d already beaten it, and then, a couple days later, I found out I had four more tumors. So, there are so many different highs and lows, and yeah, but I’ve learned a lot.”

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She said her famous father, musician John Mellencamp, calls to check in on her every day. 

“Some days, I’m not in the mood. I don’t want a pep talk,” Teddi said. “[I tell him], ‘I’ll talk to you tomorrow. I’ll be more pep talk-ready, but I love you.’”

He’s also given some life advice to his daughter as a survivor of a heart attack when he was 36 years old. 

“I remember his life completely changing,” Teddi said. “And some of the moments [when] I felt really scared, I was like, ‘Hold on. I’m not changing everything about my life. I want more things. I want to keep building.’ 

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“But he’s like, ‘There are moments where you emotionally won’t be able to control how you’re feeling because of a certain medication or a certain whatever. And you have to give yourself some grace and know this isn’t you sometimes. And that’s OK.’”