President Trump revealed the contents of a letter Joe Biden left for him inside the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. According to Fox News, Trump found the letter with help from Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy. “We can exclusively report for the first time anywhere the contents of President Biden’s letter to President Trump,” Doocy wrote. The letter read: “Dear President Trump, As I take leave of this sacred office I wish you and your family all the best in the next four years. The American people – and people around the world – look to this house for steadiness in the inevitable storms of history, and my prayer is that in the coming years will be a time of prosperity, peace, and grace for our nation. May God bless you and guide you as He has blessed and guided our beloved country since our founding. Joe Biden 1-20-25″ We can exclusively report for the first time anywhere the contents of President Biden’s letter to President Trump Dear President Trump, As I take leave of this sacred office I wish you and your family all the best in the next four years.  The American people – and people… — Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) January 22, 2025 Fox News reports: On Monday, Trump found the letter – a white envelope addressed to “47″ – after Doocy asked if Biden left him a letter while he was signing a flurry of executive orders in the Oval Office in front of a gaggle of reporters. “He may have. Don’t they leave it in the desk? I don’t know,” Trump told Doocy before discovering the letter. “Thank you, Peter. It could have been years before we found this thing.” On Tuesday, Trump responded to further questions from Doocy about the contents of the letter. “It was a very nice letter,” Trump told reporters. “It was a little bit of an inspirational-type letter. Enjoy it, do a good job. Important, very important. How important the job is.” In his Oval Office letter, Biden wishes “prosperity, peace, and grace,” praying for God’s blessing to guide Trump and the nation. Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/0XBdQDP2Z2 — AF Post (@AFpost) January 22, 2025 WATCH: Peter Doocy asks whether Biden has left a letter for Trump. Trump opens his desk and goes “Oooooooooh!”. “Thank you, Peter! It could have been years before we found this.” pic.twitter.com/XC2LHSSNf2 — The Gas Stove (@TheGasStovee) January 21, 2025 Per USA TODAY: Former President Ronald Reagan started the tradition of presidents leaving private letters for their successors in 1989 with a message to then-incoming President George H.W. Bush. “George, I treasure the memories we share and wish you all the very best. You’ll be in my prayers,” Reagan wrote. Every outgoing president since has written a note to the incoming one. Former President Barack Obama wrote to Trump at the start of his first administration, telling him “we are just temporary occupants of this office. That makes us guardians of those democratic institutions and traditions − like rule of law, separation of powers, equal protection and civil liberties − that our forebears fought and bled for.” Trump’s letter to Biden after the former president defeated him in 2020 hasn’t been publicly released.

President Trump signed an executive order authorizing the Pentagon to deploy active duty U.S. troops to help secure the Southern Border. Approximately 1,500 troops will be deployed in the coming days. “No later than 10 days from the effective date of this order, deliver to the President a revision to the Unified Command Plan that assigns United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) the mission to seal the borders and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States by repelling forms of invasion including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities,” the executive order reads. BREAKING: The Pentagon is sending up to 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border after President Trump's order, officials say. https://t.co/IhIHRnCSPJ — The Associated Press (@AP) January 22, 2025 From the Associated Press: Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses was expected to sign the deployment orders on Wednesday, but it wasn’t yet clear which troops or units will go, and the total could fluctuate. It remains to be seen if they will end up doing law enforcement, which would put American troops in a dramatic new role, not done in recent history. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not yet been made. The active duty forces would join the roughly 2,500 U.S. National Guard and Reserve forces already there. There are currently no active duty troops working along the border. The troops are expected to be used to support border patrol agents, with logistics, transportation and construction of barriers. They have done similar duties in the past, when both Trump and former President Joe Biden sent active duty troops to the border. Pentagon sending additional 1,500 troops to southern border: US official https://t.co/ADBZQLU7mv — Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) January 22, 2025 “Threats against our Nation’s sovereignty continue today, and it is essential that the Armed Forces staunchly continue to participate in the defense of our territorial integrity and sovereignty.  A National Emergency currently exists along the southern border of the United States.  Unchecked unlawful mass migration and the unimpeded flow of opiates across our borders continue to endanger the safety and security of the American people and encourage further lawlessness,” the order read. “Accordingly, through this order, I am acting in accordance with my solemn duty to protect and defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the United States along our national borders,” it added. WATCH: JUST IN – Trump Orders Deployment of 1,500 Troops to Southern Border | President Trump has directed the Pentagon to send an additional 1,500 active-duty troops to bolster security at the U.S. southern border by month's end. This deployment will join the 2,500 active-duty forces… pic.twitter.com/OYFvDBjllQ — Overton (@overton_news) January 22, 2025 The Hill reports: The Pentagon said in a statement that it was “fully committed to carrying out the orders from our Commander-In-Chief, and is doing so immediately under his leadership.” Trump is requesting a revised mission plan from NORTHCOM within 10 days and that his secretary of Defense receive a level 3 planning requirement, or a detailed plan, within 30 days. And he has ordered a steady planning requirement to maintain border operations. The executive order does not establish how many or which types of troops would be deployed, whether active-duty, reserve or National Guard. Trump had pledged on the campaign trail to deploy active-duty troops. Trump deployed active-duty troops to the border in his first term, and the previous Biden administration did as well, but both were in response to specific instances. Read the full executive order HERE.

WASHINGTON — Top Republican lawmakers are calling for U.S. security agencies to quickly change course under President Donald Trump to better confront threats from terror groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaida. The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday issued an update threat assessment, highlighting the New Year’s Day truck ramming attack in New Orleans, which killed 14 people, as well as the June 2024 arrest of eight Tajik nationals with suspected Islamic State ties. “Make no mistake — all of the lights are still blinking red,” said committee chair Republican Representative Mark Green in a statement. “The New Orleans terrorist attack was a stark reminder that the terror threat to America is alive and persistent,” said Green. “Foreign terrorist organizations and jihadist networks abroad remain committed to recruiting and radicalizing individuals on U.S. soil.” Green’s comments harken back to a 2023 warning from then-FBI Director Christopher Wray, made in the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel, which officials said seemed to inspire terror groups around the world. "I've never seen a time where all the threats, or so many of the threats, are all elevated, all at exactly the same time,” Wray said at the time. Last year, Wray warned the FBI was increasingly concerned about a coordinated terror attack on the U.S. like the March 2024 Islamic State terror attacks on a Moscow concert hall. The Department of Homeland Security's 2025 annual threat assessment, issued this past October, warned, "The terrorism threat environment in the United States over the next year will remain high.” And it attributed the biggest danger to individuals who are not necessarily affiliated with established terror groups. "The threat will continue to be characterized primarily by lone offenders or small cells motivated to violence by a combination of racial, religious, gender, or anti-government grievances; conspiracy theories; and personalized factors," it said. Green on Wednesday blamed the increased threat on the administration of former President Joe Biden, saying terror groups have been “emboldened by the national security blunders of the past four years.” The committee’s “Terror Threat Snapshot” cited more than 50 terrorism cases in 30 U.S. states since April 2021 and 187 terrorism arrests, attacks and plots in Western Europe since the start of 2023. Democrats expressed some disappointment, arguing the comments have not been backed up by the committee’s actions to date. “It’s a bit confusing,” according to one staffer, who spoke to VOA on the condition of anonymity in order to respond to the chair’s comments. “Why haven’t they had substantive hearings on foreign terrorism and homegrown violent extremism?” Meanwhile, a new report Wednesday by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies cautioned that while there is reason to be concerned about the exploits and ambitions of groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaida, the threat inside the United States does not appear to be growing. "Longer-term trends suggest that jihadist terrorism in the United States is not resurgent," according to the report. "Groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaida have filled more of an inspirational role rather than directly orchestrating attacks on the United States," it said. "The average lethality of jihadist terrorist attacks has also fallen since the peak of the [Islamic State] caliphate." The CSIS report found there were a yearly average of 38 recorded attacks or plots in the U.S. from 2020 to 2023, but only 21 recorded plots or attacks during the first 11 months of 2024.

This week, Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams expressed that his party left him and “left working-class people” during an interview with former Fox News host-turned-independent conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson.