Allegations that the Chinese Communist Party manufactured fake driver’s licenses and shipped them to the U.S. in a scheme to influence the 2020 presidential election in favor of Joe Biden are being investigated by the Senate Judiciary Committee after the FBI revealed its own probe into the potential bombshell Monday night.

FBI Director Kash Patel located and declassified the document at the request of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley in late May and transmitted it to the committee Monday evening.

Grassley, R-Iowa, is demanding further information about the document, which alleges the plot sought to deliver fake driver’s licenses to Chinese sympathizers in the U.S. who would cast a vote for candidate Biden. The document does not say whether any ballots were cast as part of the scheme.

‘Chairman Grassley is in receipt of an FBI document (response) to a request he made based on legally protected whistleblower disclosures,’ a Grassley spokesperson told Fox News Digital. ‘The document alleges serious national security concerns that need to be fully investigated by the FBI.’ 

Fox News Digital has reviewed the declassified document, which includes a ‘warning’ section, stating it ‘is an information report, not finally evaluated intelligence.’

‘It is being shared for informational purposes but has not been fully evaluated, integrated with other information, interpreted or analyzed,’ the document states.

‘Receiving agencies are requested not to take action based on this raw reporting without prior coordination with the FBI,’ the document states. ‘Unless a conviction in a criminal proceeding occurs, a presumption of innocence exists for any person being reported in this IIR.’ 

The subject states, ‘[REDACTED] Chinese Government Production and Export of Fraudulent US Drivers Licenses to Chinese Sympathizers in the United States, in Order to Create Tens of Thousands of Fraudulent Mail-In Votes for US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, in late August 2020.’ 

The ‘source’ of the document is ‘a collaborative source with indirect access, none of whose reporting has been corroborated for less than one year.’ 

The ‘context’ states that ‘the source obtained the information from an identified sub-source, who claimed they obtained the information from unidentified PRC government officials.’ 

The document states that ‘in late August 2020, the Chinese government had produced a large amount of fraudulent United States drivers licenses that were secretly exported to the United States.

‘The fraudulent drivers licenses would allow tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for US Presidential Candidate USPER Joe ((Biden)), despite not being eligible to vote in the United States.

‘China had collected private US user data from millions of TikTok accounts, to include name, ID and address, which would allow the Chinese government to use real US persons’ information to create the fraudulent drivers license,’ the document states. 

‘The fraudulent drivers licenses were to include true ID number and true address of US citizens, making them difficult to detect,’ the document adds. ‘China planned to use the fraudulent drivers licenses to account for tens of thousands of mail-in votes.’ 

FBI notations on the document, however, show the bureau had some questions. 

In one spot, the agency wrote that ‘a persons address information was not a valid field when creating a TikTok account. It was unspecified how China would attain US address data from the application.’ 

Another FBI comment on the document states, ‘[REDACTED] Source is available for re-contact.’ 

The next page of the document states, ‘SUBSTANTIVE RECALL’ of the information, which took place Sept. 25, 2020 — just a day after then-FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress that the FBI had not seen any coordinated voter fraud ahead of the 2020 election. 

The ‘context’ section of the document states, ‘[REDACTED] The source obtained the information from an identified sub-source, who claimed they obtained the information from unidentified PRC government officials.’ 

The ‘warning’ section of the document repeats the first warning that the allegations are part of ‘an information report, not finally evaluated intelligence.’ 

The document stated the ‘report was recalled in order to re-interview the source.’ It also states that ‘recipients should destroy all copies of the original report and remove the original report from all computer holdings.’ 

‘Recipients should also ensure that any citation of the information in finished intelligence products draws on the SUBSTANTIVE RECALL of this report rather than the previous version.’ 

More information is being requested from the FBI as part of the Senate’s investigation.

‘Grassley is requesting additional documentation from the FBI to verify the production and is urging the FBI to do its due diligence to investigate why the document was recalled, who recalled it and inform the American people of its findings,’ a Grassley spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

The remainder of the document is heavily redacted. 

‘Thanks to the oversight work and partnership of Chairman Grassley, the FBI continues to provide unprecedented transparency at the people’s Bureau,’ Patel said upon declassifying the document and transmitting it to Grassley. ‘To that end, we have located documents Chairman Grassley requested, which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election. 

‘Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver’s licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots — allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.’ 

Patel added, ‘In accordance with Chairman Grassley’s request for documents, I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the Chairman for further review.’

But Grassley is seeking more information specifically related to the FBI’s decision under the leadership of former Director Wray to recall the document to ‘re-interview the source,’ and ‘destroy all copies of the original report and remove the original report from all computing holdings.’ 

Grassley is demanding Patel turn over all records relating to the follow-up interview, including all communications between and among agents and intelligence analysts. 

‘In addition, please describe all investigative steps the FBI has taken, or will take, to determine the veracity of the allegations in the IIR as well as who recalled the IIR and the basis for the recall, if that basis extends beyond the request for the source to be re-interviewed,’ Grassley wrote in a letter Tuesday to Patel. 

‘Lastly, explain why the FBI under your predecessor required the original IIR to be destroyed, whether this practice is consistent with the FBI’s past and current practice, and how it comports with federal record preservation requirements.’ 

The FBI reporting document came just a month after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the International Mail Facility at Chicago O’Hare International Airport seized nearly 20,000 fraudulent driver’s licenses. 

From January 2020 through June 30, 2020, CBP officers at that location reported seizing 1,513 shipments of fraudulent documents that included a total of 19,888 counterfeit US driver’s licenses. 

‘The majority of these shipments were arriving from China and Hong Kong,’ CBP posted in a July press release.

It was not immediately clear if the seizure had any relation to the document’s allegations.

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.’