Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY) tried to walk back the claims that Biden took a bribe by saying on Fox News that Republicans never claimed that Biden directly took payments. Video: Langworthy: Well, we have never claimed we have direct money going to the president… Reporter: You said we never claimed …
Read More »Biden Admin Fights to Remove Ukraine Spending Oversight from Defense Bill
The proposed annual defense bill has all sorts of controversial nuggets in it, from requiring the Pentagon to cease paying for transgender medical care for soldiers to the expulsion of all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives throughout the DOD. But the one morsel that has caught my attention has largely …
Read More »A Big Question for the Fed: What Went Wrong With Bank Oversight?
WASHINGTON — Jerome H. Powell is likely to face more than the typical questions about the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision on Wednesday. The central bank chair will almost certainly be grilled about how and why his institution failed to stop problems at Silicon Valley Bank before it was …
Read More »House Oversight Committee Opens Investigation Into DOD 5th Consecutive Failed Audit
After the Department of Defense (DOD) failed its fifth consecutive audit in November, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) are looking into the DOD’s failure to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse. The Republican …
Read More »AOC Loses it During House Oversight Hearing, Calls Hunter Biden’s Laptop ‘Half-Fake’
During a hearing for the Congressional Oversight Committee regarding censorship by Twitter during the 2020 election, “Squad” member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (aka AOC) went on a wild tangent where she called the events surrounding Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop “half-fake.” “When New York Post first reported in October 2020 that it …
Read More »Oversight Republicans To Force Out Hunter Biden Documents, Citing ‘National Security Threat’
By Casey Harper (The Center Square) Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are taking up a resolution Tuesday that could force the release of documents related to Hunter Biden that they say the Biden administration is wrongly withholding from the committee’s investigation. The Republicans will take up Resolution 1243, which …
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