#Government Oversight

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• 🇺🇸 Raskin asks White House physician for ‘comprehensive cognitive assessment’ of Trump — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Friday pressed the White House physician for a full evaluation of President Trump’s cognitive abilities. In a letter to Sean Barbabella, a Navy captain serving as Trump’s...

  Related: #Political Conflict, #Presidential Health
• 🇺🇸 USA Rare Earth CEO defends Trump administration investment as congressional questions swirl — 10/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Geopolitics, #Supply Chain Security
• 🇺🇸 Bondi Won’t Appear on Capitol Hill for Scheduled Epstein Deposition — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Pam Bondi had already been working to avoid testifying before she was fired as attorney general. The House Oversight Committee said she would not honor her subpoena because she was no longer in the po...

  Related: #Legal Proceedings, #Political Accountability
• 🇺🇸 Bondi won't testify next week in House Epstein probe; lawmakers push to reschedule — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The Justice Department has told the House Oversight Committee that now-former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear before the committee next week to answer questions about the department’s handl...

  Related: #Legal Accountability, #Judicial Reform
• 🇺🇸 Former AG Pam Bondi won't testify about DOJ's handling of Epstein files, defying subpoena — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear before the House Oversight Committee next week as part of the panel's investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

  Related: #Epstein Investigation, #Subpoena Dispute, #DOJ Transparency
• 🇺🇸 Judge rules White House ballroom construction must halt until Congress OK's it — 31/03/2026 [USA]

  Trump responded to the ruling by complaining that the National Trust for Historic Preservation doesn't appreciate his efforts at "sprucing up" Washington's buildings.

  Related: #Historic Preservation
• 🇺🇸 Senate confirms Trump's pick for new role of fraud enforcement at Justice Department — 24/03/2026 [USA]

  The confirmation comes just days after the White House announced details of its own task force to pursue fraud in government programs.

  Related: #Fraud Enforcement
• 🇺🇸 House committee subpoenas Arlington's prosecutor over handling of threats against Stephen Miller — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena Friday to the chief prosecutor in Arlington County, saying she appears to have stymied an investigation into a "left-wing agitator" who was harass...

  Related: #Political Investigations
• 🇺🇸 Bondi Doesn’t Commit to Deposition With House Panel Over Epstein Files — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Under the rules of the oversight committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi received a subpoena requiring her to appear. The panel’s Republican chairman said he sent the summons reluctantly.

  Related: #Legal Proceedings, #Epstein Investigation
• 🇬🇧 Trump nominee Markwayne Mullin grilled by senators at DHS confirmation hearing – live — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Committee chair Rand Paul and Markwayne Mullin exchange heated remarks at hearing to confirm new homeland security secretary</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/t...

  Related: #Political Confirmation
• 🇺🇸 Watch: King presses Ratcliffe, Gabbard about briefing Trump about Iran ahead of strikes — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Angus King of Maine questioned CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about briefing President Trump about intelligence on Iran in the days and weeks lead...

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 House asks Fairfax County officials to testify on sanctuary status — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  The House Judiciary Committee has called Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid and Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano to testify and defend their sanctuary policies at a hearing next month.

  Related: #Immigration Policy
• 🇺🇸 House oversight panel subpoenas Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify April 14 on Epstein — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Top House investigators issued a subpoena on Tuesday ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to appear before the panel for a deposition about Jeffrey Epstein.

  Related: #Legal Investigation
• 🇺🇸 Watch live: Postmaster general testifies before House on oversight of Postal Service — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Postmaster General David Steiner is testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday afternoon about the financial future of the United States Postal Service. The heari...

  Related: #Postal Service
• 🇺🇸 WATCH LIVE: Postmaster General Steiner testifies at House hearing on financial future of USPS — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  David Steiner is scheduled to testify before Congress Tuesday about the Postal Service's financial struggles and the need to change longstanding rules and regulations that he considers burdensome. He ...

  Related: #Postal Service
• 🇺🇸 WATCH LIVE: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya testifies at NIH oversight hearing before House panel — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will testify Tuesday in an oversight hearing before the House Appropriations Committee.

  Related: #Public Health
• 🇺🇸 FCC chair Brendan Carr says broadcast licenses are not a "property right" — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  In an exclusive interview with CBS News Saturday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr doubled down on his warning that broadcast licenses could be revoked amid President Trump's criticisms of me...

  Related: #Media Regulation, #Press Freedom
• 🇺🇸 Senate committee finds Medicare Advantage overpayments cost seniors billions — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Senate committee finds Medicare Advantage overpayments cost seniors billions A report by the Senate Joint Econom...

  Related: #Healthcare Finance
• 🇺🇸 Judge Quashes Justice Dept.’s Subpoenas Targeting Federal Reserve Chair — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Judge James E. Boasberg derided the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington for pursuing a case against Jerome H. Powell that appeared to be motivated by President Trump’s desire for vengeance.

  Related: #Legal Ruling
• 🇺🇸 Oversight panel demands interview with former Epstein prison guard — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  The House Oversight Committee is requesting an interview with a prison guard who was on duty the day Jeffrey Epstein died as part of its broader investigation into the sex offender’s death. “Due to pu...

  Related: #Prison Security
• 🇺🇸 US OPM evaluates cost of observer program looking at race discrimination in voting — 13/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Voting Rights
• 🇺🇸 Trump administration has scaled back oversight of student loan servicers, congressional watchdog finds — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  The Department of Education has scaled back its oversight of student loan servicers, a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office finds.

  Related: #Education Policy
• 🇺🇸 Senators ask watchdog agency to audit DOJ protocols for unlawful Epstein file redactions — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Four senators on Wednesday asked a government watchdog agency to audit the "protocols and processes" the Justice Department used to make what the lawmakers consider unlawful redactions in the Jeffrey ...

  Related: #Legal Accountability
• 🇺🇸 Federal oversight protects student borrowers. Some of it has stopped, watchdog says — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Without this Education Department oversight, borrowers could "be placed in the wrong loan repayment status, billed for incorrect amounts" and more, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says.

  Related: #Student Loans
• 🇺🇸 Alleged overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans cost seniors billions: Investigation — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  A new report released by the bipartisan Senate Joint Economic Committee (JEC) on Tuesday found that overpaying for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans caused Medicare Part B premiums to rise across the boar...

  Related: #Healthcare Fraud
• 🇺🇸 Senate Democrats call for public hearings on Iran operation — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  A group of Senate Democrats on Tuesday called for public hearings in regard to the Trump administration’s Iran operation.  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside Sens. Jack Reed (D-R....

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 As Kari Lake Sought to Shutter Voice of America, Parent Agency Rebuffed Auditors — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  A new report says the lack of information provided for a required annual examination was so “pervasive” that auditors declined to opine on the agency’s financial numbers.

  Related: #Media Politics
• 🇺🇸 Senate Democrat says Stephen Miller was ‘calling the shots’ at DHS under Noem — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) on Sunday said White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller was “calling the shots” at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and said Mil...

  Related: #Political Influence
• 🇺🇸 As DOJ lawyers face complaints, agency seeks tighter grasp on state bar ethics probes — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  The Justice Department is turning its focus to state bar associations in its quest to clamp down on weaponization of the justice system.  As DOJ lawyers face piling complaints, the government is seeki...

  Related: #Legal Ethics
• 🇺🇸 Noem ouster at DHS comes after fiery Senate hearing, answer on ad spending — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Kristi Noem's answers at Tuesday's Senate hearing may have been the deciding factor in President Trump's decision to remove her as DHS secretary. CBS News congressional correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burn...

  Related: #Political Accountability