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Representative Trey Gowdy, a Republican from South Carolina and chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi listens as Hillary Clinton, not pictured, testifies during a House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing in Washington, Oct. 22, 2015. The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee is sending a warning shot to federal agencies and the White House for not fully complying with the panel's investigation into administration air travel.
Michigan's governor insisted Thursday that his congressional testimony regarding the Flint water crisis "was truthful and I stand by it," shortly after a committee pointed out a potential discrepancy and warned him about committing perjury. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder sent the letter to Reps.
The Trump administration acknowledged on Thursday that billions more dollars are "urgently needed" to ensure a fair and accurate count during the 2020 Census. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told a House panel that new cost estimates show the 2020 Census will cost $15.6 billion, about 27 percent more than earlier projections.
With a U.S. House committee now asking for details about private charter jet travel at taxpayer expense by HHS Secretary Tom Price and other top administration officials, President Donald Trump on Wednesday left open the possibility that he might fire the former Georgia Congressman, bluntly telling reporters he is 'not happy' with news reports about Price's flights. "I will tell you personally, I'm not happy about it," the President told reporters as he left the White House on Wednesday afternoon for a speech on tax reform.
With more details emerging about private charter flights taken at government expense by top officials of the Trump Administration, leading lawmakers on a key oversight committee in Congress asked the White House on Wednesday for details on those flights, raising questions about the proper stewardship of taxpayer dollars. "The Committee is examining the extent to which non-career officials at federal departments and agencies either use government-owned aircraft for personal travel or private non-commercial aircraft for official travel," read a bipartisan letter sent to White House Chief of Staff.
So I covered a story several evenings ago about news of White House senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner setting up a private email account and using it for official White House business. Just to be clear, it wasn't a Hillary Clinton-styled private server, or anything on that level.
A top House Republican has demanded details on the use of private emails by some of President Donald Trump's closest advisers. Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina conservative who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the top Democrat on that panel, Rep. Elijah Cummings, cite a recent Politico report that Jared Kushner set up a private email account after the election to conduct work-related business.
Democratic lawmakers said on September 13 that are investigating whether U.S. President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn secretly promoted a U.S.-Russian project to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the Middle East.
Michael Flynn, former national security adviser, also advised Donald Trump during the presidential campaign. His son's lobbying activities are now reported to be a focus of the special counsel's probe.
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn spoke, Feb. 1, during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. Flynn is facing new scrutiny over his failure to report a June 2015 trip to the Middle East that was part of an effort to build nuclear power plants across the region.
President Donald Trump's latest threat to shut the government is just the most recent indication that he is unfit and unprepared for the office. The notion that the president of the United States would purposefully imperil services to taxpayers if Congress doesn't approve $1.6 billion for his Mexico border wall would be far-fetched, if a credible person occupied the White House.
Congress is out and the Iowa State Fair is in - which means 2020 prospects are beginning to beat a path to the Hawkeye State. Maryland Rep. John Delaney, who's actually already running for president, is spending a few days with the Butter Cow.
House Democrats sent a letter to the Trump administration Monday demanding information about the task forces established by the president to reduce burdensome government regulations. The letter points to a report that found the task forces have been operating "largely out of public view and often by political appointees with deep industry ties and political conflicts."
Trump, who has grown increasingly angry over the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of Russian interference in last year's election, is using his Twitter account to argue that the probe is unwarranted and should be terminated. Mueller, a former FBI director, is looking into potential links between Russia and the Trump campaign in the presidential election.
Two top Democrats on key House committees accused the Trump administration and congressional Republicans of "stonewalling" efforts to hold the White House to account. Rep. Elijah Cummings , the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, and Rep. John Conyers , the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, wrote in an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun on Friday that their Republican colleagues had all but abdicated their congressional oversight duties.
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington, Feb. 1, 2017. Democratic lawmakers investigating fired national security adviser Michael Flynn's security clearance said Monday they could not find the hotel Flynn said he stayed at during a 2015 trip to Saudi Arabia or any record of a conference he reported attending.
Two top House Democrats are questioning whether former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn failed to report a 2015 trip to the Middle East to security clearance investigators. Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings and New York and Rep. Eliot Engel say in a letter Monday that they believe Flynn may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the trip, which they believe involved a proposal to develop nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia.
In a fight between Donald Trump and Senate Democrats' oversight authority, Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley just took a powerful stand on the side of Democrats. The veteran Iowa Republican is not happy with Trump's gag order on federal agencies, calling a new Department of Justice policy of shutting down oversight requests from Democrats "nonsense."
The special counsel investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia's government has taken over a separate criminal probe involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and may expand his inquiry to investigate the roles of the attorney general and deputy attorney general in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, the Associated Press has learned. The Justice Department's criminal investigation into Manafort, who was forced to resign as Trump campaign chairman in August amid questions over his business dealings years ago in Ukraine, predated the 2016 election and the counterintelligence probe that in July began investigating possible collusion between Moscow and associates of Trump.