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What's that saying about actions and consequences? Former Biden administration officials should probably freshen up on it because they are about to learn a hard lesson. According to a new report, President Donald Trump has removed any claim of executive privilege regarding ex-Biden officials testifying in the House Oversight Committee probe regarding the former president's senility. Neera Tanden, who now spends her time getting embarrassed by Scott Jennings on CNN, was the subject of a White House counsel letter making it clear that executive privilege claims are "not justified." It goes on to "authorize" Tanden to speak openly and honestly...

In the 76 day period between Trump winning and Biden leaving office $93 billion was sent from the DOE, who GAVE IT AWAY WITH NO OVERSIGHT, TO ENTITIES WITH NO FINANCIALS“The 76-day period you're talking about, that's the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office — How much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy?From the Loan Program Office in Loans and Commitments $93 billion. Well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years”— You’re you're telling me that the Department of Energy in the 76-day period...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) sent a letter Friday to Congress asking for $40 billion in funding for fire relief — two weeks after signing $50 million in spending to fight the Trump administration on immigration and other policies. As Breitbart News reported, “Both bills were passed after a special legislative session called by Newsom after the election to prepare California to lead the opposition to the second Trump administration. Newsom and the Democrat-controlled legislature reached a deal to fund the anti-Trump effort even as the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire were still smoldering in Los Angeles.”

This morning as I was driving to a client's home listening to the radio a very interesting explanation was being discussed. Did you know the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was not part of the Congressional Budget?These darn communists actually had the Fed funding them. Apparently the CFPB is not a line item, but the government has to request a 'draw' for funding from the Federal Reserve Bank? The CFFB is now sitting on $700 million dollars and the Trump administration simply says they don't need this particular draw, so it is $0.00.When Obama and Warren set this up this way...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With faith in government oversight at an all-time low, Washington Democrats announced a new oversight committee to oversee the government oversight committee. "We've had government oversight committees for years and they never reported the kind of waste and abuse Elon Musk is talking about," said Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "That's why I had this brilliant idea to establish a new government oversight committee to oversee the current government oversight committee." "I'm really smart," she added. The committee, formally established as the Committee on Overseeing Government Subcommittees (COGS), will take on a watchdog role, overseeing the various subcommittees under...

Assisted dying cases would no longer have to be signed off by the High Court under changes suggested by the bill's supporters. The proposed law currently says a High Court judge must check each person is eligible and has not been coerced into making the decision to die. But BBC News has been told Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP behind the bill, will suggest replacing this with a panel of experts who would oversee applications. It comes after concerns were raised over the court's capacity to hear each individual case.

MASSIVE. President Trump has just signed an executive order mandating an audit of all NGOs that receive federal funding. 4:06 PM · Feb 6, 2025 · 79.4K Views

Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst appeared Monday on Newsmax to say that members of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have obstructed and even threatened her efforts to oversee how it distributes money. VIDEO AT LINK................... During an appearance on “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” Ernst talked about her past problems with USAID and complained about a lack of transparency in how its funds are distributed. Funds, she said, often do not go toward their initially intended purposes. This alleged redirection of funds prompted Ernst to question USAID about its operational practices, a move she said was...

Progressive darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 35, flopped in her bid to helm the powerful House Oversight Committee, losing to Rep. Gerry Connolly, 74, who is foreshadowing political “trench warfare” against the GOP. Connolly (D-Va.) won the spot in a House Democratic caucus vote Tuesday, one day after notching the support from the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. “Tried my best. Sorry I couldn’t pull it through everyone — we live to fight another day,” the Empire State rep posted on her BlueSky account after losing the vote. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had been the No. 2 Democrat on the committee for the...

Then head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, he invented a new form of what 19th-early 20th centuries Tammany boss George Washington Plunkett famously called “Honest Graft.” It was simple. Until 1977, Congress had to approve any settlement of a civil suit against the Federal government over $100,000. This preserved the Constitutional requirement that Congress control the government’s purse. But in that year, seeking relief from the burgeoning volume of suits to review, Congress removed the cap, handing the Justice Department a permanent blank check to pay settlements unilaterally, in any amount, out of an account known as the Judgment...

The House Oversight Committee has opened an investigation into Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent visit to Pennsylvania as the November election quickly approaches. The committee is asking questions surrounding the Biden-Harris Administration’s alleged use of taxpayer-funded resources to fly Zelensky to the state, Fox News reported on Wednesday. In a press release, the committee said Chairman James Comer (R-KY) “is seeking documents from the White House, Department of Defense, and Department of Justice regarding the Biden-Harris Administration’s misuse of government resources that allowed Zelensky to interfere in the 2024 presidential election.”

CHICAGO — A group of officials elected to provide oversight of the police in one of the most violence-plagued areas of Chicago released an unusual statement on Saturday afternoon. The Austin (15th) District Councilors decided to speak out after gunmen ambushed a victim in a targeted daytime attack that was caught on video Wednesday morning. It was caught on video, showing three gunmen opening fire on the victim, with two killers firing round after round, one from a rifle, at close range even after he had fallen to the ground. (We are not publishing the video on this page due...

The heads of the Secret Service, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security have reportedly declined to testify on the second day of the Congressional hearing into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The news was first reported by FOX News, which stated that the House Homeland Security Committee is currently holding its second hearing on the matter. “The House, Homeland Security Committee, is holding the second Congressional hearing, looking into the attempted assassination of former President Trump. But for today’s hearing, heads of the Secret Service, FBI, and Homeland Security have all declined to testify. We are listening...

Join RSBN at 9 am ET on Monday, July 22, 2024, for a full committee hearing, "Oversight of the U.S. Secret Service and the Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump." The hearing will begin at 10 am ET. U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle will testify.

The number of children being educated at home has been growing for the past few decades. No one knows by how much, and that is part of the problem. Home­school­ing is barely tracked or regulated in the U.S. But children deserve a safe and robust education, whether they attend a traditional school or are educated at home.The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reported that by last count, in 2019, nearly 3 percent of U.S. children—1.5 million—were being home­schooled. This number, calculated from a nationwide survey, is surely an undercount because the home­schooling population is notoriously hard to survey, and...

Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis suggested on Monday that the creation of a new prosecutorial oversight panel in Georgia is racially motivated. “Georgia had never had a prosecutorial oversight committee,” Willis told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, when asked about the state Senate’s special committee investigation. “All of a sudden, 14 minorities were elected to office to serve as district attorney,” she continued. “And now all of a sudden they need an oversight committee to look after district attorneys because they want to tell us how to prosecute and who to prosecute and where we should put our resources,...

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (R-Md.) called the recent verbal battle in his committee sparked by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) words “a failure of leadership.” “So, this was a failure of leadership,” Raskin said on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” Friday. “When the chairman of the committee declined simply to rule her words out of order, and to have them taken down, as [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)] immediately moved to do, when he refused to do that, at that point, it unleashed the chaos in the committee.”

NPR’s lady boss is dodging congressional oversight like a debtor dodges a creditor. The N in NPR stands for National. I guess that Katherine Maher, CEO, does not know that because the leftist lady boss is avoiding a date with the “National” Congress. It would be like a corporate CEO avoiding a meeting with the shareholders who own a portion of the company. In the case of NPR, it’s the Congress that votes for the funding that keeps the network going. They have a duty to ask questions and Miss Maher has a responsibility to answer them. I think that...

The Georgia Election Board voted Tuesday to reprimand Fulton County and appoint an independent monitor for the 2024 election for violating state law while conducting a recount of the 2020 presidential election. In a 2-1 vote on the panel that oversees how counties conduct elections, members agreed to admonish Fulton County and order a monitor for this year’s campaigns. That allows the county to avoid paying a fine or having the attorney general investigate the double-counting of 3,075 ballots and other allegations of irregularities during the 2020 presidential recount. Georgia election officials determined mistakes in 2020 by county election workers...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revising long-standing rules to place laboratory tests under the same jurisdiction as other testing, which the agency says will help ensure better safety and efficacy. Since 1976, the FDA has not enforced legal requirements on most laboratory developed tests (LDT) due to the Medical Device Amendments. Generally speaking, this has meant that requirements such as good manufacturing practices, premarket reviews prior to use in patients and adverse event reporting has not been enforced. LDTs are diagnostic tests that are made and used within a single laboratory. As the FDA noted in its rule...