22 entries in the ledger
Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a memo obligating nearly $177 million in State Department Democracy Fund money -- including $22 million across ten awards that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen had placed on hold -- to new...
The State Department notified Congress in September 2026 that it would redirect $52 million in security assistance originally designated for Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq -- funds appropriated to help...
Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah asked the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 22, 2026, to investigate and subpoena Donald Trump Jr. over a Bahamas wedding celebration that ProPublica reported was partly funded...
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the senior Democrat on House Appropriations, disclosed on September 3, 2026 that the Defense Department and the National Institutes of Health had signed an interagency agreement giving the Pentagon...
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., publicly called on President Trump to remove Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sept. 3, 2026, two days after Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned following reported clashes with Hegseth. "I have...
Sens. Chris Van Hollen, Jack Reed, Angela Alsobrooks and Elizabeth Warren, all on the Senate Banking Committee, wrote to Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh on Aug. 19 asking him to disclose his communications with...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said reports about the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln had been “completely misrepresented,” speaking to Newsmax while visiting Panama. The Navy confirmed to CBS News that a sailor...
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sent a letter dated Aug. 12 to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao demanding answers about conditions aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln...
The Pentagon delivered its annual civilian casualty report to the congressional armed services committees on Aug. 11, 2026, finding that U.S. attacks in Yemen killed 153 civilians and wounded nearly 250 in three...
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal wrote on Aug. 10 to the Antwerp World Diamond Centre and the jeweler who made an 18-karat gold ring presented for Trump at a June 28 Brussels event, asking whether it was...