17 entries in the ledger
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...
The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel issued a 21-page opinion on August 10 concluding that executive privilege can extend to Trump's outside advisers who are not federal employees, so long as their...
More than 60 congressional Democrats sent a letter on the evening of August 9, 2026 to the Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs announcing an investigation into...
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted along party lines on Thursday, Aug. 6 to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, a week after he invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to...
Senate appropriators announced a bipartisan stopgap on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026 funding the government through Dec. 11 and blocking, for that period, the Office of Management and Budget rule requiring federal grants to be...
Members of Congress held an oversight forum in Houston on July 24, 2026 over the July 7 shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national killed when ICE agents opened fire on a van he was driving to work. The...