House Oversight Committee

The announcement comes after a hearing examining their alleged efforts to spread disinformation about the impact of fossil fuels on the climate.

"While in office, President Trump received preferential treatment potentially worth millions from a foreign bank," a statement by the Oversight Committee said.

"President Ghani's reckless and cowardly actions likely contributed to the speed with which the Taliban took over the country and toppled the Afghan government," Republican members of the House Oversight Committee wrote on Tuesday.

"In fact, it is just the opposite," Trump said of the handwritten notes reportedly penned by him.

A new report from the House Coronavirus Oversight Committee found that only $626 million fraudulent loans issued by the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) have been seized or forfeited.

Parler was unfairly singled out for scrutiny and any federal probe should also include Facebook and Twitter, two House Oversight Committee Republicans said in letter on Monday.

"I am going to get to the bottom of who owns and funds social media platforms like Parler that condone and create violence," Representative Carolyn Maloney said.

"The executive order stymied diversity and anti-racism training efforts outside of federal agencies as well," read a Tuesday letter from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

The Friday letter from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said that without proper oversight, "our democratic institutions will continue to slip away."

According to the congressional report, Trump administration officials overpaid by about $500 million.

Monday's letter from the House Oversight Committee said the Trump Administration's "wildly exaggerated rumors about Antifa has only served to encourage right-wing militias provoking violence."

The president in recent days, by way of tweet storms and press conferences, has relentlessly bashed the Ukraine whistleblower and denied any wrongdoing during a phone call in which he pressured a foreign leader to investigate a political opponent.

"Hundreds" of new cases have been reported in the past week alone, a top CDC official told lawmakers Tuesday.

The probes comes after media reports accused Chao of using her position in the Trump administration to benefit herself and her family's business.

Betsy DeVos is the eighth Trump administration official the House Oversight Committee found used personal email for government business.

Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act more than a dozen times, the Office of the Special Counsel noted. There were just two violations during the eight years of the Obama administration.

"We are not beyond holding in contempt, sanctioning or even using the Sergeant at Arms to bring someone in," Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) said.

"Once they state something even related to a congressional purpose, the court, I think, will allow this to go through," said Andrew Napolitano, a former judge.

"Every day that we go on without getting to the bottom of this matter is a day that we are putting hundreds, if not potentially thousands, of Americans at risk," the progressive Democrat from New York warned.

"President Trump's actions violate our Constitution's fundamental principle of checks and balances," House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said.

White House refuses to hand over documents requested by the House Oversight Committee, calling the request "unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive."

"The Committee expects full compliance with its requests as soon as possible, or it may become necessary to consider alternative means to compel compliance," House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings said.

"Are you referring to me, sir, or the president?" Cohen asked Arizona Representative Paul Gosar on Wednesday.

"She is a kind, good person. I respect her greatly, and she did not deserve that," Cohen said during his public testimony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

Cohen's prepared remarks are blunt about Trump and WikiLeaks.

The Republican National Committee mocked Michael Cohen's credibility in a new video shared on Twitter, a day before his appearance before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

"He's going to say things that will give you chills," a person close to Cohen reportedly said.

"If a review of Mr. Kushner's ethics issues was completed by the White House Counsel, it must be released," Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi stated.

Representative Trey Gowdy says it's up to the Department of Justice to decide whether to pursue an investigation into the president's alleged sexual misconduct.

More than 50 members of the Democratic Women's Working Group have called for a congressional investigation into the president's alleged sexual misconduct.