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WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services held a hearing titled “Examining the Growth of the Welfare State, Part 1” to scrutinize the enormous expansion of welfare programs over the last 60 years and evaluate strategies to reform deficiencies in the welfare system. Members explained how the bloated welfare state encourages dependency on federal assistance, ...

WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) held its inaugural hearing today titled “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud” to investigate the hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars wasted annually on improper payments and fraud. Expert witnesses shared step-by-step plans to improve payment ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene delivered an opening statement at the Subcommittee’s first hearing titled “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud.” Subcommittee Chairwoman Greene began her remarks with a critique of the soaring national debt, which has now reached a staggering $36 trillion. President Trump’s Department ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) delivered an opening statement at the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) first hearing titled “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud.” In his remarks, Chairman Comer commended President Trump’s swift efforts to equip Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced the establishment of a task force titled the “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.” The task force’s mission is to examine the declassification of materials in the public interest and will be led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.). This announcement follows President Trump’s executive order entitled “Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) delivered opening remarks at the Subcommittee’s first hearing of the 119th Congress titled “Examining the Growth of the Welfare State, Part 1.” Subcommittee Chairman Grothman began his remarks by describing how the rapid expansion of welfare programs has increased dependency on federal government assistance. He explained ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) will hold a press conference on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at 3:00pm ET to announce the creation of a new Oversight Committee task force of national interest. Who: House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James ComerRepresentative Anna Paulina Luna What: ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is opening a probe into the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program (TOPGUN) after reports surfaced of physical and mental harm done to pilots and instructors within the program. In a letter to Acting Secretary of the United States Navy Terence Emmert, the Chairman requests a briefing with as well as documents and information related to internal efforts to mitigate risk to Navy ...

WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation held a hearing titled, “Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty.” Subcommittee members discussed how the federal government wastes millions of dollars on cruel and unnecessary animal research. Subcommittee ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) Chairwoman Majorie Taylor Greene today announced the Subcommittee’s first hearing will be held on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, and be titled “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud.” Since 2003, a staggering $2.7 trillion taxpayer dollars have been lost to fraudulent and improper payments. Democrats, aided by the Biden-Harris Administration, exacerbated this fraud by massively ...