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District Court Decision May Help Pave the Way for Trump Administration’s Border Wall Plans
Posts · Apr 2, 2018
The construction of potentially hundreds of miles of fencing and other barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border is a key pillar of the Trump Administration’s border security strategy. Completing this...
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Supreme Court Stays Injunction That Had Blocked a Portion of the Administration’s Border Wall Funding
Posts · Jul 29, 2019
UPDATE: On July 26, 2019, the Supreme Court in a divided decision stayed a June 28 injunction issued by a federal district court in California that had permanently prohibited the Trump Administration...
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NIH Grants Policy Under the Second Trump Administration
InFocus · Apr 17, 2026
Since President Trump took office on January 20, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—the nation’s leading health and medical...
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Legal Authority to Repurpose Funds for Border Barrier Construction
Reports · Dec 30, 2019
President Trump has prioritized the construction of border barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Over the course of negotiations for FY2019 appropriations, the Administration asked Congress to...
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Presidential Pardon of Former Honduran President Convicted of Drug Trafficking
Legal Sidebar · Dec 8, 2025
On November 28, 2025, President Donald Trump announced on social media that he intended to issue a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández. President Trump...
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District Court Temporarily Blocks Implementation of Asylum Restrictions on Unlawful Entrants at the Southern Border
Posts · Dec 11, 2018
Update: Following publication of this Sidebar, on December 7, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a 2-1 decision denied the Trump Administration’s emergency motion to stay the...
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The Trump Administration’s “Zero Tolerance” Immigration Enforcement Policy
Reports · Feb 2, 2021
For the last decade, Central American migrant families have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in relatively large numbers, many seeking asylum. While some request asylum at U.S. ports of entry,...
Hearing Full Committee Hearing on the Trump Administration’s 2026 Trade Policy Agenda with United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer
house Ways and Means Committee · Apr 22, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine how the Trump Administration is addressing the human cost of soft on crime policies.
senate Judiciary Committee · Sep 30, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Examining the Trump Administration’s Work Combatting Transnational Cartels in Indian Country
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing The Trump Administration’s 2025 Trade Policy Agenda with United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer
house Ways and Means Committee · Apr 9, 2025 · Request transcript
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Responses to Midnight Rulemaking: Legal Issues
Posts · Jan 17, 2025
Federal agencies often increase rulemaking activity during the final months of a presidential administration—a phenomenon commonly known as “midnight rulemaking.” For example, since Election Day,...
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The Law of Asylum Procedure at the Border: Statutes and Agency Implementation
Reports · Apr 9, 2021
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) generally provides for the removal of non-U.S. citizens or nationals (“aliens,” under the INA) encountered at the border without valid entry documents,...
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesot...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"We are, we are... Inflation now on an annualized basis is significantly lower than that pace. So about 5%? Does that sound about right? 5% more or less during the Biden administration. No, during the Trump administration. During the Trump administration, no, it's lower than that. Lower than that. Generally, the rule for economics is that, and this is an oversimplification, is that inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few"
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Restricting TikTok (Part I): Legal History and Background
Posts · Sep 28, 2023
The video-sharing platform TikTok has experienced a dramatic rise in users in the United States in recent years, while at the same time some Members of Congress and Biden Administration officials...
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Congressional Oversight of the State Department: Review of Selected Organizational Reform Efforts
Reports · Dec 20, 2021
Over the past several decades, Members of Congress, former and current senior State Department officials, academics and think-tank analysts, and other stakeholders have proposed numerous initiatives...
Testimony SPEAKER_01
“Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Okay, but you don't know how many of your agents have been taken off child exploitation cases to do immigration enforcement? Well, let's try this. The New York Times reported last year that under the Trump administration, the second Trump administration, HSI agents worked 33 percent fewer hours on child exploitation cases because they had been reassigned to work immigration. Does that number sound plausible to"
Testimony CRAIG, ANGIE
"Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"is unstable. In the past year, the president has asked, who would ever sign a thing like this? This might surprise the current Trump administration, but USMCA was negotiated by the first Trump administration and signed by President Trump. And while USMCA may not be perfect, there are certainly improvements that we should make. It's still vital for American farmers, ranchers, foresters, and businesses. In our continued pursuit to feed, clothe, and fuel the world, Mexico and Canada remain our top..."
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U.S.-South Korea Relations
Reports · Feb 24, 2022
Overview South Korea (officially the Republic of Korea or ROK) is one of the United States’ most important strategic and economic partners in Asia. The 1953 U.S.-ROK Mutual Defense Treaty commits the...
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Asylum Processing at the Border: Legal Basics
Posts · Mar 19, 2021
Recent statistics and reports from the southern border show a sharp increase in the arrival of non-U.S. nationals (called “aliens” under governing law) who lack visas or other valid entry documents....
Testimony SALINAS, ANDREA
"Increasing Demand and Opportunities for Homegrown Products Here and A...
house Agriculture Committee · Sep 16, 2026
"stop an 83% drop in sales for Oregon wine. Is that correct? Correct. That is correct. Okay. So, has the Trump administration, or did the Trump administration, in any way that you know of, work with the wine industry or any of these"
Testimony MCGARVEY, MORGAN
Community Care Network Next Generation: One Trillion Dollars of Oversi...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate you all being here. I mean, look, my focus is the veterans. It's the focus of this committee. It's my focus. We have to do what's best for our veterans. They put on a uniform, they served, they sacrificed for us, and we promised we'd take care of them. So when I think about this, I want our veterans who need it and want it to get their care through the VA. I know the VA can't necessarily provide every single service available, but we've got to have a VA..."
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on Ameri...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"to return blue slips for some nominees. Now the rest of the story. For the past 18 months, the committee has considered nominees to fill dozens of judicial vacancies in red states that Republican senators held open for years by refusing to return blue slips during the administration. Many Senate Republicans, though not all, engaged in unprecedented obstruction despite good-faith efforts by the Biden White House to fill vacancies. Consider this. During the Trump administration, Senate Democrats..."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
Legislative Hearing on: • H.R. 177 (Rep. McClintock), “Yosemite Nation...
house Natural Resources Committee · Sep 16, 2026
"Importantly, the programmatic biop, ITS, and technical assistance process in that instance that we modeled off of was defended by the Obama administration, the first Trump administration, the Biden administration, and now the second Trump administration, and has been endorsed in the cooling water case by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second"
Testimony WICKER, ROGER F.
Hearings to examine the posture of United States Northern Command and ...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 19, 2026
"So expect that question. I hope the Trump administration for—I commend the Trump administration for the decisive action it has taken to reassert U.S. interest near the homeland, including the"
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Intelligence Community Presidentially Appointed Senate Confirmed Officials (PAS) During the Administrations of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack H. Obama, and Donald J. Trump: In Brief
Reports · May 24, 2021
This report provides in three tables the names of those who have served in presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed (PAS) positions in the Intelligence Community (IC) during the last twenty years....
Testimony CASTRO, JOAQUIN
FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Do you agree that these cartels, which the administration has designated as foreign terrorist organizations, should not get any weapons from the United States? Well, then, I guess that's why I'm confused, because in September 2025, you rescinded the April 30th, 2024 BIS regulations that added safeguards for the export of firearms and stopped notifying the Congress about exports of these weapons, and the Trump administration's State Department, if the Trump administration's State Department and..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secur...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"certainly to our ranking member, Ms. Castor, for all the work that she spent on this over the years. The two of you really did a lot of the work on this and I do want to recognize that as well, as well as Chairman Guthrie. But let me get back to this issue. So when we talk about the issue before us today, I just want to stress that American ingenuity and inventiveness are things that we can all celebrate. Over the course of our 250-year history, America has been the birthplace of countless..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"They've called no hearings on the Ellison's corrupt Paramount Skydance Warner Brothers Discovery merger or the deep corruption at the heart of the Paramount Skydance merger. They've not called a single Trump administration antitrust official to come testify before this subcommittee about the political destabilization and saturation of the antitrust process of review in the administration. In fact, the only Trump-era antitrust official to appear before this committee, this entire Congress, was a..."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"You can't believe anything they have to say. This legislation allows the Trump administration to deport green card holders if a Trump administration official decides that the green card holder is or has been a member of a criminal gang. And there's no due process for that determination, just like there's no due process for these speed boats. When did it become illegal to operate a speed boat in the Caribbean or in the Eastern"
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Redefining Waters of the United States (WOTUS): Recent Developments
Reports · Jul 8, 2022
Congress established the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act (CWA), to restore and protect the quality of the nation’s surface waters. The CWA protects “navigable...
Testimony COURTNEY, JOE
“Workforce Rewired: Modern Apprenticeships for a Modern Economy”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"again, take their trade and their families or whatever to different parts of the country. Unfortunately, that sort of seems to be sort of the crux of the debate that's been going on over the last four or five years with the first Trump administration, Biden administration, and now we're back again with the Trump administration. So Mr. Ladd, in terms of your experience working in the Office of Apprenticeships, I mean, this issue of quality standards is not excessive government. It's really to..."
Testimony MENENDEZ, ROBERT
The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget.
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 16, 2026
"Okay, I'll answer the question for you. Gas is up a dollar per gallon since January and diesel prices are now over five dollars per gallon. Electricity prices have risen as much as 13% nationwide since President Trump took office. Inflation tripled last month on the record gas spike due to the President's war with Iran. So I would give you an F, as I believe most Americans who are getting crushed by rising prices would. Let's talk about how we got here. Mr. Wright, following the Trump..."
Testimony COMER, JAMES
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026
"And I'm pretty confident this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Trump administration has taken a whole-of-government approach to rooting out fraud. The Trump administration has already uncovered at least $9 billion in fraud. These criminals have stolen taxpayer dollars from all Americans to fund lavish cars, homes, and vacations here in the U.S. and"
Testimony GARCIA, ROBERT
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"we would not have all of these officers with all this illegal behavior on Minnesota streets. And we should remember that the Trump administration tried to use Operation Metro Surge as leverage to seize Minnesota's voter rolls. The Trump administration was never serious about addressing fraud in Minnesota. Instead, they've been interested in election conspiracy theories and terrorizing kids. And they've accused the governor and attorney general of covering up fraud only to investigate them and..."
Testimony MR. AARON AMENT, M.A., J.D.
“Who Gets the Scholarship? How the Global Shift in College Sports Affe...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Sep 16, 2026
"Previous administrations attempted to halt the flow of federal dollars for for-profit and career-oriented programs whose graduates didn't earn enough to pay back their loans through regulations known as the gainful employment rules. The Trump administration gutted those efforts. At a time when Americans are struggling to afford their daily lives, the Trump administration is poised to resume seizing distressed borrowers' tax refunds, Social Security benefits, and their wages. The administration..."
Testimony BONAMICI, SUZANNE
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"A study from the Trevor Project found that anti-transgender laws cause up to 72% increase in suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary youth. 72%. That's unacceptable and it's avoidable. So I'm going to ask you, Mr. Smith, why is it important for schools to support and protect all students, including transgender students in schools? And I have another question, so I'll go with that one first. Thank you for your question, Representative And Mr. Smith, the Trump administration is..."
Testimony CAREY, MIKE
Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Then the bill was passed a year later, signed into law under President Biden, but it was the current Trump administration that implemented this, and I just want to make sure I'm correct. It was the Trump administration that implemented the Social Security Fairness Act. Am I correct? And I want to thank you for clarifying that so that everybody understands the role that you"
Testimony SCOTT, RICK
Hearings to examine leveling the playing field, focusing on restoring ...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Sep 23, 2026
"researchers, and manufacturers about their concerns and how it's putting our families at risk every single day. One thing is clear, there's an urgent need to address our dependence on communist China and India for drugs, and that starts with making safe medicines here in America. This week, the Trump administration announced a great step towards further investing in American drug manufacturing. I'm glad to note the Trump administration is taking action. Now we need to see more American..."
Testimony KAINE, TIM
Hearings to examine the nominations of Barbera Thornhill, of North Car...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Great. Thank you. And Mr. Brown, I'm not going to leave you out. I mean, I didn't want you to feel disappointed, so I'm going to ask a question of you too, and then I'll yield it back to the chair, and I applaud – or I thank the chair for giving me some grace on timing. In March, just a couple months back, I guess that's three, four months ago now, three months ago, the Associated Press reported that Equatorial Guinea – and this is a quote from the article – an authoritarian Petro state signed..."
Testimony ROSS, DEBORAH K.
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"not last session when we had these hearings, today, the greatest threat to free speech in America comes not from the media, not from big tech, but from Donald Trump himself. And he has just made that plain. You don't even have to look around or have an investigative report. He's just telling us what he's doing. So this hearing today, unless we talk about the Trump administration as well, is not about protecting the First Amendment. Rather, it's a distraction from the fact that the Trump..."
Testimony STANTON, GREG
A New Beginning for Colombia
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"The United States and Colombia have long shared a partnership built on mutual respect, democratic values, and cooperation to advance security and prosperity throughout the hemisphere. Unfortunately, by making reckless threats to use military force on Colombian soil, the Trump administration did little to keep the U.S.-Colombia partnership on track during President Petro's term. Rather than build on historic cooperation, the Trump administration allowed its political hostility toward President..."
Testimony DELAURO, ROSA L.
Oversight Hearing - U.S. Small Business Administration
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"more than a 50% rise in filings during the first half of 2026, compared to the same period last year. When President Trump launched his ill-fated trade war, it was small businesses who bore the brunt of it. Many large importers were able to absorb the shock, passing price hikes onto consumers, stockpiling inputs in advance, or working their Washington connections to secure a carve-out for their product from the Trump administration. For small businesses, those were not available options. When..."
Testimony SÁNCHEZ, LINDA T.
H.R. 10357, H.R. 10334, H.R. 6130, H.R. 5439, H.R. 4093, H.R. 10346, a...
house Ways and Means Committee · Sep 16, 2026
"to curb the imports of goods made with forced labor from the DRC? I mean, that would be logical. That would be rational, because that would be something that would actually address the problem. We can't also ignore the context of this bill. The Trump administration negotiated backroom critical minerals deal with the DRC in the midst of an ongoing violent conflict. House Republicans refused to call out the Trump administration for the impact on child labor then, and they're to do anything about..."
Testimony VELÁZQUEZ, NYDIA M.
Various Measures
house Small Business Committee · May 20, 2026
"Unfortunately, this is not the case. Instead, the Trump administration is bilking taxpayers to bankroll a billion-dollar ballroom. And rather than lowering costs and making life better for small businesses, the Trump administration is making life harder and more expensive. They have ripped health care from millions, cut food assistance for kids, veterans, and seniors, and raised prices on everything from groceries to"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U....
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"afford the deductible, you're going back to the days when there was no ACA, where Americans were skipping care that they need and instead come to health care providers sicker and more desperate and it's going to leave millions of Americans buried in medical debt. That's the other thing that will force even more providers to close their doors. And the Trump administration and Republicans are doubling down on Medicaid cuts at all. Also, we heard this yesterday in the hearing, in their latest..."
Testimony SPEAKER_19
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"The presumption is if you own a business, you must be engaged in illicit finance. So it's had problems in the court, and for that reason, the Trump administration halted the application of the previous administration's rule, and they said we're going to more narrowly apply it to foreign ownership interests, and that's what this does. The Trump administration codifies that policy so that FinCEN can focus on genuine national security concerns. This was brought into this world through the NDAA,..."
Testimony BIGGS, ANDY
“Sanctuary Policies, Tragic Consequences”
house Judiciary Committee · Sep 1, 2026
"illegal alien arrested. Without objection. ICE arrests illegal alien truck driver who critically injured American man in semi-truck accident. Without objection. ICE lodges detainers for criminal illegal aliens arrested for trafficking more than 300 pounds of cocaine hidden in a Indiana. Without objection. Deadly semi-trailer crash in California renews federal criticism of immigrant truck drivers. Without objection. Trump administration says driver in Florida crash was in U.S. illegally false..."
Testimony MEEKS, GREGORY W.
A New Beginning for Colombia
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"the brutal violence committed by transnational crime organizations that operate within Colombian borders. In that regard, the Trump administration's cancellation and dismantling of assistance program serving Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities is especially troubling. And I look forward to hearing from our witnesses why the Trump administration has defied bipartisan congressional intent and appropriations law and abruptly canceled funding for such activities. In closing, presidents come..."
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Daniel Mack Traynor, of North D...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Why did you volunteer to preside over these cases in Minnesota? And in light of your embrace of the Trump administration's position, even when judges have ruled against the administration policy more than 10,000 times, why should we feel or have confidence you can be a neutral arbiter when it comes to presiding over challenges to the Trump administration action? But the bottom line on the issue of habeas corpus, the issue of detention, why is it you're such an outlier when it comes to Trump..."
Testimony CASTOR, KATHY
The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget.
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 16, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome, Mr. Secretary. Mr. Secretary, the policies of the Trump administration have made life very expensive for our neighbors back home. It is truly soul-crushing what they are experiencing right now. Electric bills are way up. Under the Trump administration, household electric bills have risen as much as 13 percent nationally, and utilities are imposing massive rate hikes. Trump's war in Iran has sent an energy shock rippling through the economy with huge price..."
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"All right. Thank you. I'm glad to hear that is a priority because most of the FBI and DOJ folks who work on that have been pulled off to do immigration work. But I think it is abundantly clear to anyone who's paying attention that the number one source of fraud, waste, and abuse in our federal government today is the Trump administration, whether it's shady crypto investments, insider trading on the stock market and prediction markets, or massive pay-to-play schemes for pardons and dropped..."
Testimony MENENDEZ, ROBERT
The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget.
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 16, 2026
"Well, that's interesting because last summer, President Trump initiated strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran claiming that their program was, quote, totally obliterated and, quote, set back the program for years. So if you agree that there's 960 pounds of uranium enriched and that Iran's nuclear program was totally obliterated, how can those two things be true? Okay, let's talk about Venezuela. The Trump administration has used Venezuela's natural resources to exert control in the western..."
Testimony LEGER FERNANDEZ, TERESA
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"I agree with you. We have funded it, but you have requested that it zero out, and that shows you that there is a disconnect between what the Trump administration wants, and thank heaven that on a bipartisan basis, Congress has said, we're not going to let you zero it out, but it just shows you where the priorities are of the Trump administration, of the USDA, that they would zero this out, and it has an"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Fairfax County, Virginia: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Pol...
house Judiciary Committee · May 14, 2026
"to beat up on Fairfax County for some reason, but in terms of the specific terrible case we're going to talk about today, we're going to hear about this Abdul Jalloh, the Sierra Leone national, who's accused of brutally murdering Ms. Minter's daughter, Stephanie. He was actually in ICE custody from 2018 through 2019, during the first Trump administration, before they released him back into the public. As I understand it, I want to get to the bottom of that report. Why was he not removed back to..."
Testimony MURRAY, PATTY
Hearings to examine advancing the mission, focusing on evaluating the ...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"It's led to breakthroughs like the pacemaker, the first successful liver transplant, the nicotine patch, and CT scanning. But I'm not sure that the Trump administration has that same appreciation, and I'm very concerned by the actions by this administration that have demoralized a lot of our VA research staff and created instability in research funding and really put up barriers that has slowed the research process. On the very first day of the Trump administration, all VA research staff became..."
Testimony WICKER, ROGER F.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Catherine Dillon, of Maryland, ...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"But now we can say that Kevin is one of the State Department's most experienced and knowledgeable experts on Asia, with a cumulative 15 years at the department. In the first Trump administration, Kevin was a key part of the negotiating team with regard to North Korea, equipping him with intimate knowledge of one of the world's most dangerous situations. When Kevin returned to the State Department in the second Trump administration, he hit the ground running. Listen to"
Testimony JULIE MARGETTA MORGAN
Hearings to examine the affordability agenda.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"calling affordability a hoax or a fake word and confessing that he does not think about Americans' financial situations, families are dealing every single day with the cost of living crisis that Donald Trump promised he would fix. From his first days in office, President Trump has gone back on his campaign promises, layering one price hike on top of another. Starting on so-called Liberation Day last April, the Trump administration set up a series of tariffs that have cost American consumers an..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Unfortunately, these successes are now clouded by the destruction and the chaos that the Trump administration has caused for our food supply. Within their first few weeks in office, the Trump administration indiscriminately fired experts at the FDA, including 89 people in the Human Food Program with specific expertise in nutrition, infant formula, and food and chemical safety. The deputy commissioner of that program, Jim Jones, resigned just a few days after noting that the terminations were..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Renewal of USPTO Fee Setting Authority: Giving Full Effect to the Ame...
house Judiciary Committee · Sep 2, 2026
"Did you ever act as a lawyer or a representative for anyone in your capacity as director? Two months into the Trump administration, Trump's Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, fired every member of the PPAC and TPAC, the Patent and Trademark Advisory"
Testimony DAVIDSON, WARREN
Hybrid Warfare in Europe Against U.S. Interests: Moscow and Beijing’s ...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Dec 16, 2025
"Thank you, Chairman. I'd like to applaud the Trump administration, President Trump's administration, for their pro-peace agenda, especially in Eastern Europe. The Russia-Ukraine war has been a humanitarian tragedy where millions have died and been"
Hearing The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget.
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 16, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
MENENDEZ, ROBERT "Okay, I'll answer the question for you. Gas is up a dollar per gallon since January and diesel prices are now over five dollars per gallon. Electricity prices have risen as much as 13% nationwide since President Trump took office. Inflation tripled last month on the record gas spike due to the President's war with Iran. So I would give you an F, as I believe most Americans who are getting crushed by rising prices would. Let's talk about how we got here. Mr. Wright, following the Trump administration's and congressional Republicans' illegal war in Iran, the Trump administration granted..."
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
GARCIA, ROBERT "we would not have all of these officers with all this illegal behavior on Minnesota streets. And we should remember that the Trump administration tried to use Operation Metro Surge as leverage to seize Minnesota's voter rolls. The Trump administration was never serious about addressing fraud in Minnesota. Instead, they've been interested in election conspiracy theories and terrorizing kids. And they've accused the governor and attorney general of covering up fraud only to investigate them and turn up actually no"
Hearing H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H.R. 8884 – Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act; H. Res....
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_19 "The presumption is if you own a business, you must be engaged in illicit finance. So it's had problems in the court, and for that reason, the Trump administration halted the application of the previous administration's rule, and they said we're going to more narrowly apply it to foreign ownership interests, and that's what this does. The Trump administration codifies that policy so that FinCEN can focus on genuine national security concerns. This was brought into this world through the NDAA, and it's fitting that we bring it out through the"
Hearing H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2027; H.R. 7726 – Stop Child Care...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
NEGUSE, JOE "with more transparency surrounding how they are compensated and they believed progress was being made. AFB looks forward to reminding the administration, the Trump administration, during the public comment period, that farmers come"
Testimony SPEAKER_20
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"This is fake stone. But this seeks to preclude workers from being able to sue for injuries when they are working to cut this material so that it can be sold to consumers. And you know, I've often said that in this committee, nothing comes to this committee if it has not been approved by the Trump administration, Donald Trump at the head of it. And in fact, this committee is known to be putting forward legislation as directed by Donald Trump. And this legislation may fit the bill, because one of..."
Testimony WATERS, MAXINE
Strengthening the American Economy: Promoting Growth, Opportunity, and...
house Financial Services Committee · Sep 2, 2026
"Americans are delaying buying homes and building wealth because they simply cannot afford to get ahead under this administration. But not everyone is struggling, not everybody. The Trump family is now worth roughly $100 billion, fueled by crypto schemes, cashing in while Trump occupies the White House. Trump, who failed at running an actual casino, is making gambling great again through prediction markets. His son, Don Jr., has financial interest in both prediction market platforms, Kaoshi, and..."
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Hopefully it's not going to take us that long here in the United States to reclaim our government. But the point you made, the point Mr. Davis made, is very significant that community organizations are having to fill in the gaps at food banks, in education, in one area after another throughout our states for what the Trump administration, the Trump regime is failing to provide. All the cuts they're doing in order to fund their foreign wars and their tax breaks for billionaires. And this is part..."
Testimony MCGARVEY, MORGAN
“AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"And this is an issue I don't want to see get political, but you mentioned the importance of NIST. I have to point out that this administration, the Trump administration, has fired over 700 NIST"
Testimony RANDALL, EMILY
Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackl...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"In addition to efforts by states and tribes at the local level, though, we need more federal action. And instead, as we have heard today, this administration, the Trump administration, has cut programs, delayed grant dollars, eliminated grants, and caused the loss of program officers through DOJ and other efforts. Federal agencies serving public safety and victims, services, and tribal nations have to provide the full funding for the programs needed in order to uphold trust and treaty..."
Testimony MAGAZINER, SETH
“The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Co...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"to China to help power their AI, which can be used to attack us? And so for over a year now, every cybersecurity panel that's come before this subcommittee, I've asked, does anyone here think it is a good idea for the administration, the Trump administration, to be allowing the sale of these advanced chips to China? And if so,"
Testimony NEGUSE, JOE
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"with more transparency surrounding how they are compensated and they believed progress was being made. AFB looks forward to reminding the administration, the Trump administration, during the public comment period, that farmers come"
Testimony PAUL, RAND
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"You think they're going to have more leverage than me and my five employees? So in the first Trump administration, President Trump did an executive order on this. We have legislation to do this and we're talking to people in the administration, but we'd appreciate help on letting people join a co-op or an association plan regardless of their"
Testimony BIGGS, ANDY
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"It undermines federal law, it increases the risk to law enforcement, it increases the risk to the person arrested, and it results in the release of removable criminal aliens back into American communities. This administration, the Trump administration, the Nome administration, is enforcing the tools Congress provided. We expect cooperation, not"
Testimony PETERS, GARY C.
An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"This is the type of vest that can be easily purchased by anyone and used to basically impersonate an officer. In fact, last year, this administration, the Trump administration's FBI, released a bulletin entitled, and I'm going to put this in the record without objection, Mr. Chairman, criminal actors impersonate ICE agents to commit violent"
Testimony MARKEY, EDWARD J.
Hearings to examine growing the small business agricultural economy.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Jan 14, 2026
"up over last year, coffee's up 20%, beef's up 16%, bananas are up 6.5%, food prices went up 3.1% in 2025 in the Trump administration. And Trump keeps saying that affordability is a fake word, but it's not a fake word for"
Testimony ERNST, JONI
Hearings to examine Trump's regulatory rollback, focusing on saving Am...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"So yes, the mandate can be very, very costly, but I do hope that as a Congress or as an administration that we can all work together to find some reasonable solutions to help our small businesses in all of those areas. So following the bureaucratic nightmare created by the former administration, the Trump administration has been really working very hard to slash a lot of the regulations and red tape that are out there that affect small businesses and make it cheaper and simpler for these small..."
Testimony KLOBUCHAR, AMY
Hearings to examine a review of the USDA reorganization proposal.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jul 30, 2025
"Mr. Baden, I know you will be surprised at this, but I am not interested in re-litigating the pandemic right now, which spanned two administrations, the Trump administration, part one, and the Biden"
Testimony GEN. JOHN "JACK" M. KEANE
Protecting American Interests in a Convergent Global Threat Environmen...
house Armed Services Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"artillery ammunition. And we managed to build our first new small arms plant since 1941 in a place called Lake City, Missouri. This is .50 caliber and below. So the war in Ukraine has truly emphasized that many of our facilities are outdated, and some of them actually are not as safe as they should be because of the processes that they're using. We've got to fix it, and we've got to continue the funding that has begun by two administrations, the Trump administration and Well, from my..."
Hearing H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_20 "You can't believe anything they have to say. This legislation allows the Trump administration to deport green card holders if a Trump administration official decides that the green card holder is or has been a member of a criminal gang. And there's no due process for that determination, just like there's no due process for these speed boats. When did it become illegal to operate a speed boat in the Caribbean or in the Eastern"
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
COMER, JAMES "And I'm pretty confident this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Trump administration has taken a whole-of-government approach to rooting out fraud. The Trump administration has already uncovered at least $9 billion in fraud. These criminals have stolen taxpayer dollars from all Americans to fund lavish cars, homes, and vacations here in the U.S. and"
Hearing “The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
ROSS, DEBORAH K. "not last session when we had these hearings, today, the greatest threat to free speech in America comes not from the media, not from big tech, but from Donald Trump himself. And he has just made that plain. You don't even have to look around or have an investigative report. He's just telling us what he's doing. So this hearing today, unless we talk about the Trump administration as well, is not about protecting the First Amendment. Rather, it's a distraction from the fact that the Trump administration is actively working to chill speech, intimidate reporters, manipulate the flow of..."
Hearing A New Beginning for Colombia
house Western Hemisphere Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
STANTON, GREG "The United States and Colombia have long shared a partnership built on mutual respect, democratic values, and cooperation to advance security and prosperity throughout the hemisphere. Unfortunately, by making reckless threats to use military force on Colombian soil, the Trump administration did little to keep the U.S.-Colombia partnership on track during President Petro's term. Rather than build on historic cooperation, the Trump administration allowed its political hostility toward President Petro to dictate its Colombia policy. It treated disagreements with one president as reason to..."
Hearing Oversight Hearing - U.S. Small Business Administration
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
DELAURO, ROSA L. "more than a 50% rise in filings during the first half of 2026, compared to the same period last year. When President Trump launched his ill-fated trade war, it was small businesses who bore the brunt of it. Many large importers were able to absorb the shock, passing price hikes onto consumers, stockpiling inputs in advance, or working their Washington connections to secure a carve-out for their product from the Trump administration. For small businesses, those were not available options. When the Supreme Court struck down these tariffs as an illegal overreach by the Trump administration,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Daniel Mack Traynor, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Angela...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "Why did you volunteer to preside over these cases in Minnesota? And in light of your embrace of the Trump administration's position, even when judges have ruled against the administration policy more than 10,000 times, why should we feel or have confidence you can be a neutral arbiter when it comes to presiding over challenges to the Trump administration action? But the bottom line on the issue of habeas corpus, the issue of detention, why is it you're such an outlier when it comes to Trump"
Hearing H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act; H. Res. 1335 – Condemning actors seeking to...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SCANLON, MARY GAY "All right. Thank you. I'm glad to hear that is a priority because most of the FBI and DOJ folks who work on that have been pulled off to do immigration work. But I think it is abundantly clear to anyone who's paying attention that the number one source of fraud, waste, and abuse in our federal government today is the Trump administration, whether it's shady crypto investments, insider trading on the stock market and prediction markets, or massive pay-to-play schemes for pardons and dropped enforcement cases. The Trump administration has ushered in blatant and open corruption in this White..."
Hearing Strengthening the American Economy: Promoting Growth, Opportunity, and Prosperity
house Financial Services Committee · Sep 2, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
WATERS, MAXINE "Americans are delaying buying homes and building wealth because they simply cannot afford to get ahead under this administration. But not everyone is struggling, not everybody. The Trump family is now worth roughly $100 billion, fueled by crypto schemes, cashing in while Trump occupies the White House. Trump, who failed at running an actual casino, is making gambling great again through prediction markets. His son, Don Jr., has financial interest in both prediction market platforms, Kaoshi, and PolyMarkets, which have become safe places for insider trading tied to Trump administration..."
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BIGGS, ANDY "It undermines federal law, it increases the risk to law enforcement, it increases the risk to the person arrested, and it results in the release of removable criminal aliens back into American communities. This administration, the Trump administration, the Nome administration, is enforcing the tools Congress provided. We expect cooperation, not"
Hearing Countering Houthi Terrorism: Protecting U.S. Interests and Security in the Red Sea
house Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee · Sep 1, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BAUMGARTNER, MICHAEL "to look at counterterrorism operations in that part of the world last year, and actually our direct action versus the Houthis last year was significant in improving the situation. So this is not a international aid issue. But to begin with, if we had to look back, was it the wrong policy to pull the Emiratis off of their offensive military actions in the previous administration, in the first Trump administration? And that was largely because of a humanitarian"
Testimony MARKEY, EDWARD J.
Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"And thank you, Chairman Young. Thank you for your partnership. Today is the fourth hearing in this committee series celebrating small businesses and the central role they have played in our nation's history. Again, I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for making this an inclusive committee, bipartisan in nature, that has involved all of our members and given us a chance to showcase all of our states. Sadly, this spirit of bipartisanship that is in this committee is not shared by Donald Trump and..."
Testimony HILL, J. FRENCH
Strengthening the American Economy: Promoting Growth, Opportunity, and...
house Financial Services Committee · Sep 2, 2026
"the conditions for growth, not barriers to growth. Through our efforts, through budget reconciliation, we have tackled increasing real take-home pay for our working families, encouraged capital investment, while prioritizing federal spending and reducing waste, fraud, and abuse. To complement those important successful policies, today's hearing examines the economic impact of House Republicans and the Trump administration's financial services policies and regulatory reform efforts. We'll also..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE KRISTIN ROBBINS
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026
"Just last month, our committee held a hearing on credible allegations of fraud in two new areas, adult day services and assisted living. First U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, the leading prosecutor in these cases from the Biden administration and the Trump administration, says the fraud could be an astronomical $9 billion. In the face of mounting reports and literal criminal indictments and convictions, the Walls administration has repeatedly and publicly denied or downplayed the"
Testimony MS. ZONGYUAN ZOE LIU
Beijing’s Poison Pipeline: The CCP’s Role in the Fentanyl Crisis
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"The question then is how the United States can turn that responsibility into measurable Chinese measures. So the Biden administration and the Trump administration used different tools, but not on separate tracks. Biden rebuilt the counter-narcotic channel after San Francisco, giving Washington a way to press Beijing on chemicals and enforcement, but that channel had a limited time to prove durable"
Testimony FROST, MAXWELL
“Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relations...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 14, 2026
"there was some work done before you were sworn in, before you got the actual job. So I have some questions around that, Director. Did you start developing these regulations or these changes under the Biden administration or the Trump administration? Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"enforcement officers were diverted from their regular roles in investigating and prosecuting crimes to assist simply in immigration enforcement. An investigation from the New York Times found that from February through April of last year, Homeland Security investigators worked 33% fewer hours on child exploitation cases than they had in prior years. The result of this overwhelming focus on immigration enforcement is that DOJ quietly closed a stunning 23,000 criminal investigations in the first..."
Testimony MS. ALLISON BALL
“Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Ru...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Apr 15, 2026
"In August of 2023, my predecessor began a special examination at the request of the Biden administrators, HHS, OIG, in conjunction with three other states. When I took office, I saw this examination through both under the Biden administration and the Trump administration. This exam revealed that Kentucky paid $836 million to managed care organizations for the same Medicaid beneficiaries whose coverage was also being paid for by another"
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine the nomination of Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, t...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"Thank you. We talked before about just trying to get information on time and such. In the transition that happened between the Biden administration and the Trump administration, data fell behind, and it fell really behind. It was one of my complaints that I had with Mayorkas that was sometimes two or three weeks late on releasing normal data information, just how many encounters were happening at the border, how many arrests, some of those things on"
Testimony LALOTA, NICK
Budget Hearing – Office of Management and Budget
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 4, 2025
"In your experience, scores, predictions by the CBO, JCT, how have they been, sir? Thinking back to the first Trump administration and President Trump's 2017 tax cuts and jobs act, how would you rate the estimates by the CBO and JCT? And about how much in revenue were they off by, do you"
Testimony MCBATH, LUCY
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"And since then, Rodney has lived a law-abiding life and has a green card application that's now pending. And no administration, including the first Trump administration, has sought to remove Rodney from this country. In January 2025, he entered ICE detention, and his health has deteriorated quickly since"
Testimony BAUMGARTNER, MICHAEL
Countering Houthi Terrorism: Protecting U.S. Interests and Security in...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Sep 1, 2026
"to look at counterterrorism operations in that part of the world last year, and actually our direct action versus the Houthis last year was significant in improving the situation. So this is not a international aid issue. But to begin with, if we had to look back, was it the wrong policy to pull the Emiratis off of their offensive military actions in the previous administration, in the first Trump administration? And that was largely because of a humanitarian"
Testimony PETERS, GARY C.
Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"including the need to invest in sustainable domestic manufacturing capabilities for critical medical supplies, build the infrastructure needed to surge testing capacity for infectious diseases, and robustly fund public health emergency preparedness and responses across all levels of government. Unfortunately, multiple administrations, including the current Trump administration, have failed to fund or to reform our health preparedness. This is something that I would hope the committee in the..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE DANIEL SHAPIRO
Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the A...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"authority and broad focus on a range of countries that could be part of this expansion of regional integration. It has not yet been appointed, not in the Biden Administration, not in the Trump Administration. I think it is"
Testimony COONS, CHRISTOPHER A.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Joshua D. Dunlap, of Maine, to ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 30, 2025
"Mr. Tong, what did you discuss at the meeting, and what sort of questions were you asked? As far as I can tell, during both the Biden administration and the first Trump administration, personal meetings by the President of the United States with circuit court nominees were exceedingly"
Testimony DELAURO, ROSA L.
Oversight Hearing - U.S. Small Business Administration
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"much, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Hoyer, Administrator Loeffler, welcome. Whether the Trump administration acknowledges it or not, there was a cost-of-living crisis confronting the American people. Food, housing, health care, gasoline, the price of just about everything is going up. The economic outlook remains uncertain, jobs are fewer and far between, American families are clamoring for relief, but this administration does not have any plan to provide it. The only proposal they have put..."
Testimony HUFFMAN, JARED
H.R. 9436 – To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 to exte...
house Rules Committee · Aug 31, 2026
"I want to correct my friend from Arkansas on one thing. It is true the Trump administration has added 55 mining projects to the FAST-41 dashboard, but there were six, there are six right now, left over from the Biden administration. Now, why did the Biden administration only have six and Trump has 55? Because they were prioritizing. They were looking at projects that actually did involve critical minerals, that did advance our national security interest. And what this legislation does is tie..."
Testimony PETERS, GARY C.
Business meeting to markup S.1759, to allow for the operation of civil...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"consumer experience, and most importantly, to save lives. However, in addition to these benefits, connected vehicle technologies that are subject to control by our adversaries are a threat to national security. That's why in 2024, I pushed the Bureau of Industry and Security to write the Connected Vehicle Rule, which was ultimately published by the Biden administration and finalized by the Trump administration. And that's why I strongly support the Connected Vehicle Security Act, which..."
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Daniel Mack Traynor, of North D...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Overwhelmingly, district court judges appointed by both Republicans and Democrats have held that mandatory detention is illegal and unconstitutional. According to Politico's analysis, judges have ruled against the Trump administration's policy policy of mandatory detention more than 10,000 times, and even a majority of Trump-appointed judges have ruled against the administration's position. You are an extreme outlier on this issue, which you've even acknowledged in several of your opinions. In..."
Testimony NEGUSE, JOE
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"Well, but you said you were offended. If you're offended by it, why not tell HHS? You know what? One of the worst frauds in TANF history that the Biden administration went after and that the Trump administration rescinded, and now supposedly they've suggested it's in review. It's in limbo, right? This ongoing limbo. If you are so offended, you know what? Why don't we do it together, Mr. Smith? Why don't you and I partner up and we will tell, we'll send a letter to HHS saying, you know what? We..."
Testimony LEGER FERNANDEZ, TERESA
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"And, Leader Jeffries, thank you for bringing forward the amendments that focused on health care and having the discussions about where are your priorities and actually taking a look at the corruption, you know, the rail-off. I love how you illiterate, you know, because it's true, right? Their priorities are the rail-off and the rail-connected. And we had a discussion earlier tonight about the amount of campaign contributions that are flowing to the Trump administration to run these private..."
Testimony SMITH, ADRIAN
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"I would say, broadly speaking, we just don't have a very good handle on where the dollars are going, much less we also lack the authority to go after the fraud that is out there. So as I spoke about earlier, President Biden, his administration requested this same authority that the Trump administration has requested that overall helps us make sure that the money gets to the folks who need it the most. That's what TANF is"
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Taxpayer Assi...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"And my amendment would reverse that, that shameful decision, and make Direct File law of the land. We also cannot stand by when the Trump administration just cut a deal giving Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card for potentially cheating on his taxes. No other taxpayer ever has gotten this kind of a deal, and a federal judge has already called it"
Testimony CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE
Hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annu...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"And the only reason you are is because you know why? Who the administration was prior to that? Was the Trump administration. They didn't go through this whole-scale, illegally violating the appropriations"
Testimony MOSKOWITZ, JARED
U.S. Economic Security and Investment Abroad: Assessing Economic Secur...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"A lot of that has not still been fixed. After trillions of dollars were spent at the end of the Biden administration and the beginning of the first Trump administration and all these packages, a lot of the supply chain issues that still existed have not been fixed. And so we have to figure out how we are going to onshore more of that manufacturing back to the United States. That doesn't mean we can't live in a global economy, but we can't depend on foreign"
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"My name is Sarah Pierce. I'm Director of Social Policy at Third Way. Third Way has a long history of saying things that both Democrats and Republicans dislike, so let me start there. The Biden administration's border policies were inexcusable. The Trump administration's interior enforcement policies are also inexcusable. My testimony today focuses on why. I have three main points. First, sanctuary policies do not prevent ICE from enforcing federal law. Every jurisdiction, including..."
Testimony NEHLS, TROY E.
“The Monitoring Racket: The Grift that Keeps on Giving”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"And that's unfortunate. And I have more questions for you, but I'm going to yield back to the chairman. I guess we'll have a second round. So I'll get back to you in a few minutes, but thank you. gentleman from Texas thank you again mr. chairman so this specific case this was had nothing this wasn't the consent decree this was judicial yeah yeah so there was yeah I you know you notice a lot too with this new administration the Civil Rights Division under the Trump administration he's closing..."
Testimony ROSS, DEBORAH K.
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"unchecked. Reports show that Trump and his allies are pressuring tech companies, making sure their voices are amplified while dissenting voices are drowned out. If you didn't like it during the Biden administration, you have to condemn it during the Trump administration. Facebook, also known as Meta, has gutted their content moderation and safety teams, rolled back hate speech standards. And when Trump was asked if the decision by Meta was a direct response to Trump's threats to Mr. Zuckerberg..."
Testimony MEEKS, GREGORY W.
United Nations Accountability and Reform: Advancing an America First F...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"can solve these problems alone. American leadership at the U.N. has always been about ensuring those debates and decisions serve the American people. And that is why I'm deeply concerned by this administration's burn it down approach. Rather than strengthening America's leadership within the U.N. system, this administration has surrendered it. Since January 2025, the Trump administration has withdrawn the U.S. from 69 different entities and U.N. agencies, including the very U.N. body..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. ...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I think you know there's going to be opposition. And so we can continue with considering the bills, but I can assure you they're not going anywhere. Mr. Chairman, this bill would transfer the oversight of federal student aid, including Pell Grant student loans, loan repayment, public service loan forgiveness, default and delinquency from the Department of Education to the Department of Treasury. Since the beginning of the Trump administration, both agencies have been decimated by President..."
Testimony CRAIG E. LEEN
Hearings to examine the nominations of James Andrew Crowell IV, and St...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"No, I wasn't. Forgive me if I wasn't trying to be that specific. The advice that I received from the administration at the time, which was the first Trump administration, was that we were, Executive Order 13950 was challenged in"
Testimony MENENDEZ, ROBERT
Nuclear Permitting Reform: Legislation to Advance Efficient Licensing
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"agency by choice or were forced out, and the agency has been struggling to rehire staff ever since. A ProPublica article details DOGE's involvement at NRC and cites several instances where career staff at NRC were concerned about changes being made at the regulator. Here are a couple of examples. Steve Cohen, who was leading the DOGE charge at NRC, said the goal was to make the agency into a quote, rubber stamp for the Trump administration and dismiss safety concerns raised by NRC staff...."
Testimony ISSA, DARRELL
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"and that has been going on under Republican and Democratic administrations for years. What's unique about the Trump administration this time is that you and President Trump have managed to reduce the backlog of people seeking that for the first time in decades. You are getting ahead of that tremendous backlog that caused, for better or worse, the release of millions of people with little pieces of paper"
Testimony GARCIA, ROBERT
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"here to be with us today to witness this hearing, but also in solidarity of the horrors and terrors that are happening, not just in Minnesota, but that have happened across the country. Now, we look forward to hearing directly on what life in Minnesota has been like thanks to the Trump administration's actions. And the truth is that Donald Trump and Republicans have cut billions of dollars, billions of dollars from health care and food assistance. That is a reality. Instead, with that money,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"The Trump administration has blatantly disregarded some of our most sacred privacy laws that protect American-sensitive social security data. So it's hard to imagine that this administration wouldn't try to skirt some of the other requirements for demonstration projects. For example, current law requires that SSA must obtain the voluntary written consent of anyone who participates in a demonstration. But it's entirely up to the administration to determine what it looks like. Is this Trump..."
Testimony SYKES, EMILIA STRONG
Balancing Biotechnology Innovation and Biosecurity: Securing U.S. Lead...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Sep 16, 2026
"thousands of high-paying jobs in Ohio, many of them concentrated in the Akron-Cleveland region and leading at leading institutions such as the University of Akron. A recent survey found that Ohio's life sciences industry employed nearly 65,000 people earning average annual wages exceeding six figures. Biotechnology is an engine of growth for our local economy and offers tremendous opportunities for working families within our region. But America's leadership in technology is not a given. There..."
Testimony HONORABLE ROSE E. GOTTEMOELLER
Hearings to examine arms race.
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Dec 10, 2025
"Deployed warheads, of course. And now I'm coming to your question. Whatever that means. Yes, I'm coming to your question about the non-strategic warheads. And I really was very much admiring the move of the Trump administration during his first term in office when President Trump got President Putin to agree to a freeze on all warheads, deployed and non-deployed, strategic and"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine maritime security in Africa, focusing on assessing...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Dec 10, 2025
"Deployed warheads, of course. And now I'm coming to your question. Whatever that means. Yes, I'm coming to your question about the non-strategic warheads. And I really was very much admiring the move of the Trump administration during his first term in office when President Trump got President Putin to agree to a freeze on all warheads, deployed and non-deployed, strategic and"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"This broad portfolio is part of America's balance sheet. Tens of trillions of dollars worth of assets that belong to the American people and should be responsibly managed, conserved and put to use for their benefit, according to the law. Well, prior administrations have handcuffed prosperity and locked Americans out of their land and water. The Trump administration is doing the opposite, responsibly unlocking access and unlocking prosperity through recreation and sustainable use, including by..."
Testimony DOUG BURGUM
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"This broad portfolio is part of America's balance sheet. Tens of trillions of dollars worth of assets that belong to the American people and should be responsibly managed, conserved and put to use for their benefit, according to the law. Well, prior administrations have handcuffed prosperity and locked Americans out of their land and water. The Trump administration is doing the opposite, responsibly unlocking access and unlocking prosperity through recreation and sustainable use, including by..."
Testimony ANSARI, YASSAMIN
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Fraud? At the first one, yes, fraud, because let's talk about fraud. At the first one of these ridiculous series of hearings on Minnesota, I brought up the dozens of horrific, ongoing corruption scandals in the Trump administration, but I know we're very scared of Donald Trump, so we won't be talking about those, but those are the things that we should be investigating on the Oversight Committee. Now we have another one. The Department of Justice was caught red-handed withholding explosive and..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"Just last year, the Trump administration wanted to enact one of the biggest cuts to disability benefits ever by changing the rules for disability claims. This change could have resulted in hundreds of thousands of older, severely disabled people being denied benefits. And after we spoke up, they backed down from this disastrous plan. And now, our Republican colleagues want to grant the Trump administration the very demonstration authority to gut SSDI that President Trump has been begging for...."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
Countering Houthi Terrorism: Protecting U.S. Interests and Security in...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Sep 1, 2026
"Is that what you're- Right, but the Biden administration was two years ago, so you're saying the Trump administration is not supporting the Yemeni government in its fight against the Houthis? Is that your testimony? But who's in charge"
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Hearings to examine seniors and the workforce.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"Now Senate Democrats have fought back, and we have forced the Trump administration to reverse course on some of their most harmful policies, but this fight is not over. Social Security Administration is still facing a customer service crisis, and the Trump administration and the Republicans are still looking for ways to cut Social Security. So their current approach is make Americans work until they drop"
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Hearings to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council's Annual...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Feb 5, 2026
"the cops who go after white-collar crime. Meanwhile, middle-class families get the short end of the stick. Unemployment is growing and prices are up, but American families can't even get the basic respect of a straight answer from Team Trump. The president lies about prices being lower when every family has walked into a grocery store knows that prices are up. Secretary Besant tells workers that the Trump administration has created a blue-collar boom, while Donald Trump's own Labor Department..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesota, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, John Crews, of...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "We are, we are... Inflation now on an annualized basis is significantly lower than that pace. So about 5%? Does that sound about right? 5% more or less during the Biden administration. No, during the Trump administration. During the Trump administration, no, it's lower than that. Lower than that. Generally, the rule for economics is that, and this is an oversimplification, is that inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few"
Hearing “Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America's Northern Border”
house Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_01 "Okay, but you don't know how many of your agents have been taken off child exploitation cases to do immigration enforcement? Well, let's try this. The New York Times reported last year that under the Trump administration, the second Trump administration, HSI agents worked 33 percent fewer hours on child exploitation cases because they had been reassigned to work immigration. Does that number sound plausible to"
Hearing "Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
CRAIG, ANGIE "is unstable. In the past year, the president has asked, who would ever sign a thing like this? This might surprise the current Trump administration, but USMCA was negotiated by the first Trump administration and signed by President Trump. And while USMCA may not be perfect, there are certainly improvements that we should make. It's still vital for American farmers, ranchers, foresters, and businesses. In our continued pursuit to feed, clothe, and fuel the world, Mexico and Canada remain our top agriculture trade partners. Our relationships with these allies put money in the pockets of family..."
Hearing "Increasing Demand and Opportunities for Homegrown Products Here and Abroad"
house Agriculture Committee · Sep 16, 2026 · Transcript
SALINAS, ANDREA "stop an 83% drop in sales for Oregon wine. Is that correct? Correct. That is correct. Okay. So, has the Trump administration, or did the Trump administration, in any way that you know of, work with the wine industry or any of these"
Hearing Community Care Network Next Generation: One Trillion Dollars of Oversight
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript
MCGARVEY, MORGAN "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate you all being here. I mean, look, my focus is the veterans. It's the focus of this committee. It's my focus. We have to do what's best for our veterans. They put on a uniform, they served, they sacrificed for us, and we promised we'd take care of them. So when I think about this, I want our veterans who need it and want it to get their care through the VA. I know the VA can't necessarily provide every single service available, but we've got to have a VA that functions. And so when we're here talking about these community care networks right now, I want to..."
Hearing Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on America 250 and American citizenship.
senate Constitution Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "to return blue slips for some nominees. Now the rest of the story. For the past 18 months, the committee has considered nominees to fill dozens of judicial vacancies in red states that Republican senators held open for years by refusing to return blue slips during the administration. Many Senate Republicans, though not all, engaged in unprecedented obstruction despite good-faith efforts by the Biden White House to fill vacancies. Consider this. During the Trump administration, Senate Democrats returned – the first Trump administration, Senate Democrats returned 130 blue slips for Trump..."
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: • H.R. 177 (Rep. McClintock), “Yosemite National Park Equal Access and Fairness Act” • H.R. 3717 (Rep. Harder), “Golden...
house Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee · Sep 16, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_20 "Importantly, the programmatic biop, ITS, and technical assistance process in that instance that we modeled off of was defended by the Obama administration, the first Trump administration, the Biden administration, and now the second Trump administration, and has been endorsed in the cooling water case by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second"
Hearing Hearings to examine the posture of United States Northern Command and United States Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 19, 2026 · Transcript
WICKER, ROGER F. "So expect that question. I hope the Trump administration for—I commend the Trump administration for the decisive action it has taken to reassert U.S. interest near the homeland, including the"
Hearing FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
CASTRO, JOAQUIN "Do you agree that these cartels, which the administration has designated as foreign terrorist organizations, should not get any weapons from the United States? Well, then, I guess that's why I'm confused, because in September 2025, you rescinded the April 30th, 2024 BIS regulations that added safeguards for the export of firearms and stopped notifying the Congress about exports of these weapons, and the Trump administration's State Department, if the Trump administration's State Department and Secretary Rubio are trying to help Mexico and countries like Haiti track and stop these firearms..."
Hearing American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "certainly to our ranking member, Ms. Castor, for all the work that she spent on this over the years. The two of you really did a lot of the work on this and I do want to recognize that as well, as well as Chairman Guthrie. But let me get back to this issue. So when we talk about the issue before us today, I just want to stress that American ingenuity and inventiveness are things that we can all celebrate. Over the course of our 250-year history, America has been the birthplace of countless innovations from telephones to airplanes to the technology that underlies the Internet. And all of us..."
Hearing “Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act”
house Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "They've called no hearings on the Ellison's corrupt Paramount Skydance Warner Brothers Discovery merger or the deep corruption at the heart of the Paramount Skydance merger. They've not called a single Trump administration antitrust official to come testify before this subcommittee about the political destabilization and saturation of the antitrust process of review in the administration. In fact, the only Trump-era antitrust official to appear before this committee, this entire Congress, was a Democratic called witness, Roger Alford, who was fired by the Trump administration for refusing to..."
Hearing “Workforce Rewired: Modern Apprenticeships for a Modern Economy”
house Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
COURTNEY, JOE "again, take their trade and their families or whatever to different parts of the country. Unfortunately, that sort of seems to be sort of the crux of the debate that's been going on over the last four or five years with the first Trump administration, Biden administration, and now we're back again with the Trump administration. So Mr. Ladd, in terms of your experience working in the Office of Apprenticeships, I mean, this issue of quality standards is not excessive government. It's really to make sure that the system actually has integrity, and maybe you could talk about that for a little"
Hearing “Who Gets the Scholarship? How the Global Shift in College Sports Affects Americans”
house Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee · Sep 16, 2026 · Transcript
MR. AARON AMENT, M.A., J.D. "Previous administrations attempted to halt the flow of federal dollars for for-profit and career-oriented programs whose graduates didn't earn enough to pay back their loans through regulations known as the gainful employment rules. The Trump administration gutted those efforts. At a time when Americans are struggling to afford their daily lives, the Trump administration is poised to resume seizing distressed borrowers' tax refunds, Social Security benefits, and their wages. The administration has gutted oversight of schools and relief for defrauded"
Hearing "Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, and Legal Abuses in America’s Schools"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
BONAMICI, SUZANNE "A study from the Trevor Project found that anti-transgender laws cause up to 72% increase in suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary youth. 72%. That's unacceptable and it's avoidable. So I'm going to ask you, Mr. Smith, why is it important for schools to support and protect all students, including transgender students in schools? And I have another question, so I'll go with that one first. Thank you for your question, Representative And Mr. Smith, the Trump administration is threatening to block all federal funding. We heard the concerns, the funding concerns here. The Trump..."
Hearing Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the Commissioner of Social Security, Frank J. Bisignano
house Social Security Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
CAREY, MIKE "Then the bill was passed a year later, signed into law under President Biden, but it was the current Trump administration that implemented this, and I just want to make sure I'm correct. It was the Trump administration that implemented the Social Security Fairness Act. Am I correct? And I want to thank you for clarifying that so that everybody understands the role that you"
Hearing Hearings to examine leveling the playing field, focusing on restoring America's edge in generic drug manufacturing.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Sep 23, 2026 · Transcript
SCOTT, RICK "researchers, and manufacturers about their concerns and how it's putting our families at risk every single day. One thing is clear, there's an urgent need to address our dependence on communist China and India for drugs, and that starts with making safe medicines here in America. This week, the Trump administration announced a great step towards further investing in American drug manufacturing. I'm glad to note the Trump administration is taking action. Now we need to see more American companies getting contracts with federal agencies to make drugs here in America. That's the test. We need to..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Barbera Thornhill, of North Carolina, to be Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, with...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
KAINE, TIM "Great. Thank you. And Mr. Brown, I'm not going to leave you out. I mean, I didn't want you to feel disappointed, so I'm going to ask a question of you too, and then I'll yield it back to the chair, and I applaud – or I thank the chair for giving me some grace on timing. In March, just a couple months back, I guess that's three, four months ago now, three months ago, the Associated Press reported that Equatorial Guinea – and this is a quote from the article – an authoritarian Petro state signed a secretive deal with the Trump administration and has become a transit hub for deported migrants...."
Hearing H.R. 10357, H.R. 10334, H.R. 6130, H.R. 5439, H.R. 4093, H.R. 10346, and H.R. 10356
house Ways and Means Committee · Sep 16, 2026 · Transcript
SÁNCHEZ, LINDA T. "to curb the imports of goods made with forced labor from the DRC? I mean, that would be logical. That would be rational, because that would be something that would actually address the problem. We can't also ignore the context of this bill. The Trump administration negotiated backroom critical minerals deal with the DRC in the midst of an ongoing violent conflict. House Republicans refused to call out the Trump administration for the impact on child labor then, and they're to do anything about it now. At minimum, at minimum, this bill should mandate transparency on the critical minerals..."
Hearing Various Measures
house Small Business Committee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
VELÁZQUEZ, NYDIA M. "Unfortunately, this is not the case. Instead, the Trump administration is bilking taxpayers to bankroll a billion-dollar ballroom. And rather than lowering costs and making life better for small businesses, the Trump administration is making life harder and more expensive. They have ripped health care from millions, cut food assistance for kids, veterans, and seniors, and raised prices on everything from groceries to"
Hearing Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U.S. Provider Landscape
house Health Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "afford the deductible, you're going back to the days when there was no ACA, where Americans were skipping care that they need and instead come to health care providers sicker and more desperate and it's going to leave millions of Americans buried in medical debt. That's the other thing that will force even more providers to close their doors. And the Trump administration and Republicans are doubling down on Medicaid cuts at all. Also, we heard this yesterday in the hearing, in their latest crusade, the Trump administration has acted to withhold and defer about 30 percent of all federal..."
Hearing “Sanctuary Policies, Tragic Consequences”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Sep 1, 2026 · Transcript
BIGGS, ANDY "illegal alien arrested. Without objection. ICE arrests illegal alien truck driver who critically injured American man in semi-truck accident. Without objection. ICE lodges detainers for criminal illegal aliens arrested for trafficking more than 300 pounds of cocaine hidden in a Indiana. Without objection. Deadly semi-trailer crash in California renews federal criticism of immigrant truck drivers. Without objection. Trump administration says driver in Florida crash was in U.S. illegally false California policy. Without objection. California revokes 17,000 commercial driver's licenses for..."
Hearing Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests and Outlook for the 2026 Wildfire Year.”
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
LEGER FERNANDEZ, TERESA "I agree with you. We have funded it, but you have requested that it zero out, and that shows you that there is a disconnect between what the Trump administration wants, and thank heaven that on a bipartisan basis, Congress has said, we're not going to let you zero it out, but it just shows you where the priorities are of the Trump administration, of the USDA, that they would zero this out, and it has an"
Hearing “Fairfax County, Virginia: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · May 14, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "to beat up on Fairfax County for some reason, but in terms of the specific terrible case we're going to talk about today, we're going to hear about this Abdul Jalloh, the Sierra Leone national, who's accused of brutally murdering Ms. Minter's daughter, Stephanie. He was actually in ICE custody from 2018 through 2019, during the first Trump administration, before they released him back into the public. As I understand it, I want to get to the bottom of that report. Why was he not removed back to Sierra Leone when the Trump administration held him in 2018, in 2019? That is a critical question..."
Hearing Hearings to examine advancing the mission, focusing on evaluating the future of VA research.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MURRAY, PATTY "It's led to breakthroughs like the pacemaker, the first successful liver transplant, the nicotine patch, and CT scanning. But I'm not sure that the Trump administration has that same appreciation, and I'm very concerned by the actions by this administration that have demoralized a lot of our VA research staff and created instability in research funding and really put up barriers that has slowed the research process. On the very first day of the Trump administration, all VA research staff became subject to a hiring freeze and probationary firings. As a"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Catherine Dillon, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary (Educational and Cultural Affairs), and Yeouk...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript
WICKER, ROGER F. "But now we can say that Kevin is one of the State Department's most experienced and knowledgeable experts on Asia, with a cumulative 15 years at the department. In the first Trump administration, Kevin was a key part of the negotiating team with regard to North Korea, equipping him with intimate knowledge of one of the world's most dangerous situations. When Kevin returned to the State Department in the second Trump administration, he hit the ground running. Listen to"
Hearing Hearings to examine the affordability agenda.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
JULIE MARGETTA MORGAN "calling affordability a hoax or a fake word and confessing that he does not think about Americans' financial situations, families are dealing every single day with the cost of living crisis that Donald Trump promised he would fix. From his first days in office, President Trump has gone back on his campaign promises, layering one price hike on top of another. Starting on so-called Liberation Day last April, the Trump administration set up a series of tariffs that have cost American consumers an average of about $1,700, increasing prices on a wide variety of must-have items, from groceries,..."
Hearing Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversight of Food
house Health Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "Unfortunately, these successes are now clouded by the destruction and the chaos that the Trump administration has caused for our food supply. Within their first few weeks in office, the Trump administration indiscriminately fired experts at the FDA, including 89 people in the Human Food Program with specific expertise in nutrition, infant formula, and food and chemical safety. The deputy commissioner of that program, Jim Jones, resigned just a few days after noting that the terminations were indiscriminate, short-sighted, and showed the Trump administration is disdain for the very people..."
Hearing “Renewal of USPTO Fee Setting Authority: Giving Full Effect to the America Invents Act”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Sep 2, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "Did you ever act as a lawyer or a representative for anyone in your capacity as director? Two months into the Trump administration, Trump's Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, fired every member of the PPAC and TPAC, the Patent and Trademark Advisory"
Hearing Hybrid Warfare in Europe Against U.S. Interests: Moscow and Beijing’s Playbook
house Europe Subcommittee · Dec 16, 2025 · Transcript
DAVIDSON, WARREN "Thank you, Chairman. I'd like to applaud the Trump administration, President Trump's administration, for their pro-peace agenda, especially in Eastern Europe. The Russia-Ukraine war has been a humanitarian tragedy where millions have died and been"
Hearing H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
DOGGETT, LLOYD "Hopefully it's not going to take us that long here in the United States to reclaim our government. But the point you made, the point Mr. Davis made, is very significant that community organizations are having to fill in the gaps at food banks, in education, in one area after another throughout our states for what the Trump administration, the Trump regime is failing to provide. All the cuts they're doing in order to fund their foreign wars and their tax breaks for billionaires. And this is part of the same"
Hearing “AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
MCGARVEY, MORGAN "And this is an issue I don't want to see get political, but you mentioned the importance of NIST. I have to point out that this administration, the Trump administration, has fired over 700 NIST"
Hearing Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country”
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
RANDALL, EMILY "In addition to efforts by states and tribes at the local level, though, we need more federal action. And instead, as we have heard today, this administration, the Trump administration, has cut programs, delayed grant dollars, eliminated grants, and caused the loss of program officers through DOJ and other efforts. Federal agencies serving public safety and victims, services, and tribal nations have to provide the full funding for the programs needed in order to uphold trust and treaty"
Hearing “The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience”
house Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MAGAZINER, SETH "to China to help power their AI, which can be used to attack us? And so for over a year now, every cybersecurity panel that's come before this subcommittee, I've asked, does anyone here think it is a good idea for the administration, the Trump administration, to be allowing the sale of these advanced chips to China? And if so,"
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Health and Human Services.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
PAUL, RAND "You think they're going to have more leverage than me and my five employees? So in the first Trump administration, President Trump did an executive order on this. We have legislation to do this and we're talking to people in the administration, but we'd appreciate help on letting people join a co-op or an association plan regardless of their"
Hearing An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026 · Transcript
PETERS, GARY C. "This is the type of vest that can be easily purchased by anyone and used to basically impersonate an officer. In fact, last year, this administration, the Trump administration's FBI, released a bulletin entitled, and I'm going to put this in the record without objection, Mr. Chairman, criminal actors impersonate ICE agents to commit violent"
Hearing Hearings to examine growing the small business agricultural economy.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Jan 14, 2026 · Transcript
MARKEY, EDWARD J. "up over last year, coffee's up 20%, beef's up 16%, bananas are up 6.5%, food prices went up 3.1% in 2025 in the Trump administration. And Trump keeps saying that affordability is a fake word, but it's not a fake word for"
Hearing Hearings to examine Trump's regulatory rollback, focusing on saving Americans $907 billion and counting.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript
ERNST, JONI "So yes, the mandate can be very, very costly, but I do hope that as a Congress or as an administration that we can all work together to find some reasonable solutions to help our small businesses in all of those areas. So following the bureaucratic nightmare created by the former administration, the Trump administration has been really working very hard to slash a lot of the regulations and red tape that are out there that affect small businesses and make it cheaper and simpler for these small business owners to comply with federal regulations, and your office has been playing a key role in..."
Hearing Hearings to examine a review of the USDA reorganization proposal.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jul 30, 2025 · Transcript
KLOBUCHAR, AMY "Mr. Baden, I know you will be surprised at this, but I am not interested in re-litigating the pandemic right now, which spanned two administrations, the Trump administration, part one, and the Biden"
Hearing Protecting American Interests in a Convergent Global Threat Environment
house Armed Services Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript
GEN. JOHN "JACK" M. KEANE "artillery ammunition. And we managed to build our first new small arms plant since 1941 in a place called Lake City, Missouri. This is .50 caliber and below. So the war in Ukraine has truly emphasized that many of our facilities are outdated, and some of them actually are not as safe as they should be because of the processes that they're using. We've got to fix it, and we've got to continue the funding that has begun by two administrations, the Trump administration and Well, from my perspective, we're too small and our requirements are growing. So we have"
Hearing Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading the way.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
MARKEY, EDWARD J. "And thank you, Chairman Young. Thank you for your partnership. Today is the fourth hearing in this committee series celebrating small businesses and the central role they have played in our nation's history. Again, I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for making this an inclusive committee, bipartisan in nature, that has involved all of our members and given us a chance to showcase all of our states. Sadly, this spirit of bipartisanship that is in this committee is not shared by Donald Trump and his administration. Instead, bipartisanship is his North Star. Just recently, the Trump..."
Hearing Beijing’s Poison Pipeline: The CCP’s Role in the Fentanyl Crisis
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MS. ZONGYUAN ZOE LIU "The question then is how the United States can turn that responsibility into measurable Chinese measures. So the Biden administration and the Trump administration used different tools, but not on separate tracks. Biden rebuilt the counter-narcotic channel after San Francisco, giving Washington a way to press Beijing on chemicals and enforcement, but that channel had a limited time to prove durable"
Hearing “Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relationship to the Tiahrt Amendment”
house Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee · May 14, 2026 · Transcript
FROST, MAXWELL "there was some work done before you were sworn in, before you got the actual job. So I have some questions around that, Director. Did you start developing these regulations or these changes under the Biden administration or the Trump administration? Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate"
Hearing “Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "enforcement officers were diverted from their regular roles in investigating and prosecuting crimes to assist simply in immigration enforcement. An investigation from the New York Times found that from February through April of last year, Homeland Security investigators worked 33% fewer hours on child exploitation cases than they had in prior years. The result of this overwhelming focus on immigration enforcement is that DOJ quietly closed a stunning 23,000 criminal investigations in the first six months of the administration alone. The Trump administration seems inclined to ignore victims of..."
Hearing “Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Run by the States”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Apr 15, 2026 · Transcript
MS. ALLISON BALL "In August of 2023, my predecessor began a special examination at the request of the Biden administrators, HHS, OIG, in conjunction with three other states. When I took office, I saw this examination through both under the Biden administration and the Trump administration. This exam revealed that Kentucky paid $836 million to managed care organizations for the same Medicaid beneficiaries whose coverage was also being paid for by another"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
LANKFORD, JAMES "Thank you. We talked before about just trying to get information on time and such. In the transition that happened between the Biden administration and the Trump administration, data fell behind, and it fell really behind. It was one of my complaints that I had with Mayorkas that was sometimes two or three weeks late on releasing normal data information, just how many encounters were happening at the border, how many arrests, some of those things on"
Hearing Budget Hearing – Office of Management and Budget
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2025 · Transcript
LALOTA, NICK "In your experience, scores, predictions by the CBO, JCT, how have they been, sir? Thinking back to the first Trump administration and President Trump's 2017 tax cuts and jobs act, how would you rate the estimates by the CBO and JCT? And about how much in revenue were they off by, do you"
Hearing Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
PETERS, GARY C. "including the need to invest in sustainable domestic manufacturing capabilities for critical medical supplies, build the infrastructure needed to surge testing capacity for infectious diseases, and robustly fund public health emergency preparedness and responses across all levels of government. Unfortunately, multiple administrations, including the current Trump administration, have failed to fund or to reform our health preparedness. This is something that I would hope the committee in the future would investigate. It needs to be taken a look at. It also feels like a new public health threat..."
Hearing Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the Abraham Accords
house Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE DANIEL SHAPIRO "authority and broad focus on a range of countries that could be part of this expansion of regional integration. It has not yet been appointed, not in the Biden Administration, not in the Trump Administration. I think it is"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Joshua D. Dunlap, of Maine, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, Eric Chunyee Tung, of...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 30, 2025 · Transcript
COONS, CHRISTOPHER A. "Mr. Tong, what did you discuss at the meeting, and what sort of questions were you asked? As far as I can tell, during both the Biden administration and the first Trump administration, personal meetings by the President of the United States with circuit court nominees were exceedingly"
Hearing H.R. 9436 – To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 to extend the time period for which certain regulation concerning the North...
house Rules Committee · Aug 31, 2026 · Transcript
HUFFMAN, JARED "I want to correct my friend from Arkansas on one thing. It is true the Trump administration has added 55 mining projects to the FAST-41 dashboard, but there were six, there are six right now, left over from the Biden administration. Now, why did the Biden administration only have six and Trump has 55? Because they were prioritizing. They were looking at projects that actually did involve critical minerals, that did advance our national security interest. And what this legislation does is tie the hands of this administration or future"
Hearing Business meeting to markup S.1759, to allow for the operation of civil supersonic flight in the national airspace system under certain conditions,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
PETERS, GARY C. "consumer experience, and most importantly, to save lives. However, in addition to these benefits, connected vehicle technologies that are subject to control by our adversaries are a threat to national security. That's why in 2024, I pushed the Bureau of Industry and Security to write the Connected Vehicle Rule, which was ultimately published by the Biden administration and finalized by the Trump administration. And that's why I strongly support the Connected Vehicle Security Act, which strengthens and codifies this important rule. Specifically, the Connected Vehicle Security Act will ensure..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act".
senate Finance Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript
WARREN, ELIZABETH "And my amendment would reverse that, that shameful decision, and make Direct File law of the land. We also cannot stand by when the Trump administration just cut a deal giving Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card for potentially cheating on his taxes. No other taxpayer ever has gotten this kind of a deal, and a federal judge has already called it"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annual Report, focusing on a new day at the CFPB through reform.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE "And the only reason you are is because you know why? Who the administration was prior to that? Was the Trump administration. They didn't go through this whole-scale, illegally violating the appropriations"
Hearing U.S. Economic Security and Investment Abroad: Assessing Economic Security Zones
house Oversight and Intelligence Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
MOSKOWITZ, JARED "A lot of that has not still been fixed. After trillions of dollars were spent at the end of the Biden administration and the beginning of the first Trump administration and all these packages, a lot of the supply chain issues that still existed have not been fixed. And so we have to figure out how we are going to onshore more of that manufacturing back to the United States. That doesn't mean we can't live in a global economy, but we can't depend on foreign"
Hearing “Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
MS. SARAH PIERCE "My name is Sarah Pierce. I'm Director of Social Policy at Third Way. Third Way has a long history of saying things that both Democrats and Republicans dislike, so let me start there. The Biden administration's border policies were inexcusable. The Trump administration's interior enforcement policies are also inexcusable. My testimony today focuses on why. I have three main points. First, sanctuary policies do not prevent ICE from enforcing federal law. Every jurisdiction, including self-proclaimed sanctuaries, participates in immigration"
Hearing “The Monitoring Racket: The Grift that Keeps on Giving”
house Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee · Feb 13, 2026 · Transcript
NEHLS, TROY E. "And that's unfortunate. And I have more questions for you, but I'm going to yield back to the chairman. I guess we'll have a second round. So I'll get back to you in a few minutes, but thank you. gentleman from Texas thank you again mr. chairman so this specific case this was had nothing this wasn't the consent decree this was judicial yeah yeah so there was yeah I you know you notice a lot too with this new administration the Civil Rights Division under the Trump administration he's closing all the investigations whether it was right here in Phoenix Trent New Jersey"
Hearing United Nations Accountability and Reform: Advancing an America First Foreign Policy Through Strategic Diplomacy and Burden Sharing
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MEEKS, GREGORY W. "can solve these problems alone. American leadership at the U.N. has always been about ensuring those debates and decisions serve the American people. And that is why I'm deeply concerned by this administration's burn it down approach. Rather than strengthening America's leadership within the U.N. system, this administration has surrendered it. Since January 2025, the Trump administration has withdrawn the U.S. from 69 different entities and U.N. agencies, including the very U.N. body responsible for protecting children from sexual violence in"
Hearing H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. 9609, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Student Aid Act"; H.R. 9602, "Less...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "I think you know there's going to be opposition. And so we can continue with considering the bills, but I can assure you they're not going anywhere. Mr. Chairman, this bill would transfer the oversight of federal student aid, including Pell Grant student loans, loan repayment, public service loan forgiveness, default and delinquency from the Department of Education to the Department of Treasury. Since the beginning of the Trump administration, both agencies have been decimated by President Trump and Elon Musk's reduction in force directive. Within the Department of Education, these severe..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of James Andrew Crowell IV, and Stuart Gordon Nash, both of the District of Columbia, each to be an Associate...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
CRAIG E. LEEN "No, I wasn't. Forgive me if I wasn't trying to be that specific. The advice that I received from the administration at the time, which was the first Trump administration, was that we were, Executive Order 13950 was challenged in"
Hearing Nuclear Permitting Reform: Legislation to Advance Efficient Licensing
house Energy Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
MENENDEZ, ROBERT "agency by choice or were forced out, and the agency has been struggling to rehire staff ever since. A ProPublica article details DOGE's involvement at NRC and cites several instances where career staff at NRC were concerned about changes being made at the regulator. Here are a couple of examples. Steve Cohen, who was leading the DOGE charge at NRC, said the goal was to make the agency into a quote, rubber stamp for the Trump administration and dismiss safety concerns raised by NRC staff. Several new officials at the agency have little to no experience of nuclear energy policy or law. NRC..."
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026 · Transcript
ISSA, DARRELL "and that has been going on under Republican and Democratic administrations for years. What's unique about the Trump administration this time is that you and President Trump have managed to reduce the backlog of people seeking that for the first time in decades. You are getting ahead of that tremendous backlog that caused, for better or worse, the release of millions of people with little pieces of paper"
Hearing Balancing Biotechnology Innovation and Biosecurity: Securing U.S. Leadership in a Global Race
house Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee · Sep 16, 2026 · Transcript
SYKES, EMILIA STRONG "thousands of high-paying jobs in Ohio, many of them concentrated in the Akron-Cleveland region and leading at leading institutions such as the University of Akron. A recent survey found that Ohio's life sciences industry employed nearly 65,000 people earning average annual wages exceeding six figures. Biotechnology is an engine of growth for our local economy and offers tremendous opportunities for working families within our region. But America's leadership in technology is not a given. There is no question that China has made enormous strides in developing its own biotech in recent decades...."
Hearing Hearings to examine arms race.
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Dec 10, 2025 · Transcript
HONORABLE ROSE E. GOTTEMOELLER "Deployed warheads, of course. And now I'm coming to your question. Whatever that means. Yes, I'm coming to your question about the non-strategic warheads. And I really was very much admiring the move of the Trump administration during his first term in office when President Trump got President Putin to agree to a freeze on all warheads, deployed and non-deployed, strategic and"
Hearing Hearings to examine maritime security in Africa, focusing on assessing threats to United States commercial diplomacy and national security interests.
senate Africa and Global Health Policy Subcommittee · Dec 10, 2025 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "Deployed warheads, of course. And now I'm coming to your question. Whatever that means. Yes, I'm coming to your question about the non-strategic warheads. And I really was very much admiring the move of the Trump administration during his first term in office when President Trump got President Putin to agree to a freeze on all warheads, deployed and non-deployed, strategic and"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Energy.
senate Energy and Water Development Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "This broad portfolio is part of America's balance sheet. Tens of trillions of dollars worth of assets that belong to the American people and should be responsibly managed, conserved and put to use for their benefit, according to the law. Well, prior administrations have handcuffed prosperity and locked Americans out of their land and water. The Trump administration is doing the opposite, responsibly unlocking access and unlocking prosperity through recreation and sustainable use, including by our nation's hunters and anglers. This budget reflects President Trump's prized priorities to pursue..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Treasury.
senate Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
DOUG BURGUM "This broad portfolio is part of America's balance sheet. Tens of trillions of dollars worth of assets that belong to the American people and should be responsibly managed, conserved and put to use for their benefit, according to the law. Well, prior administrations have handcuffed prosperity and locked Americans out of their land and water. The Trump administration is doing the opposite, responsibly unlocking access and unlocking prosperity through recreation and sustainable use, including by our nation's hunters and anglers. This budget reflects President Trump's prized priorities to pursue..."
Hearing Hearings to examine seniors and the workforce.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
WARREN, ELIZABETH "Now Senate Democrats have fought back, and we have forced the Trump administration to reverse course on some of their most harmful policies, but this fight is not over. Social Security Administration is still facing a customer service crisis, and the Trump administration and the Republicans are still looking for ways to cut Social Security. So their current approach is make Americans work until they drop"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council's Annual Report to Congress.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Feb 5, 2026 · Transcript
WARREN, ELIZABETH "the cops who go after white-collar crime. Meanwhile, middle-class families get the short end of the stick. Unemployment is growing and prices are up, but American families can't even get the basic respect of a straight answer from Team Trump. The president lies about prices being lower when every family has walked into a grocery store knows that prices are up. Secretary Besant tells workers that the Trump administration has created a blue-collar boom, while Donald Trump's own Labor Department reports that manufacturing jobs are down by 71,000 since Trump took office. But American families..."