Government Accountability

Today in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) slammed Attorney General Merrick Garland for his lack of accountability regarding the Justice Department's targeting and subsequent arrests of people of faith, particularly Catholics. Senator Hawley pressed Garland on the arrest of pro-life activist Mark Houck, including the aggressive measures taken to arrest Houck despite his previous offers to cooperate. "You are the Attorney General of the United...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.) requesting a hearing on federal disaster relief efforts to address the destructive train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio and other transportation-related incidents across the United States. Senator Hawley has also expressed serious concern over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) decision to deny Ohio...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shalanda Young, demanding the swift implementation of the TikTok ban on government devices, as required by his recently passed legislation, the No TikTok on Government Devices Act. "I write to urge the Biden Administration to expeditiously implement the recently enacted No TikTok on Government Devices Act," Senator Hawley wrote. "As you know, I originally...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland seeking further information about President Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, and why the Department of Justice (DOJ) took the extreme step of raiding President Trump’s home in response to supposedly similar conduct but gave President Biden deferential treatment. "In August of last year, FBI agents raided the Mar-a-Lago residence of former President Donald Trump, supposedly to...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) issued the following statement on the unprecedented Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raid of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home:

Following the release of new whistleblower documents last week obtained by U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on details of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Disinformation Governance Board, U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) Republicans have sent a letter to Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.) requesting a new hearing with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas regarding his misleading...

New whistleblower documents, obtained by U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), expose shocking new details about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) planned Disinformation Governance Board. The documents reveal that DHS drafted plans for the Disinformation Governance Board as early as September 2021 and explored the possibility of partnerships with Big Tech companies like Twitter to assist in their efforts....

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) led a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting the immediate release of all documents related to the agency’s recently-shelved Disinformation Governance Board. U.S. Senators and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee members Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) also joined the letter. Under federal law (5 U.S.C. § 2954), the...

Following the release of the National School Board Association’s (NSBA) review of its September 2021 letter to the Department of Justice, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement. The NSBA review found, in part, that NSBA interim CEO and Executive Director Chip Slaven drafted the letter with assistance from White House officials and that an initial draft of the letter called for the administration to deploy “the Army National Guard and its Military Police” to certain...

In a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) asked Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm to answer for record-high rising gas prices across America.