Government Accountability

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. 

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is calling on the FDA to answer for the growing shortage of baby formula around the nation.  In an interview on Fox News today, he asked, "What is the FDA doing with its time? There’s no explanation for this. Missouri, my state, is one of the states in the country that is over 50 percent out of stock. Not only is it not acceptable, this isn’t sustainable.”  He went on to demand that the Biden Administration do...

The Senate adopted resolution S.Res.594 last night, which was introduced by U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) last month in honor of three Missouri Police Officers who were killed in the line of duty in March. Corporal Benjamin Lee Cooper of the Joplin Police Department, Police Officer Jake Alexander Reed of the Joplin Police Department, and Patrolman Lane Anthony Burns of the Bonne Terre Police Department lost their lives in service to their...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) exposed President Biden's latest radical leftwing nominee, Katy Huff, nominated for Assistant Secretary of Energy.

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a new letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, expressing deep concern with the administration’s decision to rescind the Title 42 order amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis – with numbers surging – at the southern border. Senator Hawley also inquired about disturbing new reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has plans to divert resources from veterans to provide free services for illegal...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) issued the following statement calling for the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to hold immediate hearings on President Joe Biden's plan to rescind Title 42:

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) issued the following statement on the Joplin police officers who were shot in the line of duty earlier this week: