On Thursday, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/05-22-2025-Letter-to-Dr.-OConnor.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to former White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor, alerting him that he is being investigated for his medical assessments of former President Joe Biden, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.
“The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating the accuracy, transparency, and credibility of your medical assessments of former President Joe Biden given his recent acknowledgment of an advanced physical condition and a publicly apparent cognitive decline,” Comer wrote, noting that the Committee had first written to O’Connor on July 7, 2024, 10 days after the Trump-Biden debate in which Biden had shown clear signs of a mental decline.
“Biden White House officials stalled all attempts by the Committee to obtain your testimony,” Comer recalled. “In light of mounting evidence that confirms the Committee’s initial observation that President Biden was significantly unwell while serving in office, the Committee seeks information to ensure accurate information was provided to the American people and your health reports were not subject to any improper influence.”
Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday if the White House would further scrutinize O&#8217;Connor.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MaryMargOlohan</a>: &quot;Is there interest in further scrutiny of Kevin O&#39;Connor, the former president&#39;s physician?&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a>: &quot;[President Trump] wanted to extend his warmest wishes to the former president &#8230; as for any further action, I&#39;ll let the President speak on that first.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/XTogdSMjSQ">pic.twitter.com/XTogdSMjSQ</a>
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In early July 2024, White House spokesman Andrew Bates said, “Dr. O’Connor is a world class medical professional” whose “unique expertise is sought across the medical community, in which he is respected for his candor, attention to detail, and work ethic,” The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/06/kevin-oconnor-biden-doctor-cognitive-tests-debate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
O’Connor, an osteopathic physician who <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/06/kevin-oconnor-biden-doctor-cognitive-tests-debate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">became</a> Biden’s doctor in 2009, said in February 2024 that Biden was “a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.”
The committee is also investigating whether O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s “financial relationship with the Biden family affected [his] assessment” of the former president&#8217;s fitness to serve. 
“Given your connections with the Biden family, the Committee seeks to understand if you contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden’s fitness to serve from the American people,” Comer warned, mentioning Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with Biden that had depicted Biden as deteriorating mentally.
Looking forward, Comer stated, “The Committee seeks information about your assessment of and relationship with former President Biden to explore whether the time has come for Congress to revisit potential legislation to address the oversight of presidents’ fitness to serve pursuant to its authority under Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xxv">Amendment</a>.”
In August 2020, Biden, then 77, was asked whether he had taken a cognitive test. “Why the hell would I take a test?” he answered testily.
“We request you make yourself available for a transcribed interview on June 25, 2025,” Comer concluded.

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The House Homeland Security Committee will interview the fired FEMA supervisor who ordered relief workers in Florida to skip homes with Trump flags or signs, a committee spokesman told The Daily Wire. 
The committee on Tuesday will interview Marn’i Washington, who was fired last month by FEMA after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that she had ordered relief workers in Lake Placid to “avoid homes advertising Trump&#8221; as they canvassed after Hurricane Milton. Since the story broke, Washington has claimed that FEMA made her a scapegoat, and that it is agency policy to skip “politically hostile” homes. 
Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-to-question-fired-fema-supervisor-over-guidance-to-skip-trump-supporters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> Friday that Washington schedule a transcribed interview to discuss her accusations against FEMA and her guidance in Florida. 
“While FEMA may maintain that this was an isolated incident, you suggested in a recent interview that this practice of discrimination was widespread throughout FEMA, including in disaster response efforts in North Carolina,” Green wrote. &#8220;Government discrimination against American citizens based on a political sign or flag promoting a particular candidate is not only an outrageous abuse of power and a serious betrayal of the public trust, but a direct violation of the First Amendment.&#8221;
Whistleblowers told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes were skipped in Lake Placid due to Washington’s guidance. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell confirmed this number during congressional testimony and said that agency staff had visited the neglected homes to register survivors after the story broke. 
Criswell told lawmakers that the incident was isolated, contradicting Washington’s comments in media interviews and allegations from other whistleblowers. One whistleblower <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-alleges-fema-advised-georgia-hurricane-victims-to-remove-trump-signs-comer-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the House Oversight Committee that a FEMA supervisor in Georgia directed a family to remove Trump campaign signage from their home, saying it was not “looked kindly” on by the agency. 
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On Tuesday, lawmakers on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-ask-for-probe-into-allegations-fema-skipped-entire-neighborhoods-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> in a letter to Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari that they had heard whistleblower reports from North Carolina alleging whole neighborhoods had been skipped over if there were three or more Trump signs in them. 
“In North Carolina, the Committee is aware of reports of FEMA employees skipping any home that displayed a ‘Make America Great Again,’ ‘Drain the Swamp,’ ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ or Trump campaign sign. If the FEMA field team encountered three or more of these signs, the field team could abandon the entire neighborhood without notifying hurricane victims of assistance available to them,” Committee Chair Sam Graves and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) wrote. 
FEMA has yet to respond to any of the follow up allegations, but maintain that they are still investigating Washington’s guidance.

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A new House subcommittee will reportedly work with the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to help slash government waste.
The new Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee will be established by the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s chairman, Representative James Comer (R-KY), and chaired by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-create-doge-subcommittee-chaired-marjorie-taylor-greene-work-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
President-elect Donald Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-elon-musks-department-of-government-efficiency-will-work">tapped</a> Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE, which he said will “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” giving government an “entrepreneurial approach.”
Comer said the new subcommittee &#8220;will align with the Trump administration’s priorities to eliminate government waste, streamline the federal government’s operations and cut red tape that’s stifling jobs and increasing costs for the American people.&#8221;
He added that Trump’s &#8220;landslide victory reflects a clear mandate to address inflationary spending that’s driving up the cost of living for hardworking Americans.&#8221;
&#8220;Wasteful government spending must end, and taxpayers deserve to see their money used effectively and efficiently,&#8221; Comer said.
Comer reportedly met with Ramaswamy and Greene recently to discuss the project.
&#8220;A key step to driving greater efficiency in government is exposing the problem to the public — we are grateful that the House Oversight Committee has created a subcommittee to focus on this work,&#8221; a spokesperson for Ramaswamy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-create-doge-subcommittee-chaired-marjorie-taylor-greene-work-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;We look forward to working together.&#8221;
Greene said the new subcommittee would bring &#8220;transparency and truth to the American people through hearings.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m excited to chair this new subcommittee designed to work hand in hand with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and the entire DOGE team,&#8221; Greene said. &#8220;We will identify and investigate the waste, corruption and absolutely useless parts of our federal government.&#8221;
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&#8220;No topic will be off the table,&#8221; Greene said, adding that she expects the subcommittee &#8220;will expose people who need to be fired.&#8221;
DOGE will be a commission outside the government that will work with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to advise the president on what government bloat can be cut.
Musk said he plans to target overregulation and out-of-control spending.
“The world is suffering slow strangulation by overregulation. Every year, the noose tightens a little more,” the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1856729913148989710">posted</a> last week.
“We’re going to make the spending lower &#8230; if we don’t we’re going to bankrupt the country,&#8221; Musk said during a town hall in Pennsylvania last month.
DOGE will operate on a deadline. Trump said it would finish its work by July 4, 2026, the nation’s 250th birthday,

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Washington — Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry told The Daily Wire he was not satisfied with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell&#8217;s answers during a Tuesday hearing on an agency employee&#8217;s instruction to relief workers to skip homes with Trump flags or signs.
Perry, the chair of the subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, said that there needed to be an impartial investigation into the guidance that FEMA supervisor Marn&#8217;i Washington issued in Lake Placid, Florida. Whistleblowers told The Daily Wire, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs">first reported</a> on the guidance, that relief workers skipped at least 20 homes.
“It looks like they are going try and cover their tracks here without really looking at it,&#8221; Perry told The Daily Wire shortly after the hearing wrapped. &#8220;She said she’s working with the Inspector General. Why not just request the Inspector General do an investigation so that it’s done transparently and FEMA either can be cleared or this employee can be cleared? Somebody has done something wrong here. We got two sets of stories. One of them is right, the other one is wrong, and you can’t have the one side adjudicating that.”
Criswell said during the hearing that she would ask the Inspector General to conduct an investigation into the incident. Perry said that Republicans would ensure she follows through.
The Pennsylvania Republican also observed that Criswell — who said that the guidance was an &#8220;isolated&#8221; incident — contradicted Washington, who alleges that the agency has a widespread policy of skipping &#8220;politically hostile&#8221; homes.
Washington was fired a day after The Daily Wire reported on the guidance. She has since said that she has been made a scapegoat by FEMA.
“We want to know who’s lying. Somebody’s lying,&#8221; Perry said. 
“The person that they’ve fired has made multiple claims publicly that there was a culture that existed and that she was directed to do that,&#8221; Perry said of the guidance. &#8220;The FEMA administrator has said that she has not seen any evidence of that but she didn’t include that she was interested in finding it. She essentially dismissed that there would be any culture or anybody else involved but has no information to verify that.&#8221;
Perry said the panel didn&#8217;t get a lot of answers on the guidance, apart from claims that there was an ongoing investigation into the matter. Criswell said that anyone else found to be discriminating based on political affiliation would be fired, and that the agency would ensure it didn&#8217;t happen again.
Criswell is slated to speak before the House Oversight Committee Tuesday afternoon, where she will again be questioned about the guidance.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has reportedly said that trans-identifying men will not be allowed to use the women&#8217;s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol.
Johnson made the announcement to the GOP conference on Tuesday, POLITICO reported.
“He said there’s not going to be any biological men using our restrooms,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told the outlet.
“It&#8217;s pretty aggressive for biological men to be invading our spaces,” Greene <a href="https://x.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1858889083121983623" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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Speaker Mike Johnson told the GOP conference today that transgender women won’t be allowed to use the women’s bathrooms in the Capitol, per two sources. It comes as Rep. Mace puts forward a bill on the matter. 
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confirmed this when I asked her about…
&mdash; Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1858888364226740670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The speaker&#8217;s comments come after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) introduced a bill to keep Sarah McBride, a trans-identifying man who will represent Delaware in the House next year, from using the women&#8217;s bathrooms at the Capitol.
McBride will be the first ever trans-identifying member of Congress.
Mace&#8217;s <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25338190-bathroomresolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> would prohibit House members and staffers from &#8220;using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex&#8221; in the Capitol and House office buildings.
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The prohibition would be enforced by the House sergeant-at-arms, according to the bill.
&#8220;Sarah McBride doesn&#8217;t get a say in this. If you&#8217;re a biological man, you shouldn&#8217;t be in women&#8217;s restrooms,&#8221; Mace <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/11/19/nancy-mace-sarah-mcbride-transgender-bathroom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters Monday.
Democrats accused Mace of &#8220;bullying&#8221; the member of Congress-elect.
&#8220;This is not just bigotry, this is just plain bullying,&#8221; Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said.
Speaker Johnson said at a press conference on Tuesday that there were concerns about trans-identifying men using restrooms and noted that “Congress has never had to address before.”
Gender ideology loomed large over the presidential election this year. President-elect Donald Trump frequently mentioned biological men in women&#8217;s sports during his rallies.
Three-fourths of Americans think biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to use the women’s locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms, a new survey from Napolitan News Service <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/growing-number-of-americans-want-to-ban-child-sex-changes-poll-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a>.

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This week, the Biden administration announced it opposes House Resolution 8774, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act which was passed by the GOP-led House, complaining it had “devastating consequences” for “access to reproductive healthcare &#8230; the health and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Americans, endangered &#8216;marriage equality,&#8217;” and prevented the Biden administration from “promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, which make the Nation’s military a more ready and lethal force.”
“If the President were presented with H.R. 8774, he would veto it,” the Biden administration’s Office of Management and Budget<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H.R.-8774-%E2%80%94-Department-of-Defense-Appropriations-Act-2025-SAP-FINAL-6-24-24.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> declared</a>. The White House criticized a Republican effort to cut $621 million for “DOD’s accounts identified as climate change-related.”
The White House also said it “strongly opposes section 8122 of the bill, which would provide that USSOUTHCOM assume combatant command responsibility for activities related to Mexico.” OMB then explained that section 8122 would impede President Biden’s capacity “to organize military command and control through approval of a Unified Command Plan consistent with title 10, United States Code, section 161.”
The White House opposed sections 8136, 8137, 8138, and 8139 of the bill, complaining, “These provisions would interfere with the President’s ability to determine the appropriate disposition of GTMO (Guantanamo Bay) detainees and to make important foreign policy and national security determinations regarding whether and under what circumstances to transfer detainees to the custody or effective control of foreign countries.”
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The White House strongly opposed section 8167 of the bill, “which would prohibit the use of funds for the construction, maintenance, operation, or assembly of any pier or any structure built off the coast of Gaza.” The Gaza pier built by the Biden administration reportedly <a href="//6995755A-833E-41D1-A913-616368CFB3F3/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cost</a> roughly $230 million; pro-Hamas terrorists launched a mortar attack on the pier in late April, U.S. officials <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/04/26/terrorists-attack-u-s-pier-under-construction-off-gaza-coast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“The Administration strongly opposes section 8153, as it contradicts Executive Order (EO) 14004, “Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform,” and EO 13988, “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation,” which expands the discrimination protections previously offered solely on the basis of sex into the categories of gender identity and sexual orientation,” OMB stated.
“The U.S. Military is the best fighting force in the world and it is one of the most diverse fighting forces in the world. Efforts to undermine DOD’s inclusion policies would undermine its efforts to foster a stronger and more resilient fighting force,” OMB claimed.

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