Author: Gabe Kaminsky

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned Sunday of “plenty of reasons to be concerned” about Russia interfering in the 2024 election, though said, “I can’t speak to evidence.” “I can’t speak to evidence today, but I can tell you, of course, there are concerns,” Sullivan said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “There is…

The campaign arm for House Democrats counts one of its top fundraisers as a recent lobbyist for a U.S. government-sanctioned company linked to China’s military, records show. Steve Elmendorf was listed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in a Federal Election Commission filing covering the month of January as a bundler, which refers to influential…

To Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), there’s an urgent need to stop “billionaires from buying our elections.” Tester often slams the wealthy and well-connected for trying to wield power in Washington, D.C., a phenomenon he attributes to the Supreme Court’s landmark 2010 Citizens United decision, which ruled it unconstitutional to restrict outside groups from spending cash…

State Department officials privately took aim at a roughly $1 million grant to support investigations into alleged human rights abuses in Israel after the agency defended it, emails show. The State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor announced in February 2022 it would award cash to nonprofit organizations to “strengthen accountability and human…

EXCLUSIVE — Republican lawmakers are accusing the State Department of threatening to obstruct their investigation into “censorship” of companies in the United States. House Small Business Committee Republicans have continued to request grant records from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center for an inquiry into “government censorship and revenue interference of American small businesses by proxy,”…

The wife of Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) is a top staffer for a Santa Fe-based arts and entertainment company whose venue was accused by Jewish American singer Matisyahu of antisemitism after it canceled his concert this week, records show. Matisyahu, a Pennsylvania native famous for songs such as “One Day” and “King Without a Crown,”…

House Republicans are eyeing a proposal to block meetings with high-powered lobbying firms representing companies linked to China’s military. This month, a document of unknown origin has made the rounds on Capitol Hill identifying People’s Republic of China companies on U.S. entity lists, including the Pentagon’s 1260H list of Chinese military-tied companies, plus their lobbyists, to whom lawmakers…

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) discussed a Washington Examiner report on Hamas-owned cryptocurrency as part of a House floor speech this week calling for the Palestinian aid agency of the United Nations to be defunded over terrorism ties. The House Foreign Affairs Committee member in a Wednesday speech excoriated the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which…

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) sought information in a Wednesday hearing from a top Treasury Department official on why the agency has stonewalled investigating top Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue for boosting an anti-Israel group accused of being linked to terrorism. In September 2023, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) asked the FBI and Treasury Department to review whether ActBlue Charities…