The Washington Report

House Oversight Chair Comer threatens FBI Director Wray with contempt of Congress charge and finally gets his hands on a tip from a confidential informant that says that as vice president, Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe from a foreigner in exchange for policy action … 11 House conservatives take down a rule unexpectedly to demonstrate their influence over the course of House proceedings, in case Speaker McCarthy forgot … has China been spying on us from a base in Cuba for years? … former President Trump becomes the first former president, and the first leading opposition party presidential candidate, ever to be indicted by the federal government … All this and more.

New documents reveal DHS Secretary Mayorkas has been using taxpayer dollars to target conservatives, Christians, Republicans, and Tea Party supporters, and equates them with Nazis … House and Senate pass a bill to suspend the debt ceiling and do other things, but not much of what conservatives wanted … an IRS whistleblower outs himself and sits for an interview with CBS News, charges political influence in Hunter Biden investigation … House Oversight Committee Chairman gets his hands on an FBI document that alleges that as VP, Biden took a bribe from a foreign actor … all this and more.

What’s the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations? And what’s up with all this talk of President Biden using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to bypass Congress and continue issuing debt on his own? … IRS whistleblower’s lawyers say he and his entire investigative team just got removed from the investigation, at the request of the DOJ … a federal judge in Florida smacks the Biden Administration for failing to follow the law on the border … all this and more.

The House passes a huge border security and immigration and asylum reform bill as Title 42 is lifted and tens of thousands crash the border … House Oversight Committee releases interim report on the Biden Crime Family showing millions of dollars received from foreign nationals, but no clue of what the payments were in exchange for … Dianne Feinstein returns to DC; will Schumer tee up the Julie Su confirmation vote now? … President Biden meets with congresional leaders at the White House to discuss debt ceiling; will they succeed in getting the fiscal house back in order? … All this and more.

House and Senate leaders will sit with President Biden to discuss the debt ceiling, finally … the House will take up a border security/asylum reform bill dubbed H.R. 2 by the House GOP leadership … is the FBI hiding a witness document alleging Joe Biden was involved in a pay-to-play scheme in which he took money for a policy favor? … all this and more

House GOP surprises the DC Establishment and passes a debt ceiling bill that saves three bucks for every buck in increased borrowing authority; how will Dems respond? … Biden’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Labor Secretary nominee advances, but with Feinstein still absent, will Schumer risk a floor vote? … House GOP preps a massive illegal immigration/border security package for floor action next week … all this and more, plus your questions.

Major news: a senior IRS official has asked Congress for whistleblower protection to discuss how political considerations have infected the Hunter Biden investigation … Remember that letter from 51 “Intelligence Community professionals” that said the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation? Turns out it wasn’t spontaneous — it was generated from inside the Biden campaign! … House GOP rallies behind the “Limit, Save, Grow Act,” Speaker McCarthy’s opening bid on the debt ceiling negotiations … Senate Dems still trying to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein, but GOP Senators won’t have it … all this and more

House and Senate return from their two-week Easter recess, and inquiring minds want to know — how soon can we get them out of town again? … House Republicans begin to figure out what spending cuts they’ll demand in exchange for raising the debt ceiling … CBO says government is spending money MUCH faster than anticipated even a year ago, so this year’s deficit is already 60 PERCENT HIGHER than projected last year … Will Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s illness continue to hamstring Biden’s effort to pack the judiciary with hard-core liberals? … All this and more.

The House passes a major energy bill; will it move in the Senate? … it looks like AG Garland lied to Congress … Sen. Tuberville plays hardball with the Pentagon over taxpayer-funded abortion … Social Security and Medicare are running out of money … SO MUCH on the Trump indictment … all this and more.

House and Senate are back this week, what’s on the agenda? … Comer says Chinese Communist Party cronies sent millions to the Biden family, and that’s just the beginning of it … Biden bails out bank depositors; is that the same thing as bailing out the banks? Is it as dangerous? You bet! … Will Trump be arrested Tuesday? For what? … all this and more.