WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-mo.) grilled Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison for cooperating with fraudsters in his state and called for him to resign. Senator Hawley questioned Ellison, "You are familiar with the $9 billion in historic fraud out of your state, including the $250 million in the Feeding Our Future program alone?" "I am familiar with it," Ellison responded. "Because the people who ran the Feeding Our Future program came to you...
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Hawley Exposes Fraud in State and Federal Programs and Dark Money Funding Web
WASHINGTON -- Yesterday, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) chaired a hearing in his Homeland Security Subcommittee exposing the widespread fraud in state and federal programs, as well as the dark money groups sponsoring radical left-wing subversion in Americaโs streets. โYou testified that about a trillion dollars you think is lost in fraud every year. Where's this money going?โ Chairman Hawley asked Haywood Talcove, CEO of Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions. ...
Hawley Urges DOJ to Investigate Left-Wing Dark Money Groups Funding Anti-ICE Protests
WASHINGTONย -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)ย sentย a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi,ย urgingย the Department of Justice toย investigateย radical left-wing organizations and individuals funding anti-ICE protestsโincluding those with possible ties to the Chinese Communist Party."I write to request that the Department of Justice open a comprehensive investigation into the funding and coordination of recent so-called 'grassroots' anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) campaigns...
Hawley Secures Commitment from Trump DOJ to Investigate Biden FBI Spying on Him, Calls for Special Prosecutor
Today, in a Senate Judiciary hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)ย secured a commitmentย from Attorney General Pam Bondi that her Department of Justice (DOJ) would fully investigate how Joe Biden weaponized his DOJ to track Senator Hawley's personal communications and access his confidential phone records. Biden's special prosecutor Jack Smith also spied on seven other Republican members of Congress. Senator Hawley lamented Biden's weaponization of government against conservatives and what...
‘Abuse of Power Beyond Watergate’: Hawley Reacts to New Reporting that Biden FBI Spied on Him, Other Republican Lawmakers
Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement following explosive new reporting, revealing that President Joe Biden's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spied on Republican senators and a representativeโgoing so far as to tap the lawmakers' private communications and phone calls. The organized spying campaign was part of the Biden-era "Arctic Frost" investigation. The truth comes out. Bidenโs Stasi who claimed to be saving โour sacred democracyโ in fact...
WATCH: Hawley Grills Former Biden Advisor Over Defund the Police Advocacy and Gender Lunacy
This morning, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Gregory Jackson, Jr.โformer President Joe Biden's Deputy Director of Gun Violence Preventionโfor advocating to defund the police and invest in "safe-spaces" for "two-spirit" individuals. โMr. Jackson, Do you renounce the report that you authored as executive director?โ Senator Hawley asked. โThis is your report, 'A Policymaker's Playbook To Reduce Gun Violence Without Policing Communities'...
Hawley Expands Investigation, Demands Documents from Big Tech on AI Chatbot Policies after Hearing
Following an explosive Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing thatย exposedย the harm AI chatbots have caused to children, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) issued document requests to Character.AI, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Snap Inc. demanding they turn over all communications related to their AI chatbot policies.ย In the letters, Senator Hawley, who chairs the committee, noted the testimony of several parents who lost their children to suicide at...
ICYMI: Chairman Hawley Exposes AI Chatbots for Harming Children
'Every Parent's Worst Nightmare' U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, held a hearing to expose the growing harms to children posed by online chatbots like Character.AI, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta. The hearing featured new testimony from parents of chatbot victims as well as AI safety experts and psychologistsโone of whom recently issued a health advisory for AI chatbots.One mother...
Hawley Secures Commitment from FBI Director Patel to Investigate Anti-Christian Violence & AI Chatbots
Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) secured a commitment from FBI Director Kash Patel to further investigate the harms of AI chatbots and anti-Christian violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. "I want to start by talking to you about the tide of violence that we have seen, ideological violence against people of faith, particularly Christians," Senator Hawley said. "Is the FBI investigating the Kirk assassination as part of this broader...
Hawley, Blumenthal Unveil Bipartisan Bill Empowering Working Americans to Sue Big Tech, AI Companies for Stealing Creative Works
Today, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced bipartisan legislation to protect consumersโ data rights and hold Big Tech companies accountable for illegally pirating creators' copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence (AI) models. Senator Hawley's legislation follows his recent Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing where he sounded the alarm on AI companies' willful engagement in "the largest...