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Department of Education watchdog to probe DOGE access to sensitive data
It comes after Sen. Warren led an effort to investigate DOGE's actions. The Department of Education's Office watchdog is launching an investigation into the agency's sensitive data systems, according to a letter first obtained by ABC News. The news comes after Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and a group of her Democratic colleagues sent a letter requesting a probe of the Department of Government Efficiency's alleged "infiltration" of the Education Department's Federal Student Aid office, … Continue Reading
September 17, 2025
Don't Like Where This Is Headed
Four Senate Democrats are openly fearing that the Trump administration will write rules that heavily favor corporate America when fleshing out the megabill that President Donald Trump signed a couple months back. The Democrats—Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)—most specifically are worried about one of the key point men in implementing the new law: Ken Kies, the assistant Treasury secretary for tax … Continue Reading
September 16, 2025
Boeing Parts Costs Push Senators to Target Defense Price Gouging
Pentagon contractors must notify the government if the price of spare parts for sustainment contracts jumps by more than 25%, under bipartisan legislation from Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). The bill reported first by Bloomberg Government is intended to prevent price gouging on sole-source contracts obtained without competitive bidding to sustain weapons, aircraft, ships and vehicles long-term. The Pentagon's Inspector General last year … Continue Reading
September 15, 2025
Senators pressure Jeff Bezos over Amazon schedules they say squeeze workers
Amazon, the second largest private employer in the United States, is under fresh bipartisan scrutiny from federal lawmakers over its treatment of workers. In a letter to Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos sent Friday, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) raised concerns about how the company schedules shifts for hourly warehouse and delivery workers. A 2024 survey from the Shift Project at the Harvard Kennedy School suggests those employees are … Continue Reading
September 10, 2025
The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags
Sen. Warren cited reports that xAI was a “late-in-the-game addition under the Trump administration” and that it had not been considered for such contracts before March of this year, and that the company did not have the type of reputation or proven record that typically precedes DoD awards. The letter requests that the DoD provide, in response, the full scope of work for xAI, how its contract differs from the contracts with the other AI companies, and “to what extent DoD will implement Grok, … Continue Reading
September 09, 2025
Democrats accuse Treasury of creating new business tax loopholes
Democrats in the House and Senate say that new Treasury regulations will allow large corporations to avoid paying the corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT). The CAMT is a sweeping tax rule that Democrats updated in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act and that Republicans largely left in place in their One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this summer, to the surprise of many in the accounting field. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
September 08, 2025
Warren Seeks Recusal Commitments From Top IRS Lawyer Nominee
President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as the next chief counsel at the IRS should limit any financial dealings with businesses after he leaves office, according to a key Democrat on the Senate committee overseeing the agency. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Sunday specifically asked Donald Korb, a lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell looking to return as the IRS's top lawyer, to recuse himself during Trump’s term from any matters involving his former clients, employers, or financial … Continue Reading
September 05, 2025
Social Security watchdog opens investigation into telephone wait times and customer service
The Social Security Administration’s acting inspector general has opened a review of the agency’s call center wait times and its ability to deliver services to Americans. The investigation was requested by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has repeatedly voiced concerns about the agency’s performance after a Department of Government Efficiency-led reorganization. Warren told reporters in July that she discussed the need for an audit with Commissioner Frank Bisignano when … Continue Reading
September 04, 2025
Immigration Detentions of Military Family Members Spark Lawmaker Probe
As stories of military family members being detained by immigration authorities pile up, dozens of Democrats are launching an investigation into how the military’s traditional protections against deportation for noncitizen service members and their families are crumbling under the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. The investigation kicked off with a letter, signed by 61 Democrats from the Senate and House, sent Tuesday to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Department of Homeland … Continue Reading
September 03, 2025
Democrats blast state department for lack of ‘basic oversight’ of controversial Gaza food organization
Senior Democratic senators have called on the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, to reveal details behind the financing and oversight of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) amid concerns over rising death tolls near aid sites, the group’s apparent coordination with the Israeli army and its reported use of private military contractors linked to intelligence operations. The letter, co-signed by senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen and … Continue Reading
September 03, 2025
Scoop: Social Security starts customer wait time audit
The Social Security Administration — under pressure from Senate Democrats —is on track to finish an internal audit of the agency's call wait times by year's end, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Democrats and the Trump administration are clashing over how GOP cuts have affected customer wait times, with each side disputing the other's data. SSA's acting inspector general said the audit had begun and outlined the year-end time frame for lawmakers in a letter that was first obtained by … Continue Reading
August 28, 2025
NBC News: Democrats probe Trump administration's retreat from public corruption cases
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have given a “green light to would-be lawbreakers” by gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section and folding one of the FBI’s public corruption squads, a group of congressional Democrats wrote in a letter Thursday. “DOJ’s refusal to enforce anti-corruption laws betrays the public trust and will create lasting harm to Americans’ faith in the integrity of government officials,” Democrats wrote in their letter to Bondi and … Continue Reading
August 26, 2025
Inside Higher Ed: It’s More Difficult to File Student Aid Complaints, Dems Say
Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and four of her fellow Democrats asked Education Secretary Linda McMahon in a letter Monday why her department has made it more difficult to file complaints about federal student aid and demanded her staff remove any extra steps that have been added to the process. “ED is covering up its attempts to make [the Office of Federal Student Aid] less responsive to millions of students, families, and borrowers who rely on the agency to lower the cost of … Continue Reading
August 22, 2025
Massachusetts Playbook: BY THE NUMBERS
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's office has new numbers on how the so-called Big Beautiful Bill will impact Bay State residents. According to data Warren's office pulled from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, up to 350,000 Massachusetts Medicaid recipients could be at risk of getting booted from their health care plans, and 104,000 Bay Staters could lose food assistance. Warren's take: "Kicking hundreds of thousands of people in Massachusetts off their health care and food assistance - … Continue Reading
August 05, 2025
ABC News: Sen. Elizabeth Warren touts investigations into Trump administration's federal cuts
As the Trump administration says it's continuing its effort to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government through cuts at key agencies such as the Social Security Administration and the Education Department, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is touting her ongoing investigations that she said work to protect millions of Americans from restricted access to higher education and retirement benefits. "We cannot stand by and let Trump abuse his power by ripping away the programs that help people … Continue Reading
August 05, 2025
The Hollywood Reporter: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and ‘Hacks’ Creator Paul W. Downs Talk Colbert Cancellation and Censorship
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Hacks creator Paul W. Downs have some thoughts, about the decision to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show, about censorship, and the role comedy plays in a healthy democratic society. Warren posted a video Tuesday to her YouTube channel, Facetiming into the Hacks writers room as Downs and his team brainstorm season five of the HBO Max comedy series, which takes a satirical look at Hollywood (and late night in particular), as well as topics that tough the third rail … Continue Reading
August 04, 2025
Business Insider: Trump's student-loan repayment overhaul could push borrowers out of the federal system. Democratic lawmakers want to know if private lenders are ready.
Private student lenders are on track for some good years ahead, Democratic lawmakers said. On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren led some of her Democratic colleagues, including Sens. Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden, in sounding the alarm on a potential influx of federal student-loan borrowers into the private lending market as a result of President Donald Trump's spending law. Trump's legislation included a major overhaul to student-loan repayment, including capping borrowing on graduate and … Continue Reading
July 31, 2025
The Hill: Warren questions HHS general counsel nominee about vaccines, abortion
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) on Thursday will press West Virginia state Senator Mike Stuart (R) about how his beliefs on topics like vaccines and abortion will impact how he potentially serves as general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services … Read the full story … Continue Reading
July 30, 2025
Punchbowl News: Warren dismisses approps bipartisanship
First in Punchbowl News: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will deliver a floor speech Wednesday outlining her opposition to participating in bipartisan appropriations negotiations. Warren, a leading Senate progressive, will argue that Democrats can’t trust Republicans to uphold any government funding agreement given the recent rescissions package. Here’s a key portion of the speech: “Why should Democrats come to the table in good faith and throw our support behind a quote-unquote bipartisan … Continue Reading
July 30, 2025
CNN: Electricity costs are rising under Trump. Democrats want to make it an issue for the midterms
President Donald Trump came into office promising to lower energy and electricity costs. But with the cost of electricity rising, congressional Democrats and left-leaning groups see an opening to go on the offense ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. A Wednesday letter led by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to six of Trump’s cabinet secretaries asks administration officials to explain why they are cutting programs to help Americans pay for high energy costs, while passing a … Continue Reading