Three high-profile cases that angered some Republicans in Congress have been reopened or given more resources by the FBI, according to Deputy Director Dan Bongino's announcement on Monday.
A 2021 pipe bomber on the evening of January 6, the discovery of cocaine at the Biden White House during the Fourth of July weekend in 2023, and a leaked draft of a historic Supreme Court decision are all part of these cases, as Breitbart News reported.
"Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest," Bongino posted on X. "We made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases."
"I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress," he added. "If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI."
The Secret Service dropped the case on July 12, 2023, after concluding that it could not identify a suspect, despite the fact that cocaine was discovered at the White House in July 2023, over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
There was, allegedly, no surveillance footage of the drug incident, according to the White House. Investigators claimed that hundreds of people had access to the location where the cocaine was, according to law enforcement at the time.
"Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered," the FBI said in a statement that July.
"At this time, the Secret Service's investigation is closed due to a lack of physical evidence."
House Republicans voiced their disapproval of the investigation's conclusion, claiming that it put the White House's security at risk.
"This alarming development requires the Committee to assess White House security practices and determine whose failures led to an evacuation of the building and finding of the illegal substance," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, (R-KY), wrote on July 7 to then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.
The leak of the judgment in Dobbs v. Jackson, which sent abortion rights choices to the states after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, is also being investigated by the FBI. After looking into the leak, the investigation authority of the Supreme Court was unable to identify the leaker.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito authored the opinion that was leaked and published by Politico on May 2, 2022.
The court was unable to identify the leaker of the opinion, even though an internal investigation questioned more than a hundred Supreme Court personnel. However, during the course of the investigation, no justices were examined.
"Yesterday's unprecedented leak is an attempt to severely damage the Supreme Court," then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise said at the time.
"This clearly coordinated campaign to intimidate and obstruct the Justices of the United States Supreme Court, and its independence in our political system, from upholding the Constitution must be immediately investigated by the court."
A new book released on Tuesday alleges that a small group of advisors known informally as "the politburo" was running the country during the Biden administration, and that former President Joe Biden was no more than a "senior board member."
"Original Sin: " by liberal journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, detailed the inner workings of the administration in an attempt to figure out what was going on behind the scenes and what went wrong with his re-election bid.
The members of the alleged "politburo" included Biden's senior advisors and longtime friends, but also First Lady Jill Biden and son Hunter Biden--neither of whom had anywhere near the experience or the public support to be running the country.
“In terms of who was running the White House, it’s a small group of people that have been around,” author Alex Thompson told PBS’ “Washington Week” on Friday. “Some people within the administration called them the Politburo. That’s the term we used in the book.”
“Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board,” a source close to the White House told the authors.
An unidentified cabinet secretary said about the politburo,, “I’ve never seen a situation like this before, with so few people having so much power. They would make huge economic decisions without calling [Treasury] Secretary Yellen.”
“Many of Biden’s own aides were also kept at arm’s length from the president," the book said.
The reason Biden was put up for another term was because the politburo thought it was getting a lot of good things done, and they (not Biden) deserved four more years.
It's normal for a president to have advisors around and to consider many other opinions before making decisions.
It's not so normal to have the president be an advisor to the group that's really running things.
In many cases, according to the book, Bidne was little more than a mouthpiece for a cabal that's really in charge.
He was akin to a a rubber stamp for what the group wanted to do. The use of the "autopen" was one example of how Biden wasn't really in charge or aware of everything that being carried out by his office.
No doubt he agreed with much of it, but that's not how the presidency is supposed to work.
The public had a sense of this and rejected it soundly. There were many questions asked about who was really running the country that were never answered, and voters didn't stand for it in 2024.
The Supreme Court issued a decision pausing a lower-court ruling that sought to obtain records from the Department of Government Efficiency, otherwise known as DOGE.
A ruling issued on Friday put a pause on an order from a federal judge ordering that DOGE comply with freedom of information requests seeking thousands of pages of material.
Chief Justice John Roberts issued the decision to pause the order as the Supreme Court considers the future of the litigation against the agency created by entrepreneur Elon Musk in order to cut government waste and inefficiency.
This means the Trump administration will no longer be required to respond to FOIA requests from leftist activist groups seeking to stop DOGE from dismantling corrupt government agencies that have been wasting billions.
DOGE administrator Amy Gleason, who has taken over the agency as Musk has returned to the private sector, will also no longer have to stand for a deposition.
The Trump administration has been battling frivolous lawsuits for the past few months as leftist activists and the bureaucratic deep state seek to stop President Donald Trump's radical reforms addressing decades of corruption.
Activist groups claim that DOGE is a federal agency since it has the power to fire government workers, cut federal grants, and reduce government spending.
If DOGE is a federal agency, it would be subject to federal transparency rules and required to respond to FOIA requests for internal documents and records.
The Trump administration has refuted claims that DOGE is a federal agency, pointing to the fact that DOGE is merely advising the Trump administration on making cuts. The true decision-making power still resides with federal agencies and the White House.
U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper ordered DOGE to respond to FOIA requests in March in a decision saying that, "the public would be irreparably harmed by an indefinite delay in unearthing the records CREW seeks.”
However, this discovery process is now on hold due to the Supreme Court's order, and it is highly likely that DOGE will be operating without intervention for some time as the Supreme Court tackles more important issues.
In the five months since Trump assumed power in the White House, DOGE has cut billions in government waste using a relatively small team of trusted individuals.
DOGE's cuts to wasteful federal agencies immediately ignited outrage among Democrats who zealously defended wasteful and corrupt agencies, igniting speculation that powerful politicians were using corrupt agencies to direct taxpayer dollars to themselves.
Unfortunately, DOGE's cuts have done little to keep up with the growing debt, thanks to years of out-of-control spending by the Biden administration.
However, the Trump administration had to start somewhere with cutting waste, and DOGE has been doing amazing work saving taxpayer dollars.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been cleaning house at the National Security Council at the direction of President Donald Trump.
Rubio has been on a mission to purge the 'deep state' from important government boards and councils, as well as fundamentally reshape certain government bodies to fight the shadow government that has been running Washington D.C. for decades.
President Trump has made the National Security Council an important target for reform. The Council is a notoriously bureaucratic institution staffed by career officials who oppose Trump's agenda.
One unnamed White House official stated, "The NSC is the ultimate Deep State. It's Marco vs. the Deep State. We're gutting the Deep State."
Of the 350 staff, about half have been cut and moved to other agencies to reduce the influence of the NSC and the bureaucrats who have enjoyed unchallenged rule for years.
In a statement to Axios, Rubio explained, "The right-sizing of the NSC is in line with its original purpose and the president's vision. The NSC will now be better positioned to collaborate with agencies."
Over the past years, the NSC has become instrumental in carrying out policies instead of its original advisory role. Because of the NSC's multi-layered committee system, the organization is completely inefficient in executing policy as opposed to advising.
Another White House official pointed this flaw out by stating, "That's the bottom-to-the-top approach that doesn't work. It's going away. All those things feeding up to principals are the unnecessary piece."
Purging the NSC and reforming it is crucial to President Trump's mission to reshape American foreign policy.
In contrast to past presidents, Trump's foreign policy prioritizes American interests, global peace, and stability. An example of this policy is Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Syria to encourage stability in the region, despite the fact that Syria's leader is classified as a terrorist.
The mission for Rubio is to reshape government to immediately and quickly respond to the orders of President Trump. If Trump wants it done, it needs to be done, instead of being filtered through four layers of committees staffed by career bureaucrats.
Rubio is flexing his power in cleaning up government agencies, and one staffer told Axios, "Marco is the one in charge and calling the shots."
When Trump nominated Rubio to be his Secretary of State, some were concerned that he wouldn't have the fortitude to be ruthless in making cuts. However, it appears that Rubio has proven to be a warrior for Trump's agenda and is determined to dismantle the 'swamp.'
The NSC isn't the only corrupt government body that Rubio has had a hand in dismantling. Rubio has been hard at work for months destroying the corrupt money laundering scheme that was USAID.
Americans who voted for Trump in November ought to be excited by the work that the Trump administration is doing to cut down and burn Washington D.C.'s corrupt bureaucracy.
U.S. District Judge David Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana struck down a Biden-era rule that required employers to give workers time off for abortions on Wednesday, saying that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) overreached its authority when it included abortion with pregnancy-related conditions that receive job protections.
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) was passed in 2022 with bipartisan support.
The text of the act requires employers with 15 or more employees to provide “reasonable accommodations to a worker’s known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions."
During the review process, the EEOC got 54,000 comments urging it not to include abortion in the rule, while 40,000 commented in favor of adding it.
The suit was brought by attorneys general of Louisiana and Mississippi, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic University and two Catholic dioceses.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill celebrated the decision: “Victory! A federal court has granted Louisiana’s request to strike down an EEOC rule requiring employers to accommodate employees’ purely elective abortions. This is a win for Louisiana and for life!”
A Better Balance, a legal advocacy group that supported the PWFA, conversely described the ruling as a part of a “broader attack on women’s rights and reproductive freedom.”
While the Trump administration is not likely to appeal the ruling, it has defended the PWFA under other circumstances.
The DOJ has not been super-friendly to life so far, which is odd because Trump had a big part in overturning Roe V. Wade.
Earlier in May, the agency tried to get legal challenges brought by Missouri, Kansas and Idaho to restrict access to the abortion pill dismissed.
Abortion pills account for the vast majority of abortions in the U.S.
Trump has resisted GOP pressure to outlaw abortion on a national level.
He most recently expressed some support for a 15-week abortion ban, which would not prevent most of these early-term, pill abortions.
This dichotomy is difficult to understand, but it seems to be a more nuanced view of abortion than many Republicans want to see.
After weeks of talks, the House passed the "big beautiful bill" that is at the center of the president's plan in a close vote just before 7 a.m.
Early in the morning on May 22, the House of Representatives passed a bill to carry out President Donald Trump's executive and economic agenda. This ended weeks of talks and uncertainty in the House Republican conference, as The Daily Caller reported.
The House barely passed the bill by a vote of 215-214, largely along party lines. The vote happened just before 7 a.m., after the lower house had been debating all night.
The bill is now on its way to the Senate, where changes are likely to be made. If there are any disagreements, they will have to be worked out in a meeting before going to Trump's desk.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) applauded the bill after it made it through the lower chamber of Congress, saying: “It’s a great day to be an American. It’s great to be a Republican.”
Johnson said he believes the law is a strong reflection of the conservative party's principles, including fiscal discipline, personal liberty, and limited government.
The speaker said that he had doubts about the party's ability to come together on the bill.
“I give glory to God,” he said. “There’s a lot of prayer that brought this together.”
Some Republicans were less than positive about the bill, however, and declined to support the legislation over spending concerns.
“It’s a debt bomb,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) told reporters about the recently passed legislation.
Two Republicans from Ohio, Massie and Warren Davidson, voted against the measure. The House Freedom Caucus chair, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), did not cast a vote.
Those holdouts plus the close margins in the House caused the long-term debates over the bill.
Trump offered his thanks for the bill’s passage, calling the package “arguably the most significant piece of Legislation” in the country’s history.
“Now, it’s time for our friends in the United States Senate to get to work, and send this Bill to my desk AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!” he wrote on Truth Social.
House members finally returned to work at approximately 11:00 p.m. on Wednesday following a 21-hour hearing in the House Rules Committee. That marathon cleared the package for a vote on the floor.
In the evening of May 21, Republican leaders released an addition to the megabill that was made to address concerns from moderates and fiscal conservatives in the Republican conference.
According to the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver is facing assault charges following a confrontation with federal officers outside of an immigration detention facility.
According to a social media post by Interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, McIver is facing charges of assault, obstruction, and interference with law enforcement. However, the court documents that would provide more details regarding these charges were not immediately made public or released online.
Rarely do federal criminal charges other than fraud or corruption land a sitting congressman in court, as in the case of McIver, as The Hill reported.
"It’s political intimidation, and I’m looking forward to my day in court,” she said Tuesday. McIver had called the charges “purely political” in a statement on Monday night and said she looked forward “to the truth being laid out clearly in court.”
She continued by stating that she and her coworkers were reacting to inappropriate behavior by law enforcement.
“Earlier this month, I joined my colleagues to inspect the treatment of ICE detainees at Delaney Hall in my district. We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short," the lawmaker said.
"Instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor Baraka,” she said.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche came to Habba’s aid in a statement on X, saying that “assaults on federal law enforcement will not be tolerated.”
Newark mayoral candidate Ras Baraka was arrested on May 9, along with McIver and two other House Democrats, but Habba says her office has withdrawn the trespassing charges against him.
"After extensive consideration, we have agreed to dismiss Mayor Baraka's misdemeanor charge of trespass for the sake of moving forward," Habba said.
I echo what @USAttyHabba has made clear: assaults on federal law enforcement will not be tolerated. This Administration will always protect those who work tirelessly to keep America safe. https://t.co/v8bMYwtY7i
— Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) May 20, 2025
After the DOJ filed the charges against the Democrat for her alleged assault on police officers, Republican Representative Nancy Mace made the announcement that she had submitted a resolution to oust McIver from Congress.
According to Mace, "Mclver didn't just break the law, she attacked the very people who defend it.
"Attacking Homeland Security and ICE agents isn't just disgraceful, it's assault. If any other American did what she did, they'd be in handcuffs.
McIver thinks being a member of Congress puts her above the law. It doesn't. She should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace files a resolution to expel Rep. LaMonica McIver after the DOJ charged the Democrat with allegedly assaulting law enforcement: pic.twitter.com/Zfa3CrMLsG
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) May 21, 2025
The Senate on Monday confirmed real estate mogul Charles Kushner, pardoned by President Donald Trump during his first term in office, as the U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco in a 51-45 vote.
Kushner is the father-in-law to Ivanka Trump. He was convicted in 2005 of tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions, and retaliating against a cooperating witness.
He served two years in a minimum security prison and had stayed out of trouble since then.
Kushner, who lived in New Jersey, made many philanthropic contributions during his life. There is a wing named after his family in St. Barnabas Hospital in Essex County, New Jersey; he also gave large donations to Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
If all he wanted to do was give away too much money, that would be one thing. But he also schemed to get back at a witness against him--his sister--by arranging for a prostitute to seduce her husband and filming it.
That's a really slimy thing to do, and he admitted it when he pled guilty to the charges against him.
He said during his confirmation hearing that he learned from his mistakes of almost two decades ago.
"I think that my past mistakes actually make me… better in my values to really make me more qualified to do this job," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Let's hope he's learned his lesson. Not only will he be representing the U.S. in France and Monaco, but he is also intertwined in Trump's family because he's Jared Kushner's father and the other grandfather to some of Trump's grandkids.
Trump seems to think he learned. During his nomination announcement in November, he called Kushner a "tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our country & its interests."
"He was recognized as New Jersey Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, & served as a commissioner, & chairman, of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, as well as on the boards of our top institutions, including NYU," Trump said.
"Congratulations to Charlie, his wonderful wife Seryl, their 4 children, & 14 grandchildren," Trump continued. "His son, Jared, worked closely with me in the White House, in particular on Operation Warp Speed, Criminal Justice Reform, & the Abraham Accords."
Rewarding a convicted felon with an ambassadorship doesn't seem like the best move for Trump to make--although after the pardon, Kushner isn't a convicted felon anymore.
Guess we'll find out how Kushner does as the liaison to one of our biggest allies.
Donald Trump Jr. became the first public figure on Sunday to break an hours-old "truce" between Republicans and Democrats that began after former President Joe Biden's metastatic prostate cancer diagnosis when he called out 'Dr. Jill Biden' for missing the fact that her husband was ill with cancer.
"What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???" Trump Jr. captioned a repost of a doctor's post calling the missed diagnosis "malpractice."
What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup??? pic.twitter.com/fSqtDmcX4p
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 18, 2025
The post came just hours after President Donald Trump wished Biden well on Sunday, publicly confirming the diagnosis that was apparently first made on Friday.
"Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery."
Trump Jr. posted a similar message on X right after the announcement: "BREAKING: Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Politics aside, we wish him a speedy recovery!"
But it didn't take long for politics to creep back in, after a number of medical professionals questioned how the cancer could have gotten so bad without anyone catching it.
The questions are valid. Apparently, anyone over 80 is tested for prostate cancer. Why wasn't Biden tested?
Like Dr. Quay posted, "It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed."
Another post by Trump Jr. hearkened back to two years ago when Biden said during a speech that he had cancer.
At the time, the White House and the media called it a "gaffe" and said that he misspoke, but questions linger about whether he just said what was true but that was being covered up until now.
It was further suggested in the comments of Trump Jr.'s post that the breaking news of the diagnosis may have been a "Wag the Dog" attempt to distract from increasing reports that Biden had dementia while president.
It's not completely inappropriate to ask these questions when the facts seem incongruous and don't seem to make sense.
It is possible to wish Biden well in his recovery while at the same time wondering if the truth about the diagnosis had been covered up for Democrats' political advantage.
President Donald Trump can't stop winning, and his approval ratings are climbing thanks to his successful diplomacy that has resulted in multiple massive trade deals.
After some economic turbulence in reaction to Trump's radical new trade policies, the market is stabilizing, and the economic outlook is vastly improved, just five months into Trump's 2nd term in the White House.
Thanks to massive trade deals signed with the United Kingdom and China, Americans' economic prospects are rising, and voters are happy with Trump's performance in righting the ship after the disastrous Biden years.
According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, Trump stands at a 44% approval rating, which is up two points from last month at the height of market chaos caused by Trump's massive tariffs.
Trump's bold tariffs may have caused market chaos, but they brought multiple countries to the negotiating table, resulting in long-term trade deals.
Democrats distorted the reality of Trump's trade policy to score quick wins, which led to Trump's approval numbers dropping. However, now that the fruit of Trump's policies is manifesting, Trump's approval numbers are climbing, and Democrats are fuming.
The poll found that 39% of adults nationwide give Trump a thumbs up for his handling of the economy, which is three points higher than it was from last month's poll.
Republican strategist Colin Reed told Fox News that Trump has "been very clear-eyed about the fact that you are going to have to break some eggs to make an omelet and his voters will give him the latitude to do so."
That omelet that Trump made was a trade deal with China, resulting in a reduction in China’s tariffs and eliminating retaliation while retaining a U.S. baseline tariff on China that will benefit American businesses.
Trump's trade deal with the U.K. also eliminated substantial tariffs going both ways, putting the U.K. and the U.S. on equal footing, which has been a big objective for Trump's foreign economic policy.
Trump is working hard to fix decades of inequality that have allowed foreign trade partners to take advantage of American economic dominance. So far, Trump is making good on his promises to equalize the playing field and put America first.
Aside from trade deals with the U.K. and China, Trump has also succeeded in securing hundreds of billions in foreign investment.
A deal signed with the United Arab Emirates will see over $200 billion invested in the United States, boosting investment from Gulf countries to over $2 trillion. Saudi Arabia and Qatar will also be investing massive sums over the coming years.
After months of hearing about how Trump would ruin America's image on the world stage, the truth is finally out. Trump is commanding respect on the world stage and signing massive deals to spur economic growth, something that many doubt former Vice President Kamala Harris would have been able to do.