Democrats to call on Vance to testify to House committee over Epstein files

11 June 2026 at 20:53

Plan comes after major New York Times report alleges files became source of crisis within Trump administration

Democrats on the House oversight committee, led by Representative Robert Garcia, plan to call on JD Vance to testify on the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files following a major report on Wednesday from the New York Times, which described how the Epstein files became the source of an internal crisis within Trump’s administration.

Garcia will call on the committee chair, James Comer, to summon the vice-president to speak, according to a post from Max Cohen, a reporter with Punchbowl News. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether Vance would agree to appear.

House Rejects Bill to Extend Surveillance Power With FISA Section 702 Set to Expire

NYT - Top Stories

By: Robert Jimison and Dustin Volz

11 June 2026 at 20:31

A measure to temporarily continue a key surveillance law failed in the House, and members left for a weeklong recess, making an expiration all but inevitable.

“We cannot allow that to go dark,” Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Wednesday as prospects for the law being renewed appeared increasingly grim.

US House will attempt to pass extension of powerful surveillance law

The Guardian - World news

By: Chris Stein in Washington

11 June 2026 at 14:59

Democrats say they will block renewal of Fisa over naming of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence

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The US House of Representatives will attempt on Thursday to pass a short-term extension of a powerful surveillance law amid controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s decision to install an inexperienced loyalist as the country’s top intelligence official.

Democrats have said they will block the move to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) in protest of Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte, a major Republican donor, as acting director of national intelligence.