Reports
ROUNDUP: False Statements By Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Signal Messaging Scandal
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified before both the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. Their appearances follow the news of a Signal chat used by top Trump administration...
STATEMENT: Rep. Darrell Issa Makes Outrageous Accusation About ActBlue
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Press Contact: esperanza@focalpointstrategygroup.com Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, U.S. Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued an outrageous letter to FBI Director Kash Patel asserting that the fundraising platform...
MEMO: After Weeks Of Destroying The Federal Government, Trump Turns His Attention To Attacking Civil Society, Universities, Organized Labor, and the Private Sector
TO: Interested Parties FROM: Congressional Integrity Project RE: After Weeks Of Destroying The Federal Government, Trump Turns His Attention To Attacking Civil Society, Universities, Organized Labor, and the Private Sector DATE: March 19, 2025 After weeks of unlawful...
STATEMENT: Congressional Integrity Project Warns Of Dangerous Precedent As Trump Administration Freezes Climate Grant Accounts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, March 14, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: esperanza@focalpointstrategygroup.com Washington, D.C. - The Congressional Integrity Project today expressed grave concern over recent actions by the Trump administration targeting climate grant recipients...
FACT SHEET: Trump and Musk are Tanking the U.S. Economy and Hurting Everyday Americans to Benefit Themselves
As Economy Hangs On Cliff of Recession, the DOGE CR Gives It a Big Shove Since taking office, President Trump and Elon Musk have pursued a singular campaign to tear down public services trusted by everyday Americans so they can privatize the government and enrich...
As Trump Hawks Teslas on the White House Lawn, House Republicans Pass Funding Bill to Benefit Elon Musk’s Companies at FAA
Washington, D.C. – As Donald Trump took time out of his day yesterday to host a Tesla showroom on the White House lawn, complete with a full sales pitch, House Republicans passed a government funding bill that would give the Federal Aviation Administration a $4...
STATEMENT: Vance, Vought Urge Republicans to Pass Funding Bill Citing Trump’s Ability to Override Federal Spending, Upend Checks and Balances
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: esperanza@focalpointstrategygroup.com Washington, D.C. – As the March 14 deadline for a potential government shutdown nears, Republicans are just now realizing that the shutdown under their total control...
Trump Pushes to Create New Agency to Fund Proposed U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, Tapping Wall Street Insider in Latest Power Grab
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: esperanza@focalpointstrategygroup.com Washington, D.C. — President Trump is set to appoint Michael Grimes, prominent technology investment banker, to lead the new proposed U.S. sovereign wealth fund,...
Weekly Weaponization Report
This week marked the conclusion of six weeks under the Trump Administration, and the weaponization efforts show no signs of slowing. President Trump, alongside Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, is relentlessly pushing the limits of our checks and...
THIS WEEK: While Pushing Medicaid Cuts and Tax Breaks for the Rich, Congressional Republicans Focus on Defending Trump’s Imperial Presidency in Bogus Hearings
Amid House Republicans’ efforts to pass a budget resolution that slashes over $800 billion in Medicaid and other critical federal programs relied upon by millions, all to fund tax cuts for billionaires and corporations, these lawmakers have spent the majority of their...
STATEMENT: House Republicans to Vote on Speaker Johnson’s Already Rejected Cuts to Medicaid, SNAP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, February 24, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: esperanza@focalpointstrategygroup.com Washington, D.C. – Tomorrow, February 25th, the House is scheduled to vote on its budget resolution, which will kick off the reconciliation process toward...
Donald Trump’s Illegal Funding Freeze Continues to Hurt Everyday Americans
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, February 21, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: nicole@focalpointstrategygroup.com Washington, D.C. — President Trump's executive order halting all federal grants and loan disbursements continues to have widespread, tangible consequences for Americans...
ICYMI: Washington Post: After Ceding Power of the Purse, GOP Lawmakers Beg Trump Team For Funds
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: nicole@focalpointstrategygroup.com Washington, D.C. — In the latest reporting from the Washington Post, Republican senators are facing the consequences of surrendering their congressional authority...
ICYMI: Elon Musk and Trump Are Infiltrating The IRS To Target Their Political Adversaries
President Trump and his far-right billionaire oligarch boss Elon Musk have spent the first month of Trump’s second term going after their political enemies. First, they fired dozens of non-partisan inspectors general working to identify and prevent waste, fraud, and...
STATEMENT: Senate Judiciary Republicans Bow to Trump By Voting to Advance Patel’s Nomination
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI Director to the full Senate. Earlier this week, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General...
Copy-and-Paste: House Republicans’ Latest “Censorship-Industrial Complex” Hearing Rehashes Tired Old Conspiracy, Features Duplicate Witness Slate
Tomorrow, House Judiciary Republicans are holding a hearing continuing to push the same web of lies and conspiracy theories about so-called conservative censorship that they have been spinning for the past four years. Since 2021, they have obsessed over Hunter Biden’s...
Trump Is Putting President Musk In Charge of Gutting the Department of Education
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, February 10, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: nicole@focalpointstrategygroup.com Washington, D.C. — In the latest chapter of Elon Musk’s growing influence over the U.S. government, "President" Trump has appointed Musk and his Department of...
Weekly Weaponization Report
Donald Trump’s Latest Abuses of Our Checks and Balances In the third week of Trump’s presidential term, the Trump administration has resorted to dismantling federal agencies and ordering investigations into corporations and broadcast networks to implement Trump’s...
STATEMENT: Republican Senators Give Away Congress’s Power of the Purse to Unelected Bureaucrat Russ Vought, Billionaire Elon Musk
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, February 6, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: nicole@focalpointstrategygroup.com Vought Now Has Senate Republicans’ Blessing To Usurp Congress’s Constitutional Powers Over Spending Vought’s Confirmation Will Lead Directly To Cuts In Vital Resources...
STATEMENT: Republican Senators Abdicate Their Power By Voting For Russ Vought
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednday, February 5, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: nicole@focalpointstrategygroup.com WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Wednesday February 5th, the Senate voted on a Motion to Invoke Cloture on Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director nominee Russell...