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NEW: We sued the CFPB, CMS, USDA, OMB, and the State Department for senior officials' calendars — including the calendars of multiple U.S. ambassadors: americanoversight.org/document/compl…
Better than any press releases, calendars tell us what an official’s priorities are and whether outside interests are influencing policy. Here's what we've found out from agency calendars in the past:
We obtained newly confirmed federal judge Steven Menashi's calendars from his tenure at the Education Department, which show he worked to advance right-wing priorities on religion in schools and Title IX: americanoversight.org/what-we-found-…
New Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf told Congress he was uninvolved with the family-separation policy, but his calendars reveal the truth: americanoversight.org/document/dhs-c…
Transportation Secretary Chao prioritized requests from her home state of Kentucky and promoted her family's shipping company — according to calendars we obtained via litigation: americanoversight.org/elaine-chao-ca…
Chief oil and gas regulator Scott Angelle's calendars tell us that he prioritized meeting with energy industry interests over environmental groups: americanoversight.org/document/bsee-… eenews.net/stories/106113…
We've used calendars to find out who may be involved in the president's Ukraine dealings, scouring thousands of pages of calendars to find instances in which senior officials met with certain key figures in the investigation: americanoversight.org/trump-ukraine-…
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NEW: A federal judge declined to grant the government’s motion to dismiss our lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to recover the former secretary’s official emails from personal accounts: americanoversight.org/the-latest-in-…
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