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23 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
New: We sent letters to the inspectors general for DHS and the Army Corp of Engineers, calling for investigations into troubling practices related to contracts for the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
americanoversight.org/american-overs…
The Trump admin. awarded border wall construction contracts to build on land it doesn’t own—so the federal government is paying tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a day in delay penalties.

We asked the IGs to investigate if the contracts constitute waste of taxpayer money.
The government is also using the costs caused by its cart-before-the-horse contracting approach to justify expediting the seizure of private land. Taxpayers and private landowners are being forced to bear the brunt of the government’s flawed strategy.
propublica.org/article/texas-…
We’ve been investigating since 2017 how the administration has used the promise of a border wall as a political rallying cry. Read more about our “Audit the Wall” investigation here:
americanoversight.org/investigation/…

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24 Dec
We obtained another production of DOJ communications that reveal more about Stephen Miller’s work with the Justice Department promoting anti-immigrant policies, including family separation.
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In April 2017, Miller emailed two DOJ officials: "Extremely positive reaction at [White House] to press activities from [Attorney General]. Double-up on it, & make the Long Island event a grand slam." Image
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23 Dec
New: Nevada Health Dept. documents we uncovered highlight the confusion over CDC’s initial vaccine instructions this summer & fall.

The records include communications about proposed vaccine distribution plans and state officials’ reactions to those plans.
americanoversight.org/nevada-health-…
The records include a handout from July 6 that listed 3 phases of vaccination, with the 1st phase beginning in October, & noted that the plan would be “constantly changing because it is not yet certain when a vaccine will become available & how it will be distributed to Nevada.”
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23 Dec
New: We uncovered DOJ records regarding Stephen Miller & immigration policy.

In April 2017, Miller emailed two DOJ officials: "Extremely positive reaction at [White House] to press activities from [Attorney General]. Double-up on it, & make the Long Island event a grand slam."
The “Long Island event” appears to reference a speech former AG Jeff Sessions gave April 28, 2017, in which Sessions promised to eradicate the MS-13 gang by cracking down on illegal immigration.
nytimes.com/2017/04/28/nyr…
The DOJ documents show further evidence of Stephen Miller and his allies, including ICE adviser John Feere, using DOJ to push anti-immigrant propaganda.
americanoversight.org/document/doj-r…
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22 Dec
New: The @HoustonChron reported on documents we obtained that show the Texas Attorney General’s office spent almost double the time working on voter fraud cases in 2020 than it did in 2018—logging over 22,000 staff hours—yet resolved half as many cases.
houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
The documents also show that between January and October 2020, Texas AG Ken Paxton gave the election integrity unit access to eight more law enforcement sergeants in addition to the nine already assigned to it, and doubled the number of prosecutors to four.
Despite the additional staff, in 2020, the Texas attorney general’s office resolved just 16 voter fraud prosecutions, all involving Harris County residents who used false addresses on the registration forms. None of the cases suggests widespread voter fraud.
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22 Dec
Lawsuit Update: Last year, we and @DemocracyFwd sued the VA to make them recover former Sec. Shulkin’s emails from his personal accounts.

Shulkin used personal email for official work, including with three members of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.
Because Shulkin used personal email, we were concerned that the public may not know the full extent of the Mar-A-Lago members' influence at the VA. So we sued.

Since then, Shulkin has turned over tens of thousands of pages of his emails to the VA.
americanoversight.org/more-examples-…
Shulkin also promised under penalty of perjury that he’s not intentionally withholding any emails, and he hired a law firm to ensure proper compliance.

Based on these assurances, we’re dismissing our lawsuit.
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22 Dec
New: We asked county and state election officials in Georgia to release communications with True the Vote—a group trying to prevent more than 350,000 Georgians from voting in the state’s upcoming runoff election.
americanoversight.org/american-overs…
True the Vote’s challenges to the voter registration status of 364,541 Georgians — which have already been rejected by several counties — cite questionable data and ask county election officials to preemptively void voters' registrations.
Yesterday, we filed open records requests in 15 counties seeking records of communications with True the Vote or the Public Interest Legal Foundation; state or local Republican party officials; or Georgia’s secretary of state’s office.
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