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Comer Subpoenas Biden’s Physician, Summons Five Aides in Expanded Health and Autopen Probe

The escalation follows refusals to give voluntary testimony, raising prospects for congressional rules on presidential fitness.

FILE - President Joe Biden walks along the Colonnade at the White House with his physician Kevin O'Connor, Aug. 28, 2023. O'Connor, known to President Joe Biden and others around the White House simply as "doc", has been a part of the president's life for more than a decade and was a central figure to the family when Biden's son Beau was dying of cancer. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
President Joe Biden speaks with White House Physician Kevin O'Connor as he arrives back at the White House in Washington, DC, on August 28, 2023, following a visit to Eliot-Hine Middle School.
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) speaks to a reporter as he arrives for a House Republican conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 6, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Overview

  • Chairman James Comer sent interview requests on June 4 to five former Biden advisers—Ron Klain, Anita Dunn, Michael Donilon, Bruce Reed and Steve Ricchetti—to probe the ex-president’s health and use of an autopen.
  • After Dr. Kevin O’Connor declined a voluntary transcribed interview, Comer issued a subpoena on June 5 compelling him to testify on June 27 about his medical assessments and financial ties to the Biden family.
  • The committee is examining claims that White House staff hid signs of Biden’s cognitive decline and used an autopen to sign executive orders and pardons without his full awareness.
  • Comer has warned that more subpoenas will follow for any aides who resist voluntary cooperation and referenced the book Original Sin as evidence of an internal cover-up.
  • Democrats have labeled the investigation politically motivated, and Biden’s team rejects allegations of concealed decline or unauthorized signature use.