Overview

• Chairman James Comer demanded transcribed interviews from five former Biden aides tied to allegations of autopen misuse and warned of immediate subpoenas after they failed to commit by the May 29 deadline.
• The probe centers on whether the autopen was used without President Biden’s explicit approval to sign executive orders and record-setting pardons during his final days in office.
• Lawmakers are investigating claims that senior staff concealed Biden’s advanced prostate cancer diagnosis before it was publicly disclosed on May 18.
• Senate Republicans led by Sens. Eric Schmitt and John Cornyn scheduled a Judiciary Committee hearing on June 18 to examine allegations of a coordinated cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline.
• Press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused former first lady Jill Biden of complicity in shielding her husband’s health status and called for her to testify.