Overview

• House Republicans introduced legislation to form a select committee under Rep. Buddy Carter to examine claims that Biden’s team concealed signs of cognitive and physical decline, including his stage four prostate cancer diagnosis.
• Oversight Committee Chair James Comer has requested interviews and signaled potential subpoenas for former White House aides and Dr. Kevin O’Connor to investigate the autopen’s use in signing official documents.
• Senate Judiciary leaders Sens. Eric Schmitt and John Cornyn announced a June 18 hearing to determine who effectively ran the administration during Biden’s final years in office.
• White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt urged former First Lady Jill Biden to testify before Congress about what she knew of her husband’s health struggles and alleged cover-up.
• Former President Biden made public remarks in Delaware since beginning cancer treatment, defending his mental fitness and dismissing accusations that aides conspired to hide his decline.