Biden requests the release of visitor logs from the Trump administration.
Key Takeaways:
- The release of Trump White House visitor data to a House committee probing the January 6, 2021 incident has been requested by President Joe Biden.
President Joe Biden has called the release of Trump White House visitor logs to a House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riot, defying former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege once again.
The committee has asked the National Archives for a plethora of information, including presidential documents that Trump has battled to keep private.
The records being disclosed to Congress include visitor logs that detail who was allowed to enter the White House on the day of the insurgency and when they were authorized to do so.
White House counsel Dana Remus stated in a letter to the National Archives on Monday that Biden had considered Trump's claim that the records must be kept private because he was president at the time of the attack on the US Capitol, but that it was "not in the finest interest of the US" to do so.
Biden plans to request a defense budget of more than $770 billion.
According to three individuals familiar with the discussions, Biden is set to ask Congress for more than $770 billion for his US defense budget for the upcoming fiscal year as the Pentagon strives to modernize the force, exceeding former President Donald Trump's record budget requests.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's ongoing budget discussions with the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) have converged around a planned national defense request of more than $770 billion for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2023. The Pentagon sent questions to the Office of Management and Budget, which declined to comment.