{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2025/5/psi-chairman-johnson-requests-transparency-from-biden-cabinet-officials-regarding-the-former-president-s-cognitive-decline/91a21b2f-61c2-45b0-b3a3-3de8d4f9efb5", "PSI Chairman Johnson Requests Transparency from Biden Cabinet Officials Regarding the Former President\u2019s Cognitive Decline", "2025-05-22", "2025", "2025-05", "Republican", "Senate", "WI", "Ron Johnson", "J000293", "www.ronjohnson.senate.gov", "ronjohnson", "https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (\u201cthe Subcommittee\u201d), sent letters to 28 former Biden Cabinet members regarding their knowledge of President Biden\u2019s cognitive and health decline during his time in office and while running for reelection. Chairman Johnson requested that these former public officials appear voluntarily before the Subcommittee for interviews by June 6, 2025.\n\nA recent book detailing the former president\u2019s cognitive and health decline while in office revealed that members of President Biden\u2019s inner circle were alarmed by the state of his health. One Cabinet secretary was reportedly left \u201cupset and disturbed\u201d after meeting with President Biden due to his \u201cmumbly and incoherent\u201d speech. As the chairman\u2019s letter noted, the reported behind-the-scenes concerns stand in stark contrast to Cabinet officials\u2019 public statements portraying the former president as healthy and mentally sharp.\n\n\u201cThe discrepancy between what Cabinet officials were telling the public about the former president\u2019s health and what they were apparently witnessing and saying privately is astonishing, particularly considering that the former president was seeking reelection. After years of being lied to and kept in the dark, the public deserves full and complete transparency about what was known and when concerning President Biden\u2019s health,\u201d Chairman Johnson wrote.\n\nThe letters went out to the following former Biden Cabinet-level members:\n\nLloyd Austin, former Secretary of Defense;\n\nXavier Becerra, former Secretary of Health and Human Services;\n\nJared Bernstein, former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers;\n\nAntony Blinken, former Secretary of State;\n\nWilliam J. Burns, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency;\n\nPete Buttigieg, former Secretary of Transportation;\n\nMiguel Cardona, former Secretary of Education;\n\nMarcia Fudge, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;\n\nMerrick Garland, former Attorney General;\n\nJennifer Granholm, former Secretary of Energy;\n\nIsabel Guzman, former Administrator of the Small Business Administration;\n\nDeb Haaland, former Secretary of the Interior;\n\nAvril Haines, former Director of National Intelligence;\n\nKamala Harris, former Vice President;\n\nRonald Klain, former White House Chief of Staff;\n\nAlejandro Mayorkas, former Secretary of Homeland Security;\n\nDenis McDonough, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs;\n\nArati Prabhakar, former Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy;\n\nGina Raimondo, former Secretary of Commerce;\n\nMichael Regan, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;\n\nJulie Su, former Acting Secretary of Labor;\n\nKatherine Tai, former United States Trade Representative;\n\nLinda Thomas-Greenfield, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations;\n\nAdrianne Todman, former Acting Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;\n\nTom Vilsack, former Secretary of Agriculture;\n\nJanet Yellen, former Secretary of the Treasury;\n\nShalanda Young, former Director of the Office of Management and Budget; and\n\nJeff Zients, former White House Chief of Staff.\n\nThe letters from Chairman Johnson can be found here.\n\nRead more about the chairman\u2019s letters here: Axios, Fox News, and Washington Examiner.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T00:49:36Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2025/5/psi-chairman-johnson-requests-transparency-from-biden-cabinet-officials-regarding-the-former-president-s-cognitive-decline/91a21b2f-61c2-45b0-b3a3-3de8d4f9efb5"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1766168754547834, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}