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U.S. federal agency that maintains the United States Capitol Complex
Coverage by fact-checkers and contemporaneous reporting shows that the decision to call the National Guard on January 6, 2021, was made by the Capitol Police Board and Pentagon officials, not unilater...
Multiple contemporaneous official inventories and photo reports from January 2021 make , while some contemporaneous statements and later commentary claimed rioters smeared feces and urine inside the b...
The estimated dollar value of direct physical damage to the U.S. Capitol during the January 6, 2021 riot varies across official filings and later government tallies: early Justice Department and Archi...
Estimates of damage to the U.S. Capitol from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack vary across official filings and reporting: the Architect of the Capitol and related agencies put direct property damage to the Cap...
Available reporting shows President Donald Trump discussed and floated deploying National Guard forces around January 6, 2021, but there is no consensus in the record that he specifically ordered troo...
The primary on-the-ground responsibility for security at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, rested with the United States Capitol Police (USCP), led at the time by Chief Steven Sund; oversight and p...
On Jan. 6, 2021 the formal chain of authority to request National Guard support for the Capitol ran through the Capitol Police Board — composed of the House and Senate sergeants at arms and the Archit...
Available reporting and fact‑checks show there is no credible evidence that Nancy Pelosi personally refused National Guard assistance before Jan. 6, 2021; responsibility for calling the Guard rested w...
Estimates of property damage from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack vary widely: law‑enforcement and court filings put direct Capitol property damage in the low millions (about $1.5 million to ...
Reporting establishes that the Trump campaign and related entities spent money tied to the January 6 rally and post-election fundraising that supported efforts to “stop the steal,” but sources differ ...
The claim that there is a specific, disclosed “total cost” for President Obama’s conversion of a White House tennis court into a basketball-capable court in 2009 is not supported by the available repo...
The pay and expense framework for U.S. senators combines a base salary subject to annual adjustments, a suite of appropriated allowances for official duties (staff, offices, travel, mail, interns), an...
The Capitol Police Board—comprised of the House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, the Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger, and the Architect of the Capitol—decided on January 3, 2021, not to request a...
Congress changed the formal approval path after Jan. 6 so the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief can directly request the D.C. National Guard or federal law-enforcement assistance in an emergency withou...
Former House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving and former Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger gave testimony that differs from Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund’s account about when formal National Guar...
The Capitol Police Board — the three-member panel composed of the House Sergeant at Arms, the Senate Sergeant at Arms and the Architect of the Capitol — opted not to pre-authorize a National Guard dep...
Public reporting around an alleged $376 million White House renovation under Barack Obama is inconsistent: some outlets describe a multi-year institutional modernization tied to the Obama years and ci...
Official reporting in 2010 and later contemporaneous coverage describe a multi-year White House infrastructure program sized at roughly $376 million launched under the Obama administration to repair a...
Multiple government agencies, courts and news organizations have produced videos, photos and sworn witness testimony that document federal law‑enforcement presence and actions on January 6, 2021 — inc...
The narrowly defined property damage to the U.S. Capitol from the January 6, 2021 riot has been reported in the low millions — with federal prosecutors and early government filings putting the figure ...