(Reporter Sha Hanting) The Oversight and Accountability Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives sent letters to several senior officials of the White House, the Department of Defense, and the State Department on the 17th local time, requesting them to submit documents related to the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by the Biden administration. The U.S. State Department issued a statement on the same day saying that as of November 2022, the State Department has held 150 briefings on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan to members of Congress from both parties.
(Reporter Sha Hanting) The Oversight and Accountability Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives sent letters to Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, and James Biden, the younger brother of Biden, on the 9th local time, asking them to provide information related to foreign commercial activities, etc. .
(Reporter Sha Hanting) According to data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce on the 7th local time, the U.S. trade deficit will increase to 948.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, a record high. As the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates and the consumption attitude of American consumers tends to be more cautious, the possibility of the US economy entering recession this year is increasing.
On August 9 this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the District of Columbia ruled that the House Ways and Means Committee has the right to obtain Trump’s tax records from 2015 to 2020 from the Internal Revenue Service under the U.S. Treasury Department. Trump’s legal team filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court on the same day, asking the Supreme Court to suspend the implementation of the above ruling, so that the IRS temporarily refrains from submitting Trump’s tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee.
(Reporter Shahanting) International Monetary Fund (IMF) President Georgieva said in Washington on the 6th local time that the risk of a recession in the global economy is increasing, and the IMF will lower its forecast for global economic growth next year. Inadequate tightening of monetary policy will cause inflation to become more stubborn and more difficult to address, causing more damage to economic growth and well-being.