Investigators want to know if the New Jersey Democrat offered to contact the Justice Department to try to help a man who was accused of banking crimes.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, who has Israeli and Russian citizenship, was abducted in March while doing research in Iraq “simply because she is Jewish and Israeli,” the two senators said.
The surge in migrants may indicate that new policies put in place by the Biden administration in May, which initially kept numbers low, may now be having less of an impact.
A plane carrying the five Americans and two of their relatives touched down in Doha, Qatar, earlier Monday. The Qataris helped broker the exchange between the U.S. and Iran.
In a letter, the senators asked whether Musk "personally intervened" to undermine Ukraine "at a critical juncture” and if so, what the Defense Department has done or can do about it.
So far in fiscal year 2023, 160 migrants whose identities match those on the list have been stopped trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, compared to 100 in 2022.
The FBI has created a stand-alone unit to investigate threats from members of the public who think agents and prosecutors haven't been tough enough on the president's son.