Members came in focused on procurement questions, but testimony quickly broadened into accountability failures.

Lawmakers opened the hearing with a tightly scoped oversight brief. Within the first hour, witness testimony widened the frame to include staffing, contractor governance, and response escalation. That shift matters because it changes the likely document trail. A procurement review can stay technical. A broader accountability review can pull in executive decisions, internal escalation logs, and enforcement memos that were never expected to surface publicly.

Oversight hearing opens with narrow mandate, then widens under pressure