FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., revealed to Fox News Digital that he is one of three Republicans in Congress who was surveilled by the Biden administration’s "Quiet Skies" program, a program that has been shut down due to overreach concerns.

Earlier this week, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Rand Paul, R-Ky., convened a hearing examining alleged Biden administration abuse of the program, which was terminated by DHS in June, and revealed that three current Republican members of Congress were surveilled or monitored either as a sitting member or while seeking elected office.

GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh tells Fox News Digital he was informed that he was one of those members of Congress and was surveilled in December 2022.

"It sadly doesn't surprise me," Hamadeh explained. "At the time, if you remember, I mean banks were shutting down accounts if they promoted conservative viewpoints, if they were selling ammo or guns and the banks were being pressured by the Biden administration. You had social media companies censoring political voices that they didn't agree with. So it shows you the depths that the federal government, how much sway they have, not just within the bureaucracy of the government, but also with private organizations and private actors as well."

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Hamadeh called the timing of his surveillance "interesting" because "during the time period that I was challenging the results of my election in 2022 when I was running for attorney general, where that race was decided by 280 votes out of 2.5 million."

Hamadeh continued, "You know, this is a very legitimate challenge. This is something that both sides of the aisle have done routinely. So you don't know if that was a factor. And I would assume so, because at the time it was such a hostile environment with President Biden when he was in power. I mean, my God, they were calling MAGA fascists. They were calling us threats to democracy constantly."

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Hamadeh also called it "peculiar" that he is a former U.S. Army Reserve intelligence officer with top secret clearance who traveled overseas both on deployment and in his personal capacity. 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in June it would be ending the Quiet Skies program, which left some Americans subject to additional screenings at airport security.

The department says the agency was overly politicized to either benefit or hurt specific people and ran a bill of roughly $200 million annually. According to DHS, the program kept a watchlist as well as a list of people exempted. The department says Quiet Skies has not prevented any terrorist attacks but will continue to use other methods to assure safe air travel.

"It is clear that the Quiet Skies program was used as a political rolodex of the Biden Administration — weaponized against its political foes and exploited to benefit their well-heeled friends. I am calling for a Congressional investigation to unearth further corruption at the expense of the American people and the undermining of US national security," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.

The TSA's "Quiet Skies" program was established in 2010 to identify passengers for enhanced screening on some domestic and outbound international flights.

Paul said earlier this year that he received records confirming that federal air marshals surveilled now-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard during domestic flights last year, "reporting back information related to her appearance and even how many electronics she was observed using." 

"I'm glad to see that the Senate, Senator Rand Paul got to the bottom of it and also that Department of Homeland Security has now effectively terminated the Quiet Skies program as well," Hamadeh told Fox News Digital. 

"Also, it's odd that there's only three Republican members of Congress that were targeted. I mean, I'm assuming, there's Democrats who have a lot of interesting travel here that I serve with as well. I'm sure that there are things that would flag them. So it makes you question what the Biden administration, who they were focusing on, who they were targeting specifically. I mean look at Tulsi Gabbard. I mean what? What a complete 180 for now to have her be running the intelligence agencies as the director of national intelligence. And it goes to show you what we were fighting."

In a press release earlier this week, Paul commended Noem for ending the program but said the work is "not done."

"We must make sure that this program does not come back under another name. Every official who directed or approved surveillance of Americans for protected speech must be removed from office. Full transparency must become the rule rather than requiring a year of investigation," Paul said. "The result will be a process that respects the Constitution, ends real life shadow bans against Americans and gives all of us the assurance that our government is focused on protecting us, not on chasing political ghosts."

Fox News Digital reached out to Biden's office for comment.

Fox News Digital's Cameron Arcand contributed to this report

When Marjorie Taylor Greene first came to Congress, it is fair to say, she was viewed as something of a kook.

She indulged in conspiracy theories and repeated Q’Anon quackery, which she later acknowledged was a mistake.

But now MTG has evolved into President Trump’s most vociferous critic – which is especially noticeable in a party that follows their leader at almost every turn.

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The Georgia congresswoman, an ultra-conservative, still says she likes Trump, but she’s largely in the business of denouncing him on various issues. And that hasn’t exactly gone unnoticed.

When you spend a little time with Marjorie, you quickly realize that she’s smarter than her media image and a shrewd practitioner of the political game.

After she was elected, Greene faced a censure vote for having "repeatedly fanned the flames of racism, antisemitism, LGBTQ hate speech, Islamophobia, anti-Asian hate, xenophobia, and other forms of hatred." She also "mocked the Holocaust" and said "Joe Biden is Hitler."

But the Democratic member pushing the resolution withdrew it at the last minute. Greene, though, was not put on any committees.

The media and political community started taking her more seriously when she became a key ally of Kevin McCarthy and helped get him elected House speaker, despite rumors that he might quit the race.

"That was something that the media kept spinning around," she told me on "Media Buzz." "They were trying to say that Kevin McCarthy would drop out or that the conference was going to pull away. Absolutely not. And President Trump really helped with that."

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She held up the phone when Trump said he wanted to talk with another Republican, Matt Rosedale, who refused to take the call.

Trump "was angry," Greene told me. "He yelled at me on the House floor, telling me, don't you ever do this. I was so surprised. I couldn't understand. I was holding out my phone, saying, it's President Trump, he wants to speak with you."

Greene couldn’t save McCarthy when he was deposed, and she was on her own again.

Now the New York Times is portraying her as part of a growing MAGA divide.

Greene has been pushing for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. And a Trump official made it known that would be viewed as a hostile act.

MTG told the Times that she called a top White House aide.

"I told them, ‘You didn’t get me elected. I do not work for you; I work for my district.’ We aren’t supposed to just be whipped on our votes because they’re telling us what to do with this scary threat, or saying ‘We’ll primary you,’ or that we won’t get invited to the White House events."

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Her attitude: "[Expletive] you."

Greene has also challenged the president on foreign policy, saying she still believes in the concept of America First. Proudly proclaiming herself to be a Christian nationalist, she was the first Hill Republican to accuse Israel of genocide: "You can’t un-see dead children. That’s not fake. It’s not war propaganda."

She is also an ardent critic of federal funding for Ukraine and voted against aid packages, despite Trump’s new support for the sovereign country invaded by Russia. Greene not only says taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be used to fund foreign wars, but she has clashed with Speaker Mike Johnson, attempting to oust him for depending on Democratic votes to pass Ukrainian aid.

Greene, who has also opposed the White House on artificial intelligence, is clearly enjoying her newfound independence. She posted this: "If you tell the base of people, who support you, of deep state treasonous crimes, and rich powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take down every enemy of The People."

Otherwise, "the base will turn and there’s no going back."

It’s not that MTG still doesn’t say wacky things. After the murder of Charlie Kirk, she called for a "national divorce" in which the country’s red states would secede from the blue states. How exactly would that work?

"There is nothing left to talk about with the left. They hate us," she said.

MTG’s boyfriend is Brian Glenn, chief White House correspondent for Real America’s Voice, who usually asks the president friendly questions (and chided Volodymyr Zelensky for not wearing a suit). She was married to her ex-husband for 27 years before he filed for divorce.

Whatever her ambitions, she recently passed up potential runs for governor and the Senate. 

"One day," she says, "I might just run without the blessing from the good ole boys club or the out-of-state consulting leeches or even without the blessing of my favorite president."

In the meantime, a lower profile is not exactly in the cards.