Democrats—and some Republicans—suspect that the Trump administration is using shutdown-related delays as excuses to get out of providing documents and records to Democrats launching investigations on various House committees.
According to a Tuesday Politico report, Democrats are quickly tiring of the administration’s general lack of preparation to respond to oversight after two years of protection from a Republican congress.
“We are concerned that the administration is using the shutdown as an excuse to slow roll their responses to our reasonable requests,” a Democratic staffer told Politico. “Congress’ oversight role is crystal clear. Just because the administration is not used to rigorous oversight does not excuse not being prepared for it, even after a shutdown.”
The House Oversight Committee in particular has requested information about payments Trump made to Michael Cohen and about security clearances at the White House—both requests are still unfulfilled.
Imagine the outcry from the GOP if it was a Democratic president
The Republicans would have started impeachment on January 4th.
Impeachment Now!
Not going to work…his lies are too obvious and his bs too boring…
Amazing how many ways they’ve found to obstruct justice. It’s the one thing Trump and friends are good at. - to a point. They discover novel ways to obstruct, but ultimately their attempts keep getting exposed. For some reason, however, the exposure rarely brings more than a count or two and limited repercussions.
Well, of course they are. The Trump maladministration is not composed of the smartest folks in the world, but they’re smart enough to take this opportunity. Wouldn’t you?
But the shutdown is over, fading in the rear window (well, not for contractors who are not going to get paid for 5 weeks of twiddling thumbs, but for everyone else).