House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thomas (D-MS) are demanding documents related to the recent spate of firings at the DHS.
“We are deeply concerned that the firing and forced resignation of these officials puts the security of the American people at risk,” they wrote. “We are also concerned that the President may have removed DHS officials because they refused his demands to violate federal immigration law and judicial orders. Moreover, we are concerned by reports that, even as he has removed the Department’s leadership, the President has sought to empower a White House aide, Stephen Miller, to ‘be in charge of handling all immigration and border affairs.’”
The chairmen also say that the White House has declined to make Miller available for committee testimony.
In the past few weeks, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, DHS Undersecretary for Management Claire Grady, Secret Service Chief Randolph “Tex” Alles and ICE chief nominee Ronald Vitiello all got the axe, leaving a few other officials in a precarious position.
Read the letter here:
It is going to be a long (not quite) two years of stories like this, and the refusals to cooperate.
Hopefully they’ll have their Sternly Worded Letter ready to go. Then we can get straight to the House being given the finger, rather than waiting a few weeks first.
At this point, we should have our form letter all ready and waiting.
Nadler will have to do something severe about the inevitable rebuffing he’ll shortly receive. I bet he goes after them, hard. In a week. Or two. Or ten.
He might even hold a press conference, or go on Meet the Press. That will show 'em.