With less than 50 days to go until the election, exhausted House Democrats—staring down fresh oversight challenges from a president who just keeps on serving them up—are embracing a Jesus-take-the-wheel approach: putting faith in the voting public to exercise the ultimate check on Donald Trump.On a Tuesday
With less than 50 days to go until the election, exhausted House Democrats—staring down fresh oversight challenges from a president who just keeps on serving them up—are embracing a Jesus-take-the-wheel approach: putting faith in the voting public to exercise the ultimate check on Donald Trump.
“Impeachment is the tool the Constitution gives us to deal with serious abuse of power in between elections,” said Malinowski, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who was sharply critical of Trump during that impeachment process. “When you're two months from an election… the American people are going to have their say very, very soon.”
No Democrat is arguing that they should take a laissez faire approach to oversight of the Trump administration’s stewardship of the executive branch. But in a complete departure from their typical election-year form, many in the party are increasingly confident that the American people will exercise the ultimate check on Trump—by voting him out.
Johnson is expected to release a final report on his investigation within weeks; so too is Sen. Lindsey Graham , whose Senate Judiciary Committee is diving into a top hobbyhorse for Trump: the origins of the FBI investigation into his campaign in 2016. Graham announced on Thursday that former FBI Director James Comey will testify publicly for that investigation on Sept. 30.
A lead figure in that effort is poised to be Rep. Adam Schiff , the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. On Sept. 11, Schiff announced that his panel would be expanding its investigation into “politicization” at the intelligence service of the Department of Homeland Security.
There have been oversight victories on some of those fronts: in August, the House Oversight Committee held a high-profile hearing with the Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, that was central to their pushback on Trump’s handling of the USPS.
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