Elijah Cummings, a passionate advocate for civil rights who became a foil to Trump, has died at 68
Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Representative Elijah Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who became chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, died early Thursday in Baltimore. His office said he died of “complications concerning long-standing health challenges.” Cummings was 68.
Cummings’s initial efforts to work with the Trump administration on bipartisan measures were ignored by the White House, and as the ranking Democrat on the Oversight Committee he eventually became one of Trump’s biggest foils in the House. He led multiple investigations into the president, and called Trump’s obstruction of these efforts “far worse than Watergate.
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