Would a campaign spare Pompeo from scrutiny - or expose him to further investigations? He has a Monday deadline to decide whether to run for Senate.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democrats said the firing was possibly criminal if it was retaliatory.
“There are claims that this was a retaliation for some investigation that the inspector general’s office here was engaged in. It’s patently false,” he told reporters last week. The 1939 Hatch Act bars federal employees from using their office to campaign or engage in partisan activities — aAnother probe has examined Trump’s decision a year ago to declare an emergency that would allow the administration to circumvent Congress and sell more than $7 billion inMembers of Congress from both political parties last year opposed the arms sale because of Saudi Arabia’s killing of civilians in the conflict in Yemen and its role in assassinating a U.S.
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