The White House has repeatedly rebuffed House Democrats’ oversight demands, from requests for Trump’s taxes to testimony from the former White House counsel. Here are the major battles being waged and where they stand:
The White House has repeatedly rebuffed House Democrats’ oversight demands, from requests for President Donald Trump’s taxes to testimony from the former White House counsel. Democrats have gone so far as to issue subpoenas in some cases, but Trump has vowed to fight each one.Democratic demand
: The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena for the unredacted Mueller report and all underlying evidence.: The Justice Department has refused, citing laws blocking the disclosure of grand jury information. Democrats issued a subpoena for the report on April 19 and the Justice Department defied a May 1 deadline, citing efforts to work with Congress to provide a largely unredacted report to a select group of senior lawmakers.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time.contain damaging details about Trump but because Democrats have spent months attempting to retrace Mueller’s steps on their own.White House pushback: Democrats are privately working on the logistics with the Justice Department but so far haven’t reached a deal. Democrats are eyeing May 15 but have not gotten confirmation from Mueller that he will attend, and Trump’s claims of executive privilege could delay any testimony. In May, Trump reversed himself and stated that Mueller “should not testify.”
Democrats see Mueller’s testimony as the linchpin of their investigative efforts, the moment when he will help crystallize for the country the import of the evidence he gathered on Russia’s effort to support Trump’s election and Trump’s effort to obstruct his investigation. But little is known about whether Mueller wants to testify, whether he’s prepared to say anything outside of the findings from his report or if he’ll take any issue with Attorney General William Barr’s handling of his work.
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