Democrats Weaponize Congress By Asking Where Money Went

Democrats have unveiled plans to use their new congressional majorities for the federal government’s most dangerous purpose: asking powerful people what they did with public money. Party leaders are preparing investigations into President Donald Trump’s family businesses, administration contracts, corporate influence, immigration enforcement and the government’s handling of the Epstein files. Robert Garcia and Jamie Raskin are expected to deploy subpoenas, hearings and document requests, reviving the radical precept that Congress should know what the executive branch is doing.

The campaign threatens Washington’s longstanding ethical consensus that corruption remains legal until somebody requests an invoice. “Nobody has ever seen investigations like these, where they demand documents and then read the documents, sometimes all the way to the bottom,” Trump said. “If Congress starts examining presidents, eventually they will examine everybody, including people who became tremendously wealthy only because they love America more than other people.” Hakeem Jeffries has declined to rule out impeachment, although Democrats say their immediate goals are exposing self-dealing and pursuing an affordability agenda. The two-pronged assault could force Americans to endure lower household costs while watching federal contractors explain themselves under oath.

Chuck Schumer has likewise promised scrutiny of “rampant corruption,” recklessly interpreting the Constitution to mean that lawmakers supervise the executive branch rather than applaud it. Republicans condemned the proposed inquiries as partisan retaliation, noting that accountability becomes divisive whenever it reaches a Republican. They also warned that examining presidential business relationships would establish a catastrophic precedent under which future presidents might have to distinguish foreign policy from customer acquisition. Democrats plan to begin the investigations in January, leaving lobbyists, consultants and presidential relatives little time to replenish the nation’s strategic reserve of plausible deniability. The gravest threat to American democracy is now a properly itemized receipt.

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