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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite House orders agencies to ignore Democrats oversight requests
The White House is telling federal agencies to blow off Democratic lawmakers' oversight requests, as Republicans fear the information could be weaponized against President Donald Trump.
At meetings with top officials for various government departments this spring, Uttam Dhillon, a White House lawyer, told agencies not to cooperate with such requests from Democrats, according to Republican sources inside and outside the administration.
It appears to be a formalization of a practice that had already taken hold, as Democrats have complained that their oversight letters requesting information from agencies have gone unanswered since January, and the Trump administration has not yet explained the rationale.
The declaration amounts to a new level of partisanship in Washington, where the president and his administration already feels besieged by media reports and attacks from Democrats. The idea, Republicans said, is to choke off the Democratic congressional minorities from gaining new information that could be used to attack the president.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/02/federal-agencies-oversight-requests-democrats-white-house-239034
At meetings with top officials for various government departments this spring, Uttam Dhillon, a White House lawyer, told agencies not to cooperate with such requests from Democrats, according to Republican sources inside and outside the administration.
It appears to be a formalization of a practice that had already taken hold, as Democrats have complained that their oversight letters requesting information from agencies have gone unanswered since January, and the Trump administration has not yet explained the rationale.
The declaration amounts to a new level of partisanship in Washington, where the president and his administration already feels besieged by media reports and attacks from Democrats. The idea, Republicans said, is to choke off the Democratic congressional minorities from gaining new information that could be used to attack the president.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/02/federal-agencies-oversight-requests-democrats-white-house-239034
It sounds like Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship.
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White House orders agencies to ignore Democrats oversight requests (Original Post)
Arkansas Granny
Jun 2017
OP
justgamma
(3,667 posts)1. Those who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. n/t
marybourg
(12,639 posts)2. Is it fascism YET? nt.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Until the so called Media works this story,
this will not change. All by design my friends. It will take a outside Governmental Agency to take the Trump Crime Family down.
malaise
(269,212 posts)4. Doesn't this violate the Constitution?
WHF!!