When Donald Trump and Republicans warn about what could happen if Democrats retake the House, Rep. Elijah Cummings is one of the major things they’re warning about. Cummings would take the chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and he is already making his list of things to investigate.
Cummings is prepping targets—from the security clearances of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, to digging into how former EPA chief Scott Pruitt was able to keep his job for so long—and the list is getting longer by the week.
Will he trust administration officials, even when they’re under oath?
“Oh no, no. Uh-uh. No,” Cummings said. “I worry more about getting documents. If I can get documents, it doesn’t matter.”
Cummings is a low-key, non-grandstanding, hard worker with bales of integrity—even Jason Chaffetz, the former Republican chair of the Oversight Committee, acknowledges that Cummings signed on to hundreds of oversight letters during the Obama administration. The Trump administration is going to resist oversight with everything they have, officials are going to lie under oath, there are going to be legal challenges galore … but the alternative is continuing Republican complicity.
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