Politico: Trump officials prepared to stonewall Democratic oversight demands
Trump doesn’t plan to negotiate with Congress over investigations the way his predecessors did.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler wrote to the White House last month demanding information about President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to fund the construction of a southern border wall.
Yet Nadler’s Feb. 22 deadline came and went with no response. Not only did the Democratic congressman not receive the documents he wanted, he didn’t even receive a customary letter back from the White House acknowledging his request.
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It was just one example of the Trump White House’s unusually hostile — or in this case, non-existent — response to congressional investigators.
In their early response to an onslaught of Democratic requests, Trump officials are breaking from norms set by previous administrations of both parties, according to people who worked in the White House or Capitol Hill during the presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.