Huh?
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) wants hearing on his parties felon President use of executive power?????
This when Thune and House Speaker Johnson have NOT lifted one finger limit or counter actions that Trump & Co. have done that overrun’s Congress’s wishes, powers, or actions?
Trump & Co. have said OUT LOUD over and OVER that the President Can and Should do Whatever he wants….
Fededra courts have disagreed with this …
But?
The Alito Court HAS Trump back in it’s rulings…
Trump actions so far are NOT a laughing Matter….
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says that Senate Republicans will conduct thorough oversight of President Trump’s use of executive power and predicted there could be additional “explosive” Senate hearings with senior Cabinet officials, similar to the fiery exchanges between senators and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this month.
Thune said Wednesday that Republicans senators “have a responsibility as an independent, coequal branch of the government to make sure that we’re doing appropriate oversight of these decisions.”
He pointed to what he called the “explosive” Senate Finance Committee oversight hearing with Kennedy earlier this month, and predicted that his GOP colleagues wouldn’t shy away from asking senior Trump administration officials tough questions at future hearings.
“There was a very, rather, I would say argumentative, explosive hearing a few weeks ago in front of the Senate Finance Committee,” he said. “I expect that will continue.”
Thune made his comments during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, who pressed the Republican leader about Senate committee chairs not doing more to push back on President Trump’s threats to revoke the broadcast licenses of television networks that criticize him or the president’s exhortation that Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecute his political opponents.
Bash read off a litany of Trump’s most controversial recent actions, including firing the heads and board members of independent agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve, and the pressure on Bondi to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey. She asked whether Americans should take the “silence” of GOP senators as support for those actions.
Thune laughed slightly and said “there’s a lot of rhetoric” but Republican senators will wait and see what actions Trump and his administration will take in the wake of the president’s bombshell statements….