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Republicans rip ‘partisan’ Pelosi panel on coronavirus response: 'This isn’t about oversight'

  

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Via:  heartland-american  •  4 years ago  •  11 comments

By:   Adam Shaw

Republicans rip ‘partisan’ Pelosi panel on coronavirus response: 'This isn’t about oversight'
"I want to remind everyone here in our nation's capital, especially in Congress, that this is not the time for politics, endless partisan investigations. Here we go again,” President Trump said on Thursday. “They've already done extraordinary damage to our country in recent years."


Trump and congressional Republicans are right.  This is the democrats latest witch hunt against our President.  


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Republicans are hitting back at what they say is a “partisan” move by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to form a new House committee  on the administration's response to the coronavirus crisis — arguing that there are already numerous additional oversight measures in the $2 trillion stimulus bill passed by Congress last week.

“This isn’t about oversight, it sounds like pure politics,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on “Fox & Friends” Friday. "Let’s take care of the crisis at hand right now. We have five different oversights already looking at this and this is what she comes up with?”

"I want to remind everyone here in our nation's capital, especially in Congress, that this is not the time for politics, endless partisan investigations. Here we go again,” President Trump said on Thursday. “They've already done extraordinary damage to our country in recent years."

Pelosi announced Thursday that she is creating a House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis. The committee will appoint both Democrats and Republicans, and will have subpoena power to seek information from the  Trump administration .


"It would have subpoena power that’s for sure. It's no use having a committee unless you have subpoena power," Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday during a teleconference call with reporters. "And we would hope that there would be cooperation because this is not a kind of an investigation of the administration it's about the whole [response]."

Unlike the 9/11-style after-action committee to investigate missteps in  the coronavirus response that Rep. Adam Schiff and others  have proposed, Pelosi said this committee is designed to address the "here and now" -- specifically concerning the allocation of the historic amount of federal funds directed to economic recovery.

But McCarthy noted that in the $2 trillion CARES Act that passed Congress last week, there were a number of extra oversight measures included related to the federal funding — and that’s not including the Oversight Committee itself, which is tasked with conducting oversight of the federal government.

Those measures include the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, made up of inspectors general to locate and investigate waste and abuse of spending under the bill, and in response to the crisis. It also sets up a Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery to conduct oversight over stimulus spending by the Treasury.

Also set up is a Congressional Oversight Commission to oversee spending by the Department of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. It is required to send reports to Congress every 30 days.

“That’s why in the CARES act we implemented three new oversight entities within there that [Pelosi] has an appointment to, but we already have the Oversight Committee only to focus on this, and we also have...every single committee has an oversight subcommittee,” McCarthy said.

“It seems to me that this is just politics as usual instead of focusing on the crisis we need to be today, focusing on the American public and getting the resources to them,” he said.


Trump has also sought  to paint the effort as part of an endless series of probes that includes the Russia investigation and the impeachment inquiry.

"It's witch hunt after witch hunt after witch hunt," President Trump said on Thursday. "And in the end it's people doing the witch hunt who are losing --- and they've been losing by a lot. And it's not any time for witch hunts."

The back and forth points to continued tensions between Democrats and Republicans. Republican lawmakers were furious at Pelosi’s approach to the spending bill, when she introduced a new spending package filled with what they saw as unrelated items such as environmental protections and requirements on the diversity of boards receiving federal money.

Trump’s anger at Democratic leaders was on full display Thursday when he sent a furious letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

"If you spent less time on your ridiculous impeachment hoax, which went haplessly on forever and ended up going nowhere (except increasing my poll numbers), and instead focused on helping the people of New York, then New York would not have been so completely unprepared for the 'invisible enemy,'" Trump wrote.

Fox News’ Marisa Schultz and Gregg Re contributed to this report.

Adam Shaw is a reporter covering U.S. and European politics for Fox News.. He can be reached  here .


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XXJefferson51
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1  seeder  XXJefferson51    4 years ago

“It seems to me that this is just politics as usual instead of focusing on the crisis we need to be today, focusing on the American public and getting the resources to them,” he said.



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Trump has also sought  to paint the effort as part of an endless series of probes that includes the Russia investigation and the impeachment inquiry.

"It's witch hunt after witch hunt after witch hunt," President Trump said on Thursday. "And in the end it's people doing the witch hunt who are losing --- and they've been losing by a lot. And it's not any time for witch hunts."

The back and forth points to continued tensions between Democrats and Republicans. Republican lawmakers were furious at Pelosi’s approach to the spending bill, when she introduced a new spending package filled with what they saw as unrelated items such as environmental protections and requirements on the diversity of boards receiving federal money.

  

Trump’s anger at Democratic leaders was on full display Thursday when he sent a furious letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

"If you spent less time on your ridiculous impeachment hoax, which went haplessly on forever and ended up going nowhere (except increasing my poll numbers), and instead focused on helping the people of New York, then New York would not have been so completely unprepared for the 'invisible enemy,' 

 
 
 
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2  squiggy    4 years ago

I'd love to see the empty box opened in October - along with an up-economy.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  squiggy @2    4 years ago

This just goes to show that getting President Trump is a bigger priority to them than finding common ground as we fight this crisis China sent us.  

 
 
 
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4  Vic Eldred    4 years ago

Like we didn't know what these degenerates would do next!

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Solid scum!

 
 
 
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5.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  squiggy @5    4 years ago

Take this nutsy Nancy!  

 
 
 
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6  seeder  XXJefferson51    4 years ago

President Donald Trump denounced Democrats for launching more “witch hunts” against him and his administration even as the nation is buckling under a global pandemic.

Trump slammed the “partisan investigations” by Democrats during Thursday’s White House coronavirus news briefing, declaring that this is “not any time” to further divide the country with their political maneuvering.

“We have seen Americans unite with incredible selflessness and compassion,” the president said as his coronavirus task force readied to deliver the day’s latest information regarding the COVID-19 crisis.

“I want to remind everyone here in our nation’s capital, especially in Congress, that this is not the time for politics. Endless partisan investigations — here we go again — have already done extraordinary damage to our country in recent years,” Trump said, alluding to the Russian collusion accusations that led to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as well as the House Democrats passing articles of impeachment against him.

“You see what happens. It’s witch hunt after witch hunt after witch hunt,” Trump continued, clearly referring to the efforts by Democrats to thwart and remove him from office even before he was sworn in as president.

The president’s rebuke followed an announcement this week by Rep. Adam Schiff that he was drafting legislation to investigate how Trump and his administration have handled the coronavirus emergency.

The House Intelligence Committee chairman explained that he is seeking to create a nonpartisan commission to probe the supposedly slow response of the administration at the outset of the pandemic which has already claimed the lives of more than 5,000 Americans.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi followed up on Thursday by announcing a new “partisan” House select committee – with subpoena power – to police how Trump’s administration handles spending the funds from the $2 trillion emergency coronavirus stimulus bill.

“Where there’s money, there’s also frequently mischief and we want to just make sure that the funds that are put out there are done so with the conditions that we had in the legislation,” the Democrat leader reportedly said.

The president has repeatedly slammed Democrats for refusing to cooperate and put Americans first, choosing instead to remain laser-focused on attempting to take him down by whatever means possible.

“And in the end, the people doing the witch hunt have been losing, and they have been losing by a lot. And it is not any time for witch hunts,” Trump said Thursday at the briefing. “It’s time to get the enemy defeated.”

He warned that continued witch hunts will backfire on Democrats again and only serve to “build up” his poll numbers.

“Conducting these partisan investigations in the middle of a pandemic is a really big waste of vital resources, time, attention, and we want to fight for American lives, not waste time and build up my poll numbers,” the president said.

“Because that’s all they are doing. Everybody knows it’s ridiculous,” he concluded. “So we want to focus on the people of this country, even the people of the world. We going to be able to help them.”

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin dismissed the idea of Pelosi’s committee as redundant.

“Both parties wanted us to have oversight, wanted us to have transparency. We have full transparency. We have an oversight committee that the speaker gets to pick someone. The leader gets to pick someone. I believe there’s five people on it,” he said at the briefing. “Again, that committee will review the money that we’re spending, and, again, we support full transparency, taxpayers should understand how we’re going to support this economy and jobs.”  

 
 

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