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With anticipated control of the House, Democratic leaders have outlined a robust investigative agenda targeting executive branch corruption, civil rights violations, and financial abuses, emphasizing accountability and reader-funded journalism.
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With majority power comes bigger budgets and staff, and the ability to investigate, subpoena and potentially course-correct what the Democrats say are widespread corruption and abuses of power.
“There is a cost to the American people of the out-of-control corruption,” said Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who is in line to become House speaker if Democrats win control at the Capitol. “If folks have been stealing from the American people, shortchanging the American people or screwing over the American people,” Jeffries said, “we are going to hold the crooks accountable.
” Congress has enormous ability to conduct oversight of the executive branch as part of its power as a coequal branch of government, and a road map for the Democratic-run investigations has already been set by the almost daily letters lawmakers send to the administration and in amicus court filings.by Trump and his family, whose wealth has grown dramatically since he returned to the White House in January 2025. They are investigating the potential civil rights violations ofrecent acknowledgment Rep.
Jamie Raskin, D-Md. , who is in line to become the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, characterized the issues involved as “gargantuan. ”“We need to zero in quickly on the forms of systemic corruption that have cost the public huge amounts of money,” Raskin told The Associated Press, “and where there are legislative cures available. ” Rep.
Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, leaves a caucus meeting ahead of a House vote on a stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government fully funded through early December, avoiding the possibility of a shutdown before the midterm elections, at the Capitol in Washington, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. Jeffries will almost certainly be under pressure from the far left to move more swiftly to articles of impeachment against Trump, who during his first became the first president to beImpeaching the president a third time may not hold the currency that it once did.
Democrats will more likely focus their impeachment efforts on Cabinet members.
“We haven’t ruled anything out,” Jeffries said recently about the tools available to Congress, “and we haven’t ruled anything in. ” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. , talks to reporters about the approaching midterm election, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026.
The White House is likely to play hardball if confronted with investigations, and Democrats are bracing for an administration that potentially ignores subpoenas or refuses to turn over paperwork that lawmakers are demanding. The Democrats are also reaching beyond the administration into various corporate and business entities for potential wrongdoing. Ranking Democratic lawmakers who are in line to lead committees if power shifts are beginning to chart the investigations they plan to tackle. Rep.
Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat now on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has outlined five priorities, including Trump familyThe top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, whose jurisdiction includes the State Department, said the committee plans to investigate Trump’s international dealings, including around theRep.
Jared Huffman of California, the ranking Democrat at the Natural Resources Committee, which overseas the Interior Department and its National Park Service operations, has begun digging into Trump’s “vanity projects,” including the demolition of theAt the committee’s last session before lawmakers recessed to campaign for the midterm elections, Huffman said that if Democrats take charge, he plans to call witnesses, put them under oath and follow the evidence where it leads.
“When people ask what will we do,” he said he responds, “My answer is simple. We’ll use those tools. We’ll act like the Congress. ”
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