The Trump administration signaled it would respond aggressively to a Democratic-led Congress with a letter this week threatening to prosecute lawmakers for oversight efforts.
The letter from White House Counsel Will Scharf sent Monday to House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., argued that members of Congress have limited authority to conduct oversight of a presidential administration and that some of the threats to issue subpoenas “may cross the line into blatant criminality.”
