House Democrats create another bad faith effort to harass the President

Washington Examiner:

House Republicans believe Democrats are plotting to use a new coronavirus investigative committee to damage President Trump in the critical months ahead of the 2020 election.

The House will vote in an emergency session Thursday to pass a resolution creating a special House panel to oversee the distribution of billions of federal dollars dedicated to the response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Pelosi, a California Democrat, said the panel would “prevent waste, fraud, and abuse” and would be bipartisan. She appointed the House majority whip, South Carolina Democrat James Clyburn, to oversee the panel.

But Republicans say there’s another, more political purpose for the panel that follows in the path of the Democrats’ Russian collusion investigation and their impeachment of Trump over his efforts to get Ukraine government officials to investigate Joe Biden.

Democrats, they believe, will use the coronavirus committee as a platform to publicly excoriate Trump over his response to the coronavirus, which many Democrats have been harshly criticizing as negligent.

“This is just one more attempt by the Democrats to go after the president,” Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight panel, said.
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But Republicans point out there are already eight oversight entities that can ensure the money is not misspent, including a special inspector general and congressionally-appointed panel backed with $25 million in federal funding.

“The first eight are going to look out for the taxpayers,” Jordan said. “The ninth is going to look out for the Democrats’ candidate for president, Joe Biden.”

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, in a call with Pelosi Wednesday, told the speaker he believed the creation of the panel would be redundant and would serve a political purpose.
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Republican Hosue members have a good record of thwarting these bogus efforts to attack the President and I think they will expose the Democrats again.  But it does show how Democrats are more interested in pushing a political agenda than they are in solving the problems caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.  It is another example of how they have wasted their majority with frivolous investigations of the President instead to doing something to benefit the voters.