is being spent well. we want to look at this inflation reduction act and see how that money is spent. and be a check on the democrats, and you know, those are legitimate issues that i think actually affect real people s lives, and you can push some of the crazy oversight stuff. i mean, i ve seen this story many times before. i know how this ends. this ends when republicans go overboard on investigating and there s like nothing underneath, there s not any real problem. whether, you know, it was benghazi or whatever, what the republicans want to look at now, it ends with frustrated voters turning them out of office and reelecting democratic presidents. okay. that is what happened in 96. that is what happened in 2012 after the republicans took over the house in 2010. like, that is how this ends. so try something different. and have some faith in voters that they will respond to what
and sued mazar s accounting firm to try to stop them from complying with congress s subpoenas. judges in both of those cases sided with congress overwhelmingly and almost instantly ruled those subpoenas were valid and they must be respected. and those cases now are still being appealed. they ll still be worked out in the end but it was a really bad start for the white house. by the time congress the democrats in congress got to court, the courts were ready to hear their case and in both cases it was like a first-round knockout against the trump white house. i mean, on this oversight stuff with congress so far, the trump administration is 0 for 2. well, now as of today here comes number three. and this time it is the case on which the trump administration honestly would appear to have the worst legal prospects because the law in this case is so clear. this is the federal lawsuit today filed by the ways and means committee in the house against trump s treasury department and the irs de
courts you ve gone through all those steps. well, the only time the house has gone that far is when they sought trump s financial records from his accounting firm and his bank in order to look into allegations of bank fraud and insurance fraud that had been made against the president. the president then sued those companies, sued deutsche bank and used musab s accounting firm to try to stop them from complying with congress subpoenas. judges in both of those cases sided with congress overwhelmingly and almost instantly ruled those subpoenas were valid and they must be respected. and those cases now are still being appealed. they ll still be worked out in the end but it was a really bad start for the white house. by the time congress the democrats in congress got to court, the courts were ready to hear their case and in both cases it was like a first round knockout against the trump white house. i mean, on this oversight stuff with congress so far, the trump administration is 0 for 2
might have been determinetive in terms of who will run the senate. they have a hard row to hoe in mississippi now that the other republican candidate who drained 20% or whatever it was of the vote won t be in that race and it will just be head to head with cindy hyde-smith. but this election, for what it s worth, won t be technically over until much deeper in this month. in terms of the oversight stuff that s about to happen in congress, congresswoman edwards, i wanted to ask you, maxine waters financial services, richard neal, ways and means, jerry adler in judiciary, all the other chairs we re about to see, do you feel like the democrats have a good team on the bench ready to get in the there? do you feel like those chairs are just the project of seniority, or should they go through what their predecessors