https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/house-investigations-trump-his-administration-full-list-n1010131
House investigations of Trump and his administration: The full list
The president says it's "harassment." Democrats say they're playing catch-up after two years with virtually no oversight from Republicans.
May 27, 2019, 12:02 PM EDT
By Alex Moe
WASHINGTON — He's making investigations great again — at least in number.
At least 14 Democratic-led House committees have been investigating various aspects of President Donald Trump's businesses, campaign and his presidency since the beginning of this year, an NBC News review shows. In all, those committees have launched at least 50 probes into Trump world.
The investigations include whether Trump obstructed justice in the Russia probes, whether his businesses inflated their assets, how his daughter and son-in-law obtained their security clearances, whether he used his power to interfere with mergers, how his actions might have slowed aid to Puerto Rico, and conflict of interest allegations involving cabinet members.
The NBC review shows the busiest committees appear to be the Judiciary and Oversight panels. Some of the inquiries might have gone dormant, and some are cross-committee — meaning they're being investigated jointly by more than one committee — so they are listed under those committees, but are only counted once in the NBC investigation total.
Here's a look at the probes that have been made public, organized by committee:
HOUSE INVESTIGATIONS
JUDICIARY: Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.
- Oversight of the administration's family separation policy
https://judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-judiciary-committee-announces-oversight-hearing-family-separation-policy
- Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker's appointment, his involvement in the Mueller investigation, and his conversations with Trump and involvement with World Patent Marketing
https://judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/february-8th-hearing-acting-attorney-general-matthew-whitaker
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/new-documents-show-acting-attorney-general-failed-to-pay-back-funds-after
- Voting rights and Department of Justice actions on voter ID, census cases
https://judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/following-hr-1-hearing-nadler-cohen-send-letter-doj-about-decisions-impact
- Easing of sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
https://judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-house-chairs-demand-answers-sanctions-relief-russian-oligarch
- Trump's national emergency declaration
https://judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/senior-judiciary-democrats-demand-answers-after-trump-declares-national
- The president's "threats to the rule of law," covering three main areas:
https://judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-judiciary-committee-unveils-investigation-threats-against-rule-law
1 Obstruction of justice, including the possibility of interference by Trump and others in a number of criminal investigations and other official proceedings, as well as the alleged cover-up of violations of the law;
2 Public corruption, including potential violations of the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, conspiracy to violate federal campaign and financial reporting laws, and other criminal misuses of official positions for personal gain;
3 Abuses of power, including attacks on the press, the judiciary, and law enforcement agencies; misuse of the pardon power and other presidential authorities; and attempts to misuse the power of the office of the presidency.
- Trump's interference in Time Warner merger
https://judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/nadler-cicilline-press-answers-whether-white-house-interfered-att-time-warner
- Threats to relocate migrants to sanctuary cities
https://judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/nadler-cummings-thompson-demand-documents-trump-administration-plan-treat
- Reports that the president said he would pardon acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan if he illegally closed the southern border to migrants
https://judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/nadler-lofgren-and-cohen-seek-documents-and-testimony-president-trump-s-reported
- Firings of senior leadership at DHS
https://judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-committees-investigate-unprecedented-firings-dhs
- The administration's decision to stop defending the Affordable Care Act in court
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-chairs-seek-documents-from-trump-administration-on-sudden-decision-to-stop
OVERSIGHT AND REFORM: Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
- Oversight of the Trump administration's family separation policy
- Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker's involvement with World Patent Marketing
- Reports that the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman was failing failing to carry out statutory duties to help those applying for legal immigration programs
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/cummings-seeks-documents-from-immigration-ombudsman-after-receiving-troubling
- White House security clearances
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-committee-launches-investigation-of-security-clearance-problems-at
- Inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-to-testify-before-oversight-committee
- Easing of sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
- Delayed back pay for federal workers impacted by the government shutdown
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/wexton-cummings-and-connolly-investigate-delayed-back-pay-and-payroll-problems
- Michael Cohen hush-money payments
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/president-s-lawyers-provided-false-information-to-government-officials-on-stormy
- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' efforts to replace her agency's acting inspector general
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-senate-democrats-send-secretary-devos-second-request-for-information
- Transfer of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/multiple-whistleblowers-raise-grave-concerns-with-white-house-efforts-to
- Child separation actions at DOJ, DHS and Health and Human Services
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-committee-approves-first-subpoenas-of-the-116th-congress-and-they-are
- Communications between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-releases?ID=26F8099B-F917-4F5F-8F90-5EAE8D34DF4E
- Michael Cohen's claims that Trump was improperly inflating financial statements
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/documents/2019-03-20.EEC%20to%20Wahba-Mazars.pdf
- Interior Secretary David Bernhardt's schedules
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2019-03-28.EEC%20Grijalva%20to%20Bernhardt-DOI%20re%20Calendars.pdf
- Trump's threats to relocate migrants to sanctuary cities
https://judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/nadler-cummings-thompson-demand-documents-trump-administration-plan-treat
- Use of private email accounts by Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and other White House officials, and use of messaging apps like WhatsApp
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5777402-Cummings-Letter-to-Cipollone-Kushner-WhatsApp.html
- Gag orders on White House staff
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2019-05-14.EEC%20to%20Mulvaney-WH%20re%20NDAs.pdf
- Title X gag rule regulatory review process
https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019-02-14.EEC%20Murray%20Hassan%20Harris%20to%20Mulvaney-OMB%20Rao-OIRA%20re%20Title%20X%20FINAL.pdf
- Potential lobbying conflicts of interest involving Environmental Protection Agency head Andrew Wheeler
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2019-02-13.EEC%20Rouda%20to%20Wheeler.pdf
- Interior Department's handling of FOIA requests
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2019-03-05.EEC%20Leahy%20Grassley%20Cornyn%20to%20Bernhardt-DOI%20re%20FOIA_0.pdf
- Abandoning plan to move FBI HQ building from Washington to suburban location
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/documents/2019-03-06.Joint%20Letter%20to%20Wray-FBI%20re%20FBI%20HQ.pdf
- Firings of senior leadership at DHS
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-committees-investigate-unprecedented-firings-at-dhs
- Trump Administration's response to hurricanes in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2019-05-06.COR%20Dems%20to%20Mulvaney-WH%20re%20Hurricanes%20Irma%20and%20Maria.pdf
- Trump Administration's decision to stop defending ACA
INTELLIGENCE: Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
- Russia investigation, including the scope and scale of the Russian government's operations to influence the U.S. political process, and the U.S. government's response, the extent of any links and/or coordination between the Russian government, or related foreign actors, and individuals associated with Trump's campaign, transition, administration or business interests, whether any foreign actor has sought to compromise or holds leverage, financial or otherwise, over Trump, his family, his business, or his associates; whether Trump, his family, or his associates are or were at any time at heightened risk of, or vulnerable to, foreign exploitation; and whether any actors — foreign or domestic — sought or are seeking to impede, obstruct, and/or mislead authorized investigations into these matters
https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=447
- Whether lawyers for Trump and his family obstructed committee's Russia probe
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-intel-committee-investigating-whether-lawyers-trump-his-family-obstructed-n1005676
- Trump's personal finances, including loans from Deutsche Bank
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-committees-subpoena-trump-s-bank-records-n994991
- Use of intelligence to justify building a wall at the southern border
https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=428
- Easing of sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
- Communications between Putin and Trump
WAYS AND MEANS: Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass.
- Easing of sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
- Trump administration's use of user fees generated by the Affordable Care Act
https://edlabor.house.gov/media/press-releases/democratic-health-leaders-question-trump-administrations-use-of-aca-marketplace-user-fees-
- Rule on short-term insurance plans
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/bicameral-democratic-health-leaders-demand-answers-trump-administration
- Trump administration's decision to stop defending ACA
- The president's personal and business tax returns
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/neal-statement-requesting-president-trump-s-tax-returns
ENERGY & COMMERCE: Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J.
- Short-term insurance plans
- How the administration is spending user fees generated by the ACA
- How HHS is caring for children impacted by the Trump family separation policy
https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/ec-leaders-demand-hhs-provide-information-following-alarming-new-reports-on
- EPA clean air rollbacks
https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/ec-democratic-leaders-demand-information-on-dangerous-epa-clean-air
- EPA political appointees blocking release of a chemical study
https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/ec-leaders-renew-information-request-on-whether-industry-influenced-epa-s
- EPA rollback of policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change
https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/energy-commerce-leaders-reassert-request-for-information-on-epa-s-efforts-to
- EPA political appointee steering litigation to benefit former client
https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/democrats-call-for-investigation-of-top-epa-officials-role-in-reversing
- EPA Officials ties to Utility Air Regulator Group
https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/ec-leaders-launch-investigation-of-secretive-front-group-uarg-and-its-ties
- Trump Administration's decision to stop defending ACA
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y.
- Communications between Putin and Trump
https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=403718
- Trump administration's failure to produce Russian sanctions report
FINANCIAL SERVICES: Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
- Easing of sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
- Trump's personal finances, including loans from Deutsche Bank
- Trump administration's failure to produce Russian sanctions report
- Reported ransom demand from North Korean government related to Otto Warmbier
https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=403693
HOMELAND SECURITY: Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
- Easing of sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
- Administration's border security policies
https://homeland.house.gov/news/correspondence/chairman-thompson-calls-secretary-nielsen-come-homeland-security-committee
- Investigation into Trump threats to relocate migrants to sanctuary cities
- HUD disbursement of Puerto Rico disaster relief funds
https://naturalresources.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-grijalva-velzquez-thompson-call-for-investigation-into-hud-departure-interference-in-puerto-rico-disbursements
- Firings of senior leadership at DHS
- Reports of ICE tracking Trump protesters
https://homeland.house.gov/news/correspondence/reps-thompson-rice-espaillat-clarke-demand-answers-reports-ice-tracking-trump
NATURAL RESOURCES: Chairman Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz.
- HUD disbursement of Puerto Rico disaster relief funds
- Interior Secretary David Bernhardt's schedules
- Agriculture/Interior Department decisions to further construction of a copper sulfite mine in Minnesota
https://naturalresources.house.gov/media/press-releases/chair-grijalva-chairs-mccollum-and-lowenthal-demand-answers-on-trump-administration-advancing-mining-near-boundary-waters-wilderness
VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Chairman Mark Takano, D-Calif.
- Travel expenses of a political appointee in the Department of Veterans Affairs
https://veterans.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-takano-demands-transparency-va-political-appointee-travel-expenses
- Potential influence of several Mar-a-Lago members on VA decisions
https://veterans.house.gov/news/press-releases/citing-new-evidence-chairman-takano-broadens-mar-lago-investigation
EDUCATION AND LABOR: Chairman Bobby Scott, D-Va.
- DeVos's efforts to replace the acting inspector general
- Administration's decision to rescind Obama-era guidance on school discipline
https://edlabor.house.gov/media/press-releases/murphy-kaine-mceachin-bonamici-write-letter-demanding-answers-after-devos-whitaker-end-civil-rights-guidance-for-school-discipline
- Trump administration's use of user fees generated by the Affordable Care Act
- Trump administration's decision to stop defending ACA
TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE: Chairman Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.
- Trump Hotel lease of Old Post Office building
https://transportation.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-defazio-rep-titus-press-gsa-on-the-repeated-refusal-to-respond-to-questions-surrounding-trumps-conflicts-of-interest
- Abandoning plan to move FBI headquarters from Washington to suburban location
APPROPRIATIONS: Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y.
- Use of Pentagon funds for border wall
https://appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-democrats-demand-information-on-use-of-pentagon-funds-for-trump-s-border
- National emergency declaration and border wall funds
https://appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/lowey-roybal-allard-quigley-and-yarmuth-call-on-omb-to-release-documents
BUDGET: Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky.
National emergency declaration and border wall funds
Alex Moe
Alex Moe is a Capitol Hill producer for NBC News covering the House of Representatives.
Dareh Gregorian contributed.
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