House Democrats plan to investigate Ivanka Trump's use of personal email for government business
Source: Washington Post
The House Oversight Committee plans to investigate whether Ivanka Trump violated federal law by using a personal email account for government business, the panel's incoming chairman, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), said Tuesday.
In a statement, Cummings said the committee launched a bipartisan investigation last year into White House officials' use of personal email accounts, but the White House did not provide the requested information. "We need those documents to ensure that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and other officials are complying with federal records laws and there is a complete record of the activities of this Administration," Cummings said.
In what appeared to be an acknowledgment of the potential risk of a backlash against Democrats for aggressively probing the Trump administration, Cummings also emphasized that his focus upon becoming chairman of the committee will be to address the everyday issues impacting Americans. "My goal is to prevent this from happening again -- not to turn this into a spectacle the way Republicans went after Hillary Clinton," he said.
American Oversight, the liberal watchdog group whose record requests led to the discovery regarding Ivanka Trump's use of her personal email, said in a letter to the top members of the panel and the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier Tuesday that "it is incumbent on Congress to investigate this matter immediately." It drew a comparison between the use of personal email accounts by President Trump's daughter, a White House senior adviser, and Hillary Clinton when she was serving as secretary of state under President Barack Obama.
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