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'We're going to court': Democrats sue ICE for blocking them from detention facilities
MSNBC· 2025-08-01 13:10
A dozen House Democrats who were stopped from visiting immigration detention facilities are now suing the Trump administration. The group argues that a new Department of Homeland Security policy limiting lawmakers access by requiring them to provide a week's notice for any visit is illegal and it infringes on their ability to conduct congressional oversight. Joining us now, Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman of New York.He is one of the dozen Democrats seeking to have the new ICE guidance on congressional v ...
Soboroff on House Democrats SUING Trump admin. over access to ICE facilities
MSNBC· 2025-08-01 03:44
There's another lawsuit against the Trump administration. This time it is from sitting members of Congress. A dozen House Democrats are suing the Trump administration alleging a new DHS policy is illegally infringing on their ability to conduct congressional oversight of ICE facilities.The policy requires a minimum of 7 days notice to get into detention facilities and it limits access to certain field offices also, which they say violates a federal law that allows for unannounced inspection by sitting membe ...
NEC Director Kevin Hassett: The Fed needs more congressional oversight
CNBC Television· 2025-07-14 15:21
Kevin, I think you intimated that it might be possible to fire uh uh Chair Pal. What what would be how does that how does that process work in your view. Well, again, we'll we'll see how the Fed responds to this incredible cost overrun.The bottom line is from from my perspective that when the Federal Reserve was created, we were under a gold standard. And the idea that the Fed could print money and then spend two and a half billion dollars on a building without real real congressional oversight, it didn't o ...