Fox News’ Jesse Watters said Tuesday that tensions between the White House and congressional Democrats escalated to “brass knuckle tactics” when a Democratic House committee chairman reportedly threatened to withhold the salaries of top officials of government agencies who do not comply with his panel’s investigations.
In a news release, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said he advised the Department of the Interior in writing that “any official at the Department who ‘prohibits or prevents’ or ‘attempts or threatens to prohibit or prevent’ any officer or employee of the Federal Government from speaking with the Committee could have his or her salary withheld pursuant to section 713 of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act.”
Other departments were sent similar letters, according to the release.
“Those are some brass-knuckle tactics,” Watters said on “The Five.”
“Why can’t we withhold their salaries, by the way?” Watters asked, referring to congressional Democrats. “They’ve lied for two years about the president.”
Watters said the situation could be described as “political warfare.”
He remarked that it would be difficult to withhold President Trump’s salary, because the president has made it a custom to donate the full amount to a government department he believes needs the funds.
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