Cummings Sues Trump Admin

Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee, was joined on Thursday by 16 colleagues to file a lawsuit in federal court against the Trump administration, in an attempt to unearth details about the Trump International Hotel in DC. The members sent a letter toTimothy O. Horne, the Acting Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) -- the agency responsible for leasing the Old Post Office Building where the hotel is located. “This hotel is not just a building with Donald Trump’s name on it,” Cummings said. “It is a glaring symbol of the Trump administration’s lack of accountability and a daily reminder of the refusal by Republicans in Congress to do their job.” A Democratic aide for the committee said the goal of the suit was threefold: to force the GSA to provide the committee with documents about the hotel’s ongoing operations; to calculate the payments foreign entities had made to the hotel; and to get a detailed explanation as to why the GSA reversed its position that Trump himself could not be a party to the lease. More here.