.MaddowBlog: The Senate Republican majority takes a pass on oversight (again).
For the first two years of the Donald Trump presidency, congressional Republicans made a conscious choice to ignore practically every controversy, forfeiting the institution’s oversight responsibilities. Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders effectively conceded the point.
Sanders didn’t elaborate – I’m not sure if one unpopular package of tax cuts for the wealthy constitutes “success” – though it was reassuring to hear her acknowledge that the GOP-led Congress largely ignored its checks-and-balances duties for the first half of Trump’s term.
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