The Democrats in line to lead House and Senate committees after the party’s takeover of Congress in January have outlined plans to investigate President Donald Trump’s administration, his family’s business dealings, and companies that have done business with the White House.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), who is set to chair the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, responded on Nov. 3 to the results with a two-word statement: “Lawyer up.”

In the Senate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the expected chair of the Banking Committee, said on Nov. 8 that companies making “profits by cheating American families and scamming … investors” should “get ready for some investigations, serious ones.”

The president and his attorney general have answered with warnings of their own. Trump wrote in a Nov. 7 Truth Social post that Democrats’ threats amount to “extortion at the highest level,” and that he was ordering the Justice Department to look into them.

With majorities in both chambers, Democrats will control committee budgets and staff and will have the power to issue subpoenas for documents and testimony. The new Congress convenes on Jan. 3.

House Oversight: Miller, Musk, and the Trump Family

Garcia said the committee will investigate Stephen Miller, whom Trump named White House chief of staff on Nov. 6, replacing Susie Wiles.

Garcia called Miller the architect of a “horrific, unjust” immigration policy and alleged that he has been at the center of actions that are “unconstitutional, unjust, and possibly illegal.” In a statement after the appointment, Garcia said Miller “should lawyer up.”

Garcia said on CNN that a Miller investigation could cover an immigration policy that he said “separates families,” the detention of immigrants “where a few large companies are profiting,” and “the way that folks are losing their due process rights.”

“That has to be investigated,” he said.

Garcia added on CNN that members of the Trump family “should be expected to answer questions.”

He said Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, are possible subjects of investigations. Garcia also said Democrats want to know if donors to the White House ballroom project received favors in return, and he cited what he alleged to be pay-to-play pardons for billionaires and donors.

Other House Committees

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has said the panel plans to investigate Trump’s international dealings, including the war with Iran.

Committee Democrats demanded in March that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and Kushner testify about the war.

Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, has begun looking into what he criticized as Trump’s “vanity projects,” including the White House ballroom and a proposed triumphal arch to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, has promised “vigorous oversight” of the Pentagon.

The Senate

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is expected to become majority leader, said at a Nov. 4 press conference that “whenever Trump defies the will of the American people or the law, we will launch investigations, take him to court, and entangle him in legislative razor wire.”

Schumer said costs come first. “If we just did corruption, we’d be a loser,” he told The New York Times’ “The Daily” on Nov. 6, according to a transcript his office released. “You got to do some but not let it overshadow and take away what we can do on costs.” He said Democrats must look into “the most egregious examples of corruption.”

Impeachment

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who is expected to become speaker, said on ABC’s “This Week” on Nov. 8 that he is a “hard yes” on a resolution to impeach Hegseth that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has since reintroduced.

Jeffries alleged that Hegseth “abused his power, undermined our national security and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran,” according to remarks released by his office. He said House Democrats would discuss the resolution when they reconvene on Nov. 10.

Hegseth called the effort “sham articles of impeachment” in a post on X.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told WBUR, an NPR station in Boston, that Democrats have not announced plans to impeach the president. “It’s not a taboo for us, but it’s not a fetish for us,” he said.

The Administration Responds

In his Nov. 7 post on Truth Social, Trump said Democrats are threatening officials, including the attorney general, with impeachment and threatening Republican donors with imprisonment.

He called it “Weaponization and Lawfare at another level.”

“By copy of this statement, I am ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act, immediately!” the president wrote.

The Trump Organization, Garcia, Raskin, and Jeffries did not respond to requests for comment from The Epoch Times before publication.

Chase Smith; Jack Phillips; Ryan Morgan

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

BOOKMARKS

President Donald Trump said on Nov. 9 that additional military action in Iran was “quite unlikely” but said the United States will be “locked and loaded” if needed. “They’re talking to us, and they’re talking very politely. And we’ll see what happens. But there’s a good chance that that could get ended,” he added.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Monday. “By engaging in hostilities in Iran for more than 90 days without congressional authorization, Secretary Hegseth is breaking the law and must be held accountable,” Massie said in a press release.

The Supreme Court on Nov. 9 lifted a judicial block on the Trump administration’s border wall construction, allowing work to resume while litigation plays out. Find out more by reading Matthew Vadum’s latest.

Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) has won his bid for reelection, narrowly beating a Democratic challenger, Jonathan Nez. Crane, 46, won with 49.64 percent while Nez took 48.47 percent.

France has blamed the Iranian military for last month’s cyberattack on refrigerators in hundreds of supermarkets. The ministry said it has identified the Shahid Kaveh cyber offensive unit, affiliated with the electronic and cyber center of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as the culprit.

—Stacy Robinson