{"id":12970,"date":"2025-09-25T08:48:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=12970"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:48:49","slug":"thune-says-to-expect-explosive-oversight-hearings-on-trumps-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=12970","title":{"rendered":"Thune says to expect \u2018explosive\u2019 oversight hearings on Trump\u2019s powers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"641\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6.png 641w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says that Senate Republicans will conduct thorough oversight of President Trump\u2019s use of executive power and predicted there could be additional \u201cexplosive\u201d Senate hearings with senior Cabinet officials, similar to the fiery exchanges between senators and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thune said Wednesday that Republicans senators \u201chave a responsibility as an independent, coequal branch of the government to make sure that we\u2019re doing appropriate oversight of these decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pointed to what he called the \u201cexplosive\u201d Senate Finance Committee oversight hearing with Kennedy earlier this month, and predicted that his GOP colleagues wouldn\u2019t shy away from asking senior Trump administration officials tough questions at future hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere was a very, rather, I would say argumentative, explosive hearing a few weeks ago in front of the Senate Finance Committee,\u201d he said. \u201cI expect that will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thune made his comments during an interview with CNN\u2019s Dana Bash, who pressed the Republican leader about Senate committee chairs not doing more to push back on President Trump\u2019s threats to revoke the broadcast licenses of television networks that criticize him or the president\u2019s exhortation that Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecute his political opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bash read off a litany of Trump\u2019s most controversial recent actions, including firing the heads and board members of independent agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve, and the pressure on Bondi to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey. She asked whether Americans should take the \u201csilence\u201d of GOP senators as support for those actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thune laughed slightly and said \u201cthere\u2019s a lot of rhetoric\u201d but Republican senators will wait and see what actions Trump and his administration will take in the wake of the president\u2019s bombshell statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thune said he has \u201cevery confidence\u201d that Bondi \u201cis going to make good decisions with respect to how she uses her prosecutorial powers,\u201d and he pushed back on Trump\u2019s efforts to pressure Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think we ought to have an independent Fed. I\u2019ve said that, I\u2019ve made that abundantly clear,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South Dakota senator argued it\u2019s not unusual for presidents and members of their party to clash from time to time on the scope of executive branch power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been around several administrations, several presidents. Every one of them tries to assert as much executive power as they possibly can. And sometimes that gets tested in courts and obviously sometimes there\u2019s oversight that happens through the Congress, through the power of the purse,\u201d Thune said, referring to Congress\u2019s power under the Constitution to raise revenues and spend federal funding, something that Trump has challenged by trying to claw back billions in already appropriated dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says that Senate Republicans will conduct thorough oversight of President Trump\u2019s use of executive power and predicted there could be additional \u201cexplosive\u201d Senate hearings with senior Cabinet officials, similar to the fiery exchanges between senators and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this month. 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