This doesn’t even make sense on its own terms, unless you were going out of your way to avoid finding any fault with how the Trump administration handled this because it’s all related.
This isn’t even “not playing politics.” It’s playing politics by avoiding questions that are of obvious public interest because you want to avoid the impression you’d do anything to oppose the president mismanaging a plague and economic collapse.
Even IF Trump was very popular right now and opposing him was bad politics, it would still be an abdication of their duties to the public to say, “we’re not interested in finding out why all these people are dying and losing their jobs.” It’s both politicizing and useless.
If you want a committee that will look into almost nothing and then find fault with nothing I’m sure the Senate Republicans who sold their stock before the crash can handle that on their own.
When this committee does nothing to deal with the underlying issues while avoiding holding those ultimately responsible for anything, the Republicans will pillory them for being partisan anyway, and every news presenter in the business will stroke their chin and nod sagely.
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