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🚨🚨🚨 Late breaking Friday news: Trump taps White House attorney to be inspector general over $2T coronavirus package

Barney Frank: "[A] blatant conflict of interest... The job of White House counsel is to represent the president. It's contemptuous."

washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
So far we've seen:

-- WH say they will not abide mandate that IG can blow whistle to Congress on withheld information

-- Trump say, "I'll be the oversight"

-- Nomination of WH attorney to key IG post

Dems insist oversight will be there
What recourse do Democrats have if they feel Trump is failing to uphold key provisions of the law?

File a lawsuit

Which would, of course, take months to adjudicate -- likely irrelevant until long after it matters
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