Cabinet officials and other Trump appointees have upended the normally staid congressional hearings with performances that, at times, appear to be designed for the viewer in chief.
Brett M. Kavanaugh appears at his confirmation hearing at the Hart Senate Office Building on Sept. 5, 2018, in Washington. By Seung Min Kim Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow April 16 at 6:09 PM Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was growing increasingly impatient as he sparred with Rep. Maxine Waters in a recent hearing — and he did not hesitate to show his annoyance.
It’s another way those around Trump — or those seeking to influence him — are speaking to the president through television, as some Cabinet officials use the power of the president’s favorite medium to showcase their aggressive defense of the administration and their eagerness to challenge increasingly antagonistic Democratic lawmakers.
In February, then-acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker took a page out of Kavanaugh’s playbook, sparring repeatedly with Democratic lawmakers pressing him on the extent of his involvement with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Then the acting attorney general, Matthew G. Whitaker collects his papers as the House Judiciary Committee takes a temporary adjournment on Feb. 8. White House officials were thrilled at the combative approach Whitaker took at the hearing shortly before William P. Barr was confirmed as attorney general, according to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, while Democrats said they were dismayed.
“Do you know how many kids are going to be affected by that cut, Madam Secretary?” Pocan asked DeVos.“Mr. Pocan, let me just say again we had to make some different decisions with this budget,” she said. She admitted that she did not know how many children would be affected while praising the Special Olympics as an “awesome organization” that has ample private support. But the public damage was done as Pocan’s office posted a clip of the exchange on Twitter that garnered more than 1.
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