The midterms aren’t the only election Democrats are reportedly looking beyond as lawmakers addressed their intent to weaponize the government against Trump officials.
“… we’re going to be very busy.”
Despite infrequent, half-hearted shows of tempering rhetoric, leftists have remained consistent in pursuing their agenda of opposition to President Donald Trump. Now, having gone after him relentlessly, including after his first administration, Democrats appear poised to campaign on similarly targeting officials from the second administration, even after the next presidential election.
“This is stiff competition to see who is the leading crook,” California Rep. Juan Vargas (D) contended to The Hill as senior staff writer Mike Lillis presented, “House Democrats want 2029 to be the year of reckoning for Trump administration officials.”
Just as they have used the courts to impede efforts at restoring national sovereignty and reducing waste, fraud, and abuse via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), lawmakers expressed their intent to get the ball rolling after the midterms, should control of the House shift from Republicans to Democrats.
“Before we start calling something a crime or making use of these legal terms that actually have very important meanings, we need to investigate,” said California Rep. Jared Huffman (D). “We need to do what Congress has declined to do for the last 16 months.”
“We’re not going to wait for a new administration. We’re going to kick right into oversight and investigation mode. It’s urgent. But it’s a long list; we’re going to be very busy,” he added.
While the gavel-seeking House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said in the wake of the April 25 attempt on the president’s life that the impeachment of Trump wouldn’t be the top priority with a flip of the House, he had no qualms with threatening the use of lawfare into the end of the decade late last year.
“The one thing that should be clear to all these Republican extremists, and sycophants, and the people who are either actively involved in corruption, violating the law, engaged in extrajudicial activity, is that the statute of limitations for any crimes being committed now: five years,” he said. “It will extend well beyond the end of the Trump administration.”
Jeffries: One thing that should be clear to all these Republican sycophants and the people who are actively involved in corruption, violating the law, engaging in extrajudicial activity—the statute of limitations is five years. pic.twitter.com/GMhxO7CXpu
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 1, 2025
California Rep. Ted Lieu (D) previously said of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth with regard to strikes against alleged drug boats, “If the Trump administration does not hold the people accountable, I guarantee you a future administration will do so. Because there is no statute of limitations for war crimes.”
Where it concerned Trump’s nominee for attorney general, acting AG Todd Blanche, and the demonized anti-weaponization fund, the chair of the House Democratic Caucus told The Hill, “He’s the architect of a fake settlement between the IRS and the Department of Justice, which are really the same entity because everyone reports to Trump. And then he was the architect of this $1.8 billion slush fund, and it took public pressure to get Blanche to back off.”
“Now was that illegal? I don’t know. Maybe,” the congressman hedged. “Someone should look into it, because he was clearly trying to get money that he wasn’t authorized to get, and Congress never approved, using a fake settlement.”
Similarly, Virginia Rep. James Walkinshaw (D) expressed a desire to investigate DOGE employees accused of privacy breaches at various agencies, along with the alleged conduct of Corey Lewandowski, who served as a senior adviser under now-former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“It’s a shocking thing for contractors to have come forward and said he was shaking them down,” said Walkinshaw. “So that’s going to need a full investigation. There is an [inspector general] investigation right now, but I think that’s definitely a starting point.”
Meanwhile, after going along with President Joe Biden’s preemptive and blanket pardons on his way out of office, the reported suggestion that Trump may take similar measures to protect his administration officials found Lieu willing to “test to see if pre-emptive pardons are actually constitutional.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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