The top Senate leader is directly rebuking his national ­security policy in Syria and Afghanistan. For an administration that had largely been accommodated by Republican lawmakers during its first two years, President Trump is facing an increasingly adversarial Congress eager to assert itself on matters of foreign policy and oversight. In one example, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) sent a blistering letter this week to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for not appearing before the committee to discuss the administration’s border security policies. One Cabinet official — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross — is scheduled to appear before a House committee on March 14 to testify about the decision to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

Source: Washington Post January 31, 2019 00:52 UTC