House Democrats on Tuesday took aim at their Republican colleagues for convening a hearing on regulatory reform amid the Trump administration’s campaign to eviscerate the federal government.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York said the decision by a House Judiciary subcommittee to hold a discussion this week about reining in the “administrative state” — which describes the network of largely career officials at executive agencies like EPA — is akin to “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.”
“As we speak, Elon Musk and his band of near-teenaged accomplices are systematically working their way through the executive branch, knocking down agency after agency, while undermining the rule of law and shredding the Constitution along the way,” said Nadler, a member of the full committee.
Throughout the hearing by the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform and Antitrust, Democratic lawmakers urged their Republican counterparts to focus on overreach by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk into the powers of Congress and the judiciary.
