Priorities.
Via Mediaiate:
As the new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) told The New Yorker he is getting rid of the Subcommittee on Terrorism in order to replace it with a subcommittee to investigate President Donald Trump and how his personal finances have influenced his foreign policy.
The Subcommittee on Terrorism was established after the terrorist attacks on September 11, but according to Engel there was not much interest in keeping it.
“We just thought, if we’re going to do something relevant in this era where Congress is going to reassert itself, where there are so many questionable activities of this Administration vis-à-vis foreign policy, that it made sense to have this,” he said.
One of the things the subcommittee is planning on looking at Trump’s private meeting he had with Russian President Vladmir Putin.
“It’s been many months since Helsinki, and we still don’t know what Putin and Trump talked about,” Engel continued.