House panels considering whether to impeach President Donald Trump issued subpoenas on Monday to the Defense Department and Office of Management and Budget, the latest move in a wide-ranging investigation into how the President wielded U.S. foreign policy as a blunt instrument to pressure Ukraine into manufacturing political dirt.
Also, the Pentagon will be reluctant to piss off the very people who decide what their budget is every year.
OMB on the other hand is another part of the Trump cabal and will only do as Hair Furor demands.
Congress should keep forcing the Pentagon to weigh in on as many issues as they can. If it becomes obvious that the Pentagon is not behind him the flag waving base might even see the disconnect.
The Trump administration released the Ukraine aid on Sept. 11, after it had been frozen for months in which it was frozen. Two days before — on Sept. 9 — the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight Committees had launched an investigation into the pressure campaign on Ukraine.