即将出任众议院监督委员会主席的加州民主党籍众议员罗伯特·加西亚表示，在白宫首席律师发信威胁对政府的调查“可能已触及公然犯罪的界限”后，他不会向特朗普总统“屈膝投降”。周一，白宫法律顾问威尔·沙夫致函这位加州民主党人，指责他及其同僚释放信号，计划利用新获得的多数席位骚扰特朗普政府官员，而非“推进合法的立法任务”。信中称，政府将对其认定为非法的监督行动采取行动。
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., who is poised to become head of the powerful House Oversight Committee, said he would not “bend the knee” to President Donald Trump after the White House’s top lawyer sent him a letter threatening that investigations into the administration “may cross the line into blatant criminality.”On Monday, White House Counsel Will Scharf sent a three-page letter to the California Democrat, accusing him and his colleagues of signaling plans to use their new majority to harass Trump administration officials rather than to “further a legitimate legislative task.”He said the administration would take action against oversight it considers unlawful.
加西亚周三在接受 MS NOW 的阿利西亚·梅嫩德斯采访时表示，白宫试图阻止“任何形式的监督”实属“离谱”。他说，总统正试图“阻止我们这些国会议员履行宪法赋予的职责”。
Garcia told MS NOW’s Alicia Menendez on Wednesday that it was “outrageous” for the White House to try to prevent “any sort of oversight.”He said the president was trying to “stop us members of Congress from doing our job that is in the Constitution.”
加西亚补充道：“白宫发出一封信，这封信显然是对国会的威胁、对我个人的威胁，这令人震惊，而我们所有的关注点仅在于调查和铲除腐败。”他说，他们的工作是“直面政府腐败，通过真正追究那些造成危害的骗子和罪犯的责任来降低成本，让生活更负担得起。”
“It’s shocking that the White House would send a letter that is clearly a threat to the Congress, a threat to me, when all we’re focused on is investigation and rooting out corruption,” Garcia added. Their work, he said, was about “taking on government corruption, making life more affordable through bringing down costs by actually going after the crooks and the criminals that are causing harm.”
加西亚表示，委员会的调查具有合法的立法目的，并有助于防止未来政府实施腐败。他说：“我们调查是为了能够真正制定良法以遏制腐败。我们要确保制定新法律，使总统的家人将来不会以某种方式利用体制、从总统职位上获利。”
Garcia said the committee’s investigations would have a legitimate legislative purpose and help prevent corruption carried out by future administrations. “We investigate so that we can actually write good laws to stop corruption,” he said. “We want to ensure that we are writing new laws so that the president’s family in the future does not somehow take advantage of the system, isn’t profiting off the presidency.”
他继续说道：“也许唐纳德·特朗普或他的律师不理解这一点，但这就是我们每天从事的工作。总统的任何信函或威胁都无法阻止这项工作。”
“Maybe Donald Trump or his lawyers don’t understand that, but that’s the work that we’re engaged in every single day,” he continued. “And no letter or threat from the president is going to stop that work.”
这位众议员表示，他和民主党同僚不会被总统“恐吓”，而政府似乎相信“一种威权国家”，在那里“我们都应该向唐纳德·特朗普跪拜”。
The congress member said he and his fellow Democrats would not be “intimidated by the president,” and that the administration appeared to believe “in an authoritarian state” where “we all should bend the knee to Donald Trump.”
加西亚指出民主党在中期选举中的全面胜利，作为选民希望该党对抗政府的证据。他说，选举结果应给民主党“勇气去迎接这些重大斗争”。
Garcia pointed to Democrats’ sweeping midterm victories as evidence that voters want the party to take on the administration. He said the results should give Democrats the “courage to take on these big fights.”
他说：“当一个家庭从总统职位上获利、财富增加数十亿美元，而美国民众却在挣扎求生时，这是一个民众真正关心的问题，他们希望我们去解决。”
“When you have a family that is profiting off the presidency, that are billions of dollars richer, while the American public is struggling, that is a real issue that people care about,” he said, “and they want us to take on.”