众议员罗伯特·加西亚（民主党-加利福尼亚州）周三警告新任白宫新闻秘书斯蒂芬·米勒，他“应该保存文件”，因为即将出任众议院监督委员会主席的加西亚计划在新一届国会对特朗普政府发起全面调查。
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) on Wednesday warned newly appointed White House press secretary Stephen Miller that he “should be preserving documents,” as the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee aims to launch sweeping probes into the Trump administration in the new Congress.
加西亚此前在民主党于2026年中期选举中取得压倒性胜利后，已警告政府官员“请律师”。当CNN记者凯特兰·柯林斯询问他是否认为能让米勒出席作证时，他作出了上述回应。
Garcia, who already warned administration officials to “lawyer up” after Democrats made sweeping victories in the 2026 midterm elections, responded to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins when she asked if he thinks he can get Miller to testify.
“听着，我们将竭尽全力让他回答问题，”他回答道。“他当然应该保存文件，我认为人们需要认识到，如果有人以为唐纳德·特朗普会以某种方式改变他的姿态——随着斯蒂芬·米勒的任命宣布，这种想法已经破灭。”
“Well, look, we’re going to do everything we can to get him to answer questions,” he replied. “He certainly should be preserving documents, and I think what people need to realize is that if people thought that Donald Trump was somehow going to change his posture –– and that evaporated with the announcement of Stephen Miller.”
这位加州民主党人将特朗普的驱逐议程归因于米勒，并补充说，这位幕僚长“不是应该在白宫领导任何事务的人，当然也是我们有严重问题想要得到解答的人。”
The California Democrat attributed Miller to being behind Trump’s deportation agenda, adding that the chief of staff “is not someone that should be leading anything in the White House, and it’s certainly someone that we have serious questions that we want answered.”
柯林斯询问加西亚关于特朗普、白宫法律顾问威尔·沙夫和司法部长托德·布兰奇对即将出任众议院监督委员会主席的最初警告的回应，以及明年可能的斗争会是什么样子。这位众议院民主党人表示，他认为特朗普“显然”在隐瞒“某些东西”。
Collins asked Garcia about the responses from Trump, White House counsel Will Scharf and Attorney General Todd Blanche to the incoming House Oversight chair’s original warning, and what the likely fight next year will look like. The House Democrat said he thinks Trump is “clearly” hiding “something.”
“这是一位懦弱的总统，不想真正承受压力，”他继续说道。“对于一个散发如此多愤怒、在社交媒体帖子中如此咄咄逼人的人来说，他却经受不住几位国会议员要求问责、要求做出实际回应。”加西亚称，政府近期的行动“懦弱得可笑”。
“It’s a president that is cowardly, that doesn’t want to actually take the heat,” he continued. “For someone that gives so much anger and is so aggressive in his social media posts, he can’t take a few members of Congress demanding accountability and demanding for there to be actual responses.”Garcia called it “comical how cowardly the actions of the administration have been” in recent days.
沙夫周一通过信函告知加西亚，民主党人针对政府发起的任何调查“可能触犯明显的刑事犯罪界限”。他在信中写道，关于“滥发传票……仅旨在滥用职权或向接收者灌输恐惧”的持续言论，声称“非法”传票剥夺“公民的宪法权利”，可能招致针对性调查。
Scharf on Monday told Garcia via a letter that any probes opened by Democrats into the administration “may cross the line into blatant criminality.”He wrote that constant statements about “the indiscriminate issuance of subpoenas … designed merely to abuse or instill fear in the recipient,” claiming that “unlawful” subpoenas to deprive “citizens of their constitutional rights” could be met with their own investigations.
加西亚和其他民主党议员就此警告对沙夫进行了抨击，即将出任众议院监督委员会主席的加西亚周三对记者表示，这不会“阻止重要工作的开展”。
Garcia and other Democratic lawmakers took Scharf to task about the warning, with the incoming House Oversight chair telling reporters on Wednesday that it won’t “stop the important work.”
众议院监督委员会民主党籍议员斯蒂芬·林奇（马萨诸塞州）告诉政府官员“来啊，别怂”。
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), another Oversight Democrat, told administration officials to “come at me, bro.”
“因此，我们认为我们有权利，且宪法明确赋予我们权力，确保总统遵守法律，”林奇对CNN记者帕梅拉·布朗说。“这相当基础，这就是核心职能……在这方面我代表主席发言，我相信。”
“So, we believe we have the right and we have been empowered expressly in the Constitution to make sure the president obeys the law,” Lynch told CNN’s Pamela Brown. “This is pretty basic, and so that’s the core function … and I speak on behalf of the chairman in this respect, I’m sure.”