In a letter to congressional leaders, three top national security officials in the Trump administration said the president was urging them to extend a surveillance law.
Representative Jim Himes, who will run the powerful intelligence committee in the new Congress, said he also planned to scrutinize contractor donations to President Trump’s construction projects.
Representative Jim Himes’s agenda underscores how Democrats hope to use their commanding majorities in the House and Senate to act as a check on executive power.