The US Home Oversight Committee has accused the 2 Democrats of “falsely” claiming they’d the scenario beneath management
The US Home Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform has begun an investigation into riots in California which have adopted a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on unlawful migrants. Committee members are accusing Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass of inaction and obstructing federal makes an attempt to handle the unrest.
The protests that erupted final week shortly devolved into riots, with members torching police vehicles and US flags, blocking highways, and clashing with regulation enforcement officers. The latter have responded with tear gasoline and rubber bullets, with a whole lot of arrests, in addition to a number of accidents on each side reported.
The beginning of the probe was introduced in a press launch by the US Home Oversight Committee on Friday.
Chairman James Comer and Clay Higgins, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Federal Legislation Enforcement, each Republicans, despatched letters to Newsom and Bass, requesting that they hand over “paperwork and communications” dated June 1, 2025 and later, related to the continuing riots and the state authorities’ response to them.
The letters additionally accused the 2 Democrats of falsely claiming that “state and native regulation enforcement had protests beneath management” and of “falsely blaming” President Donald Trump “for the actions of violent rioters.”
Newsom beforehand sued the Trump administration over its choice to deploy the Nationwide Guard to California. On Thursday, a US district choose dominated the transfer unlawful, just for a Courtroom of Appeals to situation a short lived injunction in opposition to that ruling hours later. For now, the Nationwide Guard stays beneath Trump’s management, and never that of the state authorities, till a listening to on Tuesday.
Responding to the committee’s request, Governor Newsom’s press workplace stated in a submit on X on Saturday that the information requested “will embrace some extremely uncommon communications from the White Home.”
“We’re good with transparency. Will the White Home say the identical?” the message added.
In an acrimonious alternate all through the week, Newsom described Trump’s choice to deploy the Nationwide Guard as a “step towards authoritarianism” and a “severe breach of state sovereignty.”
Trump, in flip, urged the “grossly incompetent” California governor to “get his act collectively” and to “apologize… for the completely horrible job” he has allegedly completed.
The US president additionally recommended he would again a proposal by White Home border czar Tom Homan to have Newsom arrested for allegedly obstructing federal immigration enforcement efforts.
