🚨🚨🚨 Late breaking Friday news: Trump taps White House attorney to be inspector general over $2T coronavirus package

Barney Frank: "[A] blatant conflict of interest... The job of White House counsel is to represent the president. It's contemptuous." https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/03/trump-coronavirus-inspector-general-brian-miller/
So far we've seen:

-- WH say they will not abide mandate that IG can blow whistle to Congress on withheld information

-- Trump say, "I'll be the oversight"

-- Nomination of WH attorney to key IG post

Dems insist oversight will be there
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