Meadows, Chaffetz want clarification on Trump gag orders

"The House Subcommittee on Government Operations’ Feb. 1 hearing was scheduled to focus on the fifth anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. 

But as with everything in Washington these days, the focal point soon shifted to the Trump administration.  Democrats — itching for a fight in the wake of reports that White House officials had ordered federal agencies not to communicate with Congress — came out of the gate blasting the Trump administration for what it characterized as illegal gag orders.  Ranking subcommittee member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who had previously sent a letter to the White House last week calling for it to rescind the gag orders — which he said violated 'a host of federal laws'— blasted the administration again in the hearing."