NEW ADMINISTRATION, SAME RED TAPE: “For Trump’s entire presidency, top congressional Democrats used every tool at their disposal to investigate the Washington hotel he leased from the federal government, issuing subpoenas, holding hearings and filing a lawsuit to try to bring the inner workings of Trump’s luxury property to light,” our colleagues Jonathan O’Connell and David A. Fahrenthold report. “The efforts were framed as a defense of democracy itself.”