Democrats are launching an investigation into Trump's firing of the State Department's inspector general

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• Two top Democrats in Congress have announced they will investigate the president's Friday firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.
• "This firing is the outrageous act of a president trying to protect one of his most loyal supporters, the Secretary of State, from accountability," Rep. Eliot Engel, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement. 
• Linick, who served in his role since he was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2013, was fired after he opened an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Democrats alleged. 
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Two top Democrats in Congress have launched an investigation into the Trump administration's firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman announced in a tweet Saturday.

Rep. Eliot Engel, a Democrat from New York who serves as the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, also a Democrat and the party's ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent an order to the White House on Saturday demanding it maintain all records related to Linick's firing and forward them to Congress by May 22.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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