House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, was met by an angry mob Thursday that demand that he use his power on the committee to start oversight of the Trump administration.
“Do your job!” the crowd chanted. Many later booed Chaffetz as he tried to explain his position.
“Give me a second,” he tried to say as the crowd interrupted, according to WKOW in Utah.
Others chanted, “vote him out.”
Chaffetz is under growing pressure to apply the same level of oversight he applied to the Obama administration to the new Trump administration. And some of that pressure is coming from Trump himself.
After Trump aide Kellyanne Conway promoted Ivanka Trump’s fashion line on TV, questions were raised about whether that was a violation of federal ethics rules.
Chaffetz quickly agreed, and said Conway’s statements were “wrong, wrong, wrong.”
He and the top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., wrote a letter asking that the matter be referred to the Office of Government Ethics.
