The past four weeks have been unprecedented in Washington, D.C.’s history. The nation’s capital is under siege by a president with a taste for authoritarian behavior. After President Donald Trump’s Aug. 11 announcement declaring a state of emergency and effectively militarizing the city, some 2,300 armed National Guard troops are roaming the streets and some Metro stations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, many of them masked, are running traffic checkpoints and bashing in car windows with batons in their search for migrants. Now, if House Republicans get their way, the coming days could prove to be even more monumental.

According to a staff memorandum dated Sept. 5 and obtained by Salon, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will meet on Wednesday — the day Trump’s

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