A pair of House Democratic committee leaders are launching an investigation into President Trump's demand that the Justice Department pay him $230 million in damages for its past probes into him.

Why it matters: Democrats lack the subpoena power to force Trump to answer their questions, but it signals a new area of inquiry their investigators will likely pursue if they take back the House in 2026. • House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Oversight Committee ranking member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) are leading the probe. • "Your plan to have your obedient underlings at the Department of Justice (DOJ) instruct the U.S. Treasury to pay you, personally, hundreds of millions of dollars ... is an outrageous and shocking attempt to shake down the American people," t

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