5 Takeaways About The Trump Administration's Response To Far-Right Extremism
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing the federal government to detail its plans to fight white supremacy and other far-right extremism. Details are scarce, but here's what we know so far.
Lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee questioned senior FBI and Homeland Security officials this week about their response to white supremacist violence.
This was the latest in a series of hearings, led by Democrats, to gauge the Trump administration's commitment to fighting a threat that federal agencies deem the most lethal and active form of domestic extremism.
There were no bombshell revelations, but lawmakers did get a few details on some key questions.
Here are five takeaways:
There is no national policy to combat the far-right threat
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Maryland Democrat who led the hearing, started by asking what he called the
