The chair of the House Natural Resources Committee issued a subpoena Friday, seeking to force the Biden administration to turn over documents related to its lengthy investigation of a temporary migrant camp at a national park site in New York City.
Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) said he decided to issue the subpoena to the Department of Homeland Security after officials ignored the committee’s request for information on the encampment at Floyd Bennett Field, a site operated by the National Park Service.
“This committee has conducted months of oversight on the shady backroom deals that resulted in a ramshackle, crime-ridden encampment built in a national park,” he said in a statement, adding that “Democrat bureaucrats have repeatedly blocked congressional inquiries.”
“At best, they sent heavily redacted documents that provided no useful information,” Westerman said. “At worst, they failed to even acknowledge congressional requests. I refuse to play their games. Today, I’m using the committee’s full authority to get to the bottom of this disastrous decision and hold the Biden-Harris administration accountable for desecrating America’s most treasured public landscapes.”
