House Democrats have launched a series of investigations into Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, amid allegations that he accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents as part of an influence-peddling probe.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Justice Department to turn over a reported tape showing Homan accepting the money last year as part of an FBI sting. Meanwhile, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, wants the panel’s Republicans to demand Homan’s testimony — by subpoena if necessary.

Republicans have shown little appetite for scrutinizing Trump, however, and Democrats aren’t holding their breath for Trump’s allies to help with any formal probe into the allegations against Homan. Instead, they’re initiating their own investigations into reports that Trump’s border czar accepted a bag of cash from federal agents probing pay-to-play schemes for government contracts.

“Republicans haven't been functioning as a separate and co-equal branch of government,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said this week in announcing the Democrats’ investigations. “They are simply a reckless and extreme rubber stamp for Donald Trump's out of control agenda, and we are not going to wait until we........

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