Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says that Senate Republicans will conduct thorough oversight of President Trump’s use of executive power and predicted there could be additional “explosive” Senate hearings with senior Cabinet officials, similar to the fiery exchanges between senators and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this month.

Thune said Wednesday that Republicans senators “have a responsibility as an independent, coequal branch of the government to make sure that we’re doing appropriate oversight of these decisions.”

He pointed to what he called the “explosive” Senate Finance Committee oversight hearing with Kennedy earlier this month, and predicted that his GOP colleagues wouldn’t shy away from asking senior Trump administration officials

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