Trump Taps White House Lawyer for Virus Inspector General, Pelosi Opposes Nomination

Then-President Donald Trump speaks before he signs the coronavirus stimulus relief package in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on March 27, 2020. Listening are from left, Larry Kudlow, White House chief economic adviser, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarty (R-Calif.). Evan Vucci/AP Photo

President Donald Trump named a White House lawyer as inspector general for hundreds of billions of dollars approved by Congress for CCP virus relief, a selection opposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

One of three oversight mechanisms established in the $2.2 trillion bill Trump signed last week after it passed Congress was a special inspector general to oversee $500 billion in funds that will be doled out by the Treasury Department to small businesses and corporations.