Hoyer Pans Republican Efforts to Have Whistleblower Testify in Impeachment Inquiry

House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) during a press conference in a file photograph. Win McNamee/Getty Images

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) called Republican efforts to have the whistleblower testify in the impeachment inquiry “despicable.”

Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, and other Democrats are united around keeping the whistleblower’s identity shielded, an idea some Republicans have supported as well.