House
Democrats on Wednesday proposed a sweeping bill to curb presidential abuses, a pitch to voters weeks ahead of
election Day as they try to defeat President
Donald Trump, capture the
Senate from
Republicans and keep their House majority.
The legislation, a wide-ranging package of new and revised bills, would limit the president’s pardon power, strengthen laws to ban presidents from receiving gifts or payments from foreign governments, better protect independent agency watchdogs and whistleblowers from firing or retribution and require better reporting by campaigns of foreign election interference.
Each of the bill’s provisions is a response to actions by Trump or his administration that Democrats see as abuses of presidential power.