Miller, Noem Called High on Subpoena List If Democrats Win House

White House adviser Stephen Miller, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her former associate, Corey Lewandowski, are top of mind for subpoenas if Democrats retake the House in the midterm elections, according to the lawmaker who would be in line to become chair of the House Oversight Committee.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), now ranking member of the investigative panel, said during an exclusive interview Tuesday with Bloomberg Government that his “aggressive agenda” would include continuing probes of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, “Trump family corruption” — including presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner’s investments and government role — and misbehaving corporations.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that Democrats would impeach him for a third time if they retake the House, but Garcia reiterated that he and other Democratic leaders are skeptical of using too much floor time on impeachments next year. “I’m much more interested in stopping and reversing the Trump agenda than immediately launching an impeachment that will not pass in the Senate,” Garcia said.

Democrats are bullish about retaking control of at least the House, if not both chambers of Congress, in November. Buoyed by historic trends of the president’s party underperforming in midterms, the optimism has House ranking members quietly crafting their 2027 agendas to counter Trump and the past two years of the GOP power trifecta.

“House Democrats aren’t offering a governing agenda,” Republican National Committee National Press Secretary Kiersten Pels said in a statement responding to the subpoena plans. “They’re offering a revenge agenda that consists of wasting taxpayer money to launch sham impeachments targeting members of the Trump administration, while ignoring the issues Americans actually care about. That is exactly why they cannot be trusted with power and must be prevented from regaining the majority in Congress.”

Miller, as White House deputy chief of staff, is central to Trump’s immigration enforcement strategy. Garcia has relentlessly hammered him on that in his role as ranking Oversight member, as he has Noem and Lewandowski. Both both left the Department of Homeland Security last month as public criticism of Trump’s immigration agencies reached a fever pitch.

On the Epstein probe, Garcia said “there’s a long list of folks” in Epstein’s orbit that he’d like to talk to, as well as wanting more information from his estate and financial institutions. “So, those are all some of the folks we want to talk to immediately,” he said.

Garcia connected likely investigations of large companies with Democrats’ affordability agenda, which they’ve leaned on heavily since losing both chambers and the White House in 2024.

“If you are a large corporation in this country, and you are getting away with working with this White House to enact an agenda that’s actually harming the American public,” Garcia said, “or if you are a large corporation, and you are causing harm, and ripping off people, stealing their data, manipulating pricing, I think those are things that we’re going to look at.”

Committee action would also include seeking testimony from Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel, whether or not he’s still in that job, and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

“They would all be in front of us pretty consistently,” Garcia said. “Just because you’re no longer in the position doesn’t mean you don’t have critical information.”