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EPA administrator: Lee Zeldin}:

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., is seen at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 16, 2024.

Trump announced that he will nominate former New York Republican congressman Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

"Lee, with a very strong legal background, has been a true fighter for America First policies. He will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards," Trump said in a statement.

Zeldin wrote, "It is an honor to join President Trump's Cabinet as EPA Administrator."

Zeldin represented New York's 1st Congressional District, on Long Island, from 2015 to 2023, and he ran for governor in 2022 but was defeated by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

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Reset or Purge? Trump EPA Dismisses Agency Science Advisers - Inside Climate News

Reset or Purge? Trump EPA Dismisses Agency Science Advisers

BY MARIANNE LAVELLE

Critics fear the unusual clean sweep of panels is meant to ease the planned rollback of climate and environmental policy.

All members of the Environmental Protection Agency’s boards of outside advisers on science and clean air were dismissed in a letter emailed late Tuesday, an unusual step the Trump administration said was aimed at depoliticizing the panels.

Panel members expressed disappointment and confusion at the assertion in the letter signed by James Payne, a career EPA attorney Trump installed as acting administrator. Critics charged the Trump administration with politicizing the process by eliminating the current independent advisers and clearing the way for them to be replaced with hand-picked appointees.

“This is not about good governance, this is about rigging the system for polluters; corruption at the expense of the American people,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the ranking Democrat on the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Similar efforts to remake science advisory panels came during the first Trump administration, with EPA leaders changing the eligibility rules for serving on boards. The result was fewer university researchers on the panels and more industry consultants and scientists who were supportive of Trump’s deregulatory efforts, like University of Alabama in Huntsville atmospheric scientist John Christy, taking seats.

A number of the now-dismissed panel members had two to three years remaining in their terms. It was not immediately clear who would be appointed as replacements on the advisory panels, both of which are required under federal law. Trump’s choice to head up the Environmental Protection Agency, former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin, won Senate confirmation on Wednesday, the day after the dismissals.

An EPA spokesperson said the move was in line with the agency’s purpose.

“EPA is working to update the Science Advisory Board (SAB) and Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) to ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission,” the spokesperson said in an email. “The decision to reset these federal advisory committees emphasizes the importance of SAB and CASAC to EPA’s mission of protecting human health and the environment and seeks to reverse the politicization of SAB and CASAC made by the previous Administration.”

The dismissed chairs of both of the boards disputed that characterization.

“I was not appointed as a political appointee, but as a scientist that studies air pollution and health,” said Jeremy Sarnat, a professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health who had only begun serving as chair of the CASAC in October. He said the Clean Air Act, passed on a bipartisan basis more than 50 years ago and implemented under administrations of both parties, had been “one of the most successful public policies that has ever been enacted globally,” in part because of procedures that require the agency to rely on the best science.

“I know that so many other facets of American life and society have been politicized, and I hope that the CASAC and the advisory boards can remain above that and that the new administrator will adhere to the principles and practices, which have really worked so well for decades,” Sarnat said.

Kimberly Jones, an engineering professor and associate provost at Howard University, who has served as chair of the Science Advisory Board since 2023, said she was disappointed in the administration’s decision.

“It does seem to signal a shift in the decades-old accepted facts about how science should occur,” Jones said. “We should not be writing or interpreting science to meet anybody’s objectives. We should be independent, doing our best job to evaluate the science as scientists. This seems to go counter to that understanding.”

Although EPA’s science advisers are not decision-makers, their advice becomes important when the agency’s policy decisions face legal challenges. EPA’s 2024 decision to strengthen the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for fine particulate matter, for example, was bolstered because it was in line with the advice the agency received from the CASAC. Conversely, weak ozone standards passed during the first Trump administration were successfully challenged in court in 2021, in part because the EPA had received contrary recommendations from outside advisers.

It is not the first time there has been a clean sweep of scientific advisers. Biden’s EPA chief, Michael Regan, installed a new slate at CASAC when he took office in 2021 based on the findings by the GAO and others that the selection process had become compromised.

H. Christopher Frey, an associate dean at North Carolina State University who served as head of EPA’s Office of Research and Development during the Biden administration, said the circumstances are entirely different now. “This is really just a flat-out purge of the current membership,” he said.

Frey said the Trump administration seemed to be following the conservative policy platform Project 2025, which called for “resetting science advisory boards” at EPA.

“The administration seems to be wanting to promote loyalty and compliance with its policy agenda, but that’s not the mission of a science advisory board,” Frey said. “So if that’s the goal, it’s an inappropriate interference in an external, independent expert advisory board, and it’s also just setting more precedent for this to happen every time.”

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On November 11, President-elect Donald Trump announced former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin as his pick for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Zeldin, who has previously voiced doubts about the climate crisis, is a Trump loyalist who voted to overturn the 2020 election. According to CNN, he “most recently chaired the China policy initiative at the America First Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank founded to promote Trump’s agenda.”

On the November 14 edition of CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, the network’s chief climate correspondent Bill Weir discussed Zeldin’s environmental record and what his selection could mean for environmental protections and climate action under a second Trump administration.

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:{BILL WEIR (CORRESPONDENT): But Lee Zeldin, like all of these picks, a true loyalist. Of course, voted against the 2020 election certification. Sat with the Trumps in the box many times. Former New York from Long Island, put himself, actually, on climate solutions caucuses and estuary committees because the environment matters very much to folks on Long Island there. :{But if you look at his voting record, 50 times he voted against climate change legislation; against clean water legislation, 11 times; clean air, eight times. The League of Conservation Voters tracks the voting records of every member of Congress, and on a scale of 100, he gets a 14, which is actually better than most Republicans, who are in the single digits. }:

> He did vote for regulating PFAS forever- chemicals at one point and to give Native American tribes some money to actually release wild buffalo. So that boosted his League of Conservation score a little bit. But it just seems like if these other picks, Jim, that you're talking about, are any indication, these are pressure tests, you know, for the American and for the Senate. And when it comes to environmental rollbacks and what, you know, what he would hope to do and gut from day one on, you've got to imagine the sky is the limit for Lee Zeldin and that agency. And there's a lot of folks who were there who survived the first term who are terrified today, Jim.}:

JIM ACOSTA (HOST): And Bill, this is happening as we're still getting new indicators, warning lights, about our climate.

WEIR: Exactly. Yeah I mean, the temperatures are off the charts, the ocean temperatures, we're at the verge of these tipping points that once we go past them when it comes to ocean currents or, you know, permafrost melting, we can't get back, right? So these are such vital years right now that we're dealing with. And then this new administration, not only ambivalent about science, but almost antagonistic. So, we'll see. We'll see who is able to hold the line.

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Progressive advocates voiced alarm Monday over U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's initial leadership picks—including a border czar who oversaw the separation of migrant families during the Republican's first term—amid fresh allegations that the 2024 victor's transition team is breaking the law by failing to sign a required ethics agreement.

As of Monday, Trump has tapped—or in one case, is expected to imminently name—the following senior administration officials:

Elise Stefanik for United Nations ambassador

On Monday, Trump said he is nominating Stefanik, a Republican congresswoman from New York and longtime ally, to represent the United States at the world body. Stefanik is a dogged defender of Israel, even as the country is on trial for alleged genocide at the International Court of Justice for its ongoing obliteration of Gaza.

Stefanik also supports defunding the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which provides lifesaving aid to Palestinians, over dubious Israeli allegations that its members are members of Hamas and took part in the October 7 attack.

According to AIPAC Tracker, Stefanik has taken more than $900,000 in campaign contributions from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and aligns with the lobby group's advocacy for unconditional U.S. military aid to Israel.

"Other countries send diplomats to serve as U.N. ambassadors. The U.S. always sends AIPAC-approved Israel shills. And, this time, one who is also an abrasive, bigoted, far-right clown," said Craig Mokhiber, a former U.N. human rights attorney who resigned last year over what he saw as the world body "failing" to respond to a "textbook case of genocide" in Gaza.

Mokhiber added that Stefanik is "a fitting pick to represent the rapid decline of the U.S. on the world stage."

Lebanese American University professor Jad Melki said sardonically of Stefanik's selection, "Thank you Trump for removing any illusions about your administration's supportive policy towards the Israeli genocide in Palestine and Lebanon."

While not a Cabinet-level pick, Trump is expected to appoint Brian Hook—described by Drop Site News' Murtaza Hussain as "a major Iran hawk who helped lead the 'maximum pressure' campaign of sanctions, sabotage, and assassinations that characterized Trump's approach to Tehran"—to lead his State Department transition team.

Lee Zeldin for Environmental Protection Agency administrator

Described by one Trump critic as a "fantastic pick to destroy" the EPA, Zeldin, a former Republican congressman from New York, has an abysmal 14% lifetime rating from the League of Conservation Voters and is expected to oversee the dismantling of Biden administration climate policies. He is an avid booster of the fossil fuel industry, which has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign coffers, and supports expanding fracking and offshore oil drilling.

"At the EPA, Zeldin could undermine any progress made on protecting our environment and slowing climate change, doing more harm than any administrator before him," warned David Arkush, who directs the climate program at the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

"His record is clear: During his time in Congress, Zeldin cast vote after vote against measures that protect our environment and would slow the climate crisis," Arkush added.

Previewing their plans, Trump said in a statement that Zeldin "will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions," and the ex-congressman declared that "we will restore U.S. energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry to bring back American jobs, and make the U.S. the global leader of AI." Both claimed they would do that while also protecting air and water, which critics contested.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) asserted that Zeldin's "only job will be to reward corporate polluters by gutting the EPA and making our air and water dirtier. In Congress and the courts, we've got a fight ahead."

Tom Homan for "border czar"

Late Sunday, Trump announced that Homan, who served as the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during his first term, will be his point person on border policy, a position that will not require confirmation by what will soon be a Republican-controlled Senate.

Homan—who previously enforced Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy that included the separation of thousands of children from their parents and other relatives—will oversee what the president-elect has promised to be the most sweeping mass deportation operation in U.S. history.

During a Monday interview onFox News, Homan issued a warning to Democratic governors and sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with the future administration's mass deportation program.

"If you're not going to help us, get the hell out of the way," he said. "If we can't get assistance from New York City, we may have to double the number of agents we send to New York City, because we're going to do the job."

Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security said that around 1,400 migrant children still have not been reunited with their families. This, after Homan told the Conservative Political Action Conference in October 2023 that family separation "worked."

"I'm sick and tired hearing about the family separation," he said. "Bottom line is, we enforced the law."

Trump has not ruled out a return to the highly controversial policy in his second term.

Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) said Homan's appointment "should make it clear to everyone that the Trump administration will make good on their promises of mass deportation."

"We know *exactly* who Tom Homan is. He is the architect of the 'zero-tolerance' policy that separated thousands of migrant children from their parents with no plan for reunification," Ramirez continued. "He demonstrates cold disregard for the U.S. citizenship of the at least 4 million children with an undocumented parent, suggesting to keep families together, they should be deported together."

"The Trump administration's goal is to inflict maximum damage on diverse American families, our children, and our communities," the congresswoman added. "But let it be known, I will fight like hell to keep our families together, and our communities are ready to be an obstacle at every turn as he tries to implement his cruel, vile, gruesome plan."

Susie Wiles for White House chief of staff

Wiles is a longtime GOP strategist who has managed Trump's campaign operations since 2021, even as she worked for the tobacco company Swisher International lobbying to influence Congress on Food and Drug Administration regulations. She is also co-chair of the lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs, which represents Big Pharma and junk food companies in apparent conflict with Trump's stated goal to "make America healthy again."

Stephen Miller for deputy chief of staff for policy

Numerous U.S. media outlets reported Monday that Trump is expected to tap Miller, a first-term senior adviser and speechwriter, as his deputy chief of staff for policy. Miller—an architect of Trump's family separation policy who advocates racist and xenophobic immigration policies—was described in 2019 by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) as a "verified white supremacist."

Although Miller's appointment was not yet official, Vice President-elect JD Vance on Monday congratulated what he called Trump's "fantastic pick."

Miller notoriously authored much of Trump's January 6, 2001 speech that is widely blamed for inciting that day's Capitol insurrection.

Last year, Miller vowed that Trump's first-term program to strip some naturalized Americans of their U.S. citizenship would be "turbocharged" should he win reelection.

Responding to reports of Miller's White House return, Jesse Mermell, the president and founder of the progressive deWit Impact Group, wrote on social media that "nothing about this is a surprise, but seeing it in print is still nightmare fuel."

Both Homan and Miller are among the at least 140 officials from Trump's first administration involved in Project 2025, a blueprint for a far-right overhaul of the federal government that includes terminating the legal status of around 500,000 immigrants currently protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, people commonly called "Dreamers."

CNN reported Monday that billionaire backer Elon Musk has been seen visiting Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida "nearly every single day" since Election Day and is "weighing in on staffing decisions, making clear his preference for certain roles."

Trump said during his campaign that he would place Musk in charge of government efficiency, raising progressive fears of aggressive cuts to crucial social programs and regulators.

As Trump fills out his Cabinet, critics noted in recent days that his transition team still hasn't signed legally required ethics agreements with the Biden administration, possibly over a mandatory pledge to avoid the conflicts of interest that plagued his first term.

"Donald Trump and his transition team are already breaking the law. I would know because I wrote the law," U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Monday on social media. "Incoming presidents are required to prevent conflicts of interest and sign an ethics agreement. This is what illegal corruption looks like."

Responding to the prospect of a return to the "countless abuses of power" in Trump's first administration, Lisa Gilbert, the executive vice president of Public Citizen, said Monday that "we need to prepare to push back."

"The good news is, we can win these types of fights," Gilbert added. "We helped drive out three Cabinet secretaries from office last time, and we can do that kind of thing again."

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Democrats in New York State are demanding a criminal investigation into United States Congressman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin's campaign for allegedly leading a "dubious petitioning effort" to add third parties to the August 23rd primary ballot in order to siphon votes away from Democratic incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul.

"The petitioning centered on statewide Republican candidates seeking to run on an additional, key ballot line in the November election by reviving the moribund state Independence Party," The Times Union reported on Monday. "A spokeswoman for the state Republican Party, Jessica Proud, confirmed to the Times Union that signed Independence Party petitions were later dropped at their party headquarters on State Street in Albany — and bound in volumes at the party office — before submission to the state Board of Elections on the May 31 deadline."

Nearly twenty percent of the 52,000 signatures needed to put "upstart third parties" on the ballot were "xeroxed copies of other, original signatures within those same records,"the Times Union explained. "The copied pages were interspersed in a manner leading some election experts to conclude their inclusion may have been intentional, possibly to inflate the number of signatures to surpass the daunting new threshold of 45,000 valid signatures for upstart state parties to gain ballot access."

The issue first came to light in June when the Libertarian Party "flagged the problematic Independence Party petition signatures," the Times Unionnoted.

In July, the paper continued, "the state Board of Elections found that more than 12,800 signatures submitted were invalid, including more than 11,000 that had been photocopied. With about 39,000 remaining, Zeldin and other statewide Republicans fell roughly 6,000 short of gaining an Independence Party ballot line, which in the past has helped sway certain close elections for GOP candidates."

Libertarian Party Secretary Andrew Kolstee said in a statement toThe Hillat the time that “Republicans talk a lot about election integrity, but the Zeldin campaign attempted to fly under the radar and submit over 11,000 fraudulent signatures in an attempt to get a third line on the ballot, while New York’s oppressive ballot access laws, which were changed in 2020 to prevent third parties from getting on the ballot, prevent voter choice.”

State Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs also told the paper that "Lee Zeldin was one of the many far-right Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election under the guise of election fraud — a dangerous conspiracy theory peddled by Donald Trump and his pawns in Congress,” adding that "Zeldin submitting 11,000 fake signatures just emphasizes his hypocrisy and proves he is willing to sell New Yorkers another ‘Big Lie’ to benefit his failing campaign."

Proud, however, maintained in her interview that the inclusion of copied signatures was "inadvertent" and was merely an unfortunate consequence of last-minute scrambling by staffers.

"Whether for record-keeping or data entry purposes, it is a very common procedure for copies to be made of petitions by campaigns and even individuals who gather signatures," she told the Times Union."The process was chaotic and as a result, copies of the valid signatures were inadvertently included in the filing. The mistake was acknowledged and the [Board of Elections] decision to rule the petitions invalid was accepted with no further action taken."

Proud further insisted that "the GOP could not say for certain whether the volumes containing copies were assembled at GOP headquarters. She did not know where else volumes might have been bound besides that office, however, and confirmed that petition volumes are typically bound in a single location."

Zeldin's campaign offered a nearly identical defense and has accused Hochul of employing "people who hate the Republican Party" who "are working overtime trying to spin this into something it's not to distract from the very real corruption of the pay-to-play scandals that are going on inside her office."

Demands for a criminal probe have since emerged from Democratic lawmakers like State Senator Zellnor Myrie, who represents Brooklyn and chairs the State Senate Elections Committee.

"It is clear the Zeldin campaign perpetrated a fraud. Pages of valid signatures were photocopied. Thereafter, the original sheets were paginated, as were the photocopied pages. These sheets were assigned different page numbers in order to create the appearance that the pages contained separate, valid signatures. All of this was in an attempt to create the appearance that the Petition contained at least the minimum of 45,000 valid signatures. These actions are clear and convincing," Myrie wrote in a nine-count criminal complaint filing to Albany County District Attorney David Soares that was shared exclusively with City & State on August 4th.

"New Yorkers must have confidence that our elections are fair, honest and transparent. In my role as Chair of the Senate Elections Committee, I have not hesitated to defend our system of elections from spurious allegations of fraud. However, when actualelection fraud appears to have occurred, as it does in this case, it is essential for the public trust that potential violations are investigated fully and swiftly," said Myrie. "For that reason, I urge you to use your powers to investigate these apparent violations of public integrity."

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Republicans began publicly questioning where Vindman’s loyalties lie.

"It seems very clear that he is incredibly concerned about Ukrainian defense,” former GOP congressman Sean Duffy said on CNN on Tuesday morning. “I don't know that he's concerned about American policy.” Fox News host Laura Ingraham posited that Vindman was “advising Ukraine while working inside the White House apparently against the president’s interest,” leading former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo to respond, “some people might call that espionage.”

Story Continued BelowThe talking point has been condemned by members of both parties as a smear of a decorated war hero. House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney of Wyoming called it “shameful” on Tuesday. Vindman’s wife called her later that day to express her appreciation, and Cheney again denounced the smear, according to two people with knowledge of the call.Despite the bipartisan outcry, the insinuation made its way to the deposition room. At one point, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) began asking questions implying that Vindman had been working both sides, expressing alarm that Vindman “gave the Ukrainians guidance” and asking how many times he spoke with Ukrainian officials, one of the people in the room at the time said.“That’s literally part of Vindman’s job as the NSC’s Ukraine director,” this person said. “Zeldin was pretty quickly rebuked over that line of questioning by the Democrats.”

A spokesperson for Zeldin’s office denied that he had implied Vindman had dual loyalties. "This is just another reason why these transcripts should be immediately released," the spokesperson said. "You’d see just how badly your sources are misleading you about what’s actually happening behind closed doors."

Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe also challenged Vindman— who wrote in his opening statement that he was concerned by Trump’s July 25 call because he “did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen” — to show the investigators where the word “demand” appeared in the call record.

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As Congress readies for the first round of public impeachment hearings starting Wednesday, two of the most powerful lawmakers piloting the inquiry are racking up campaign cash.

The pair of California lawmakers sitting on the House Intelligence Committee — Ranking minority member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) — respectively rank first and second for House lawmakers with the most cash on hand.

Nunes, a vocal defender of President Donald Trump, has just shy of $7 million in bank — the most among his House colleagues. He received more money from Republican or conservative groups than any other House member, raising $224,279 so far. The former dairy farmer is also among the top recipients of cash from retirees and agricultural businesses.

The California Republican enjoys a strong small-dollar donor base, ranking fourth among all current GOP House members in the percentage of small-dollar contributions his campaign received. Roughly $3.1 million — or almost 55 percent of his campaign cash during the 2020 election cycle — came from those who each gave $200 or below.

Nunes’ cash-rich campaign benefited from his top position on the committee. During the 2018 cycle, then-chairman Nunes vigorously defended Trump during probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He raised $13.3 million during the 2018 cycle — a personal fundraising record — for his campaign and leadership PAC, New PAC.

This year, since the beginning of the impeachment inquiry, which was largely prompted by the infamous July 25 phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Nunes has repeatedly tried to and called the investigation a “hoax.” He labeled the ongoing process an “orchestrated farce” on Twitter and attacked Schiff for being in touch with the whistleblower before the complaint was filed.

While questioning European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland, a major Trump donor tangled up in the Ukraine controversy, Nunes centered his talking points around the unrelated Steele Dossier. In other hearings, Nunes reportedly remained largely quiet, sometimes even absent.

As Nunes takes a backseat, House Republicans announced last week the addition of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to the House Intelligence Committee. Jordan, a top Trump defender and the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, replaced Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), who hasn’t been active in all depositions.

Seeking reelection in 2018, Nunes faced a serious challenge for the first time from a well-funded Democrat amid criticism from his home state of California for his outspoken defense of Trump during the Russia investigation. But the Fresno Republican managed to outraise his opponent by more than $3 million, hauling in $12.6 million to successfully defend his seat, winning the race by a narrow margin.

With an influx of cash ahead of 2020, Nunes quickly put the money to use. Almost 80 percent of his spending — $2.3 million — went to fundraising efforts to rake in more cash. The campaign has spent $340,691 on digital, radio and TV ad buying this year, as well as $654,975 on postage and mailing, Federal Election Commission records show. Nunes also doled out $25,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee.

While Nunes holds the most cash among all House members, Schiff comes as a close second.

The California Democrat significantly outraised his opponent during the midterm election, winning almost 80 percent of the votes. But Schiff has now come under fire from Republicans, conservative groups as well as the president himself for leading the impeachment inquiry into Trump for his alleged “quid pro quo” with Zelensky. Many House Republicans, including Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) and Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), have run Facebook ads to denounce Schiff or call for his resignation.

Schiff’s campaign, however, has profited off of the attacks. In a recent Facebook ad, Schiff’s campaign alluded to the impeachment inquiry as “critical” and asked for $16 donations from its audience to help reelect him.

Having presided over all the impeachment hearings behind closed doors, Schiff now has a cash reserve of $6.8 million, most of which came from retirees, lawyers and investors. The prosecutor-turned-politician amassed $221,103 from lawyers, some of whom are among his top donors.

Schiff also leads House members in contributions from publishers and is among the top recipients of money from the TV production and distribution industry. He received $1.9 million, or 44 percent of his campaign funds, from small-dollar donors.

The campaign has spent at least $844,747 on print and digital advertising this year, records show. It paid $716,945 to Authentic Campaigns, a communications firm that also provides services to Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) on a seven-figure contract. Schiff’s team has bought more than $400,000 worth of Facebook ads since last May.

Researchers Doug Weber and Andrew Mayersohn contributed to this report.