House Democrats investigate Trump's $230M demand to DOJ

• House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Oversight Committee ranking member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) are leading the probe.
• "Your plan to have your obedient underlings at the Department of Justice (DOJ) instruct the U.S. Treasury to pay you, personally, hundreds of millions of dollars ... is an outrageous and shocking attempt to shake down the American people," they wrote in a letter to Trump.
• "We urge you to renounce your plan publicly and assure the American people that their President is not pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars at their expense."

Driving the news: The New York Times first reported Tuesday that Trump made administrative claims during the Biden presidency complaining about the Mueller probe the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.

• The issue had not been a matter of top-level discussion after Trump re-entered office, Axios' Marc Caputo reported, until the president himself brought it up last week.
• "I have a lawsuit that was doing very well. And when I became president, I said: 'I'm sort of suing myself,'" he said during an Oval office appearance with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel.

• ""How do you settle the lawsuit? I'll say: 'Give me X dollars,' right? And I don't know what to do with the lawsuit — it's a great lawsuit."

What they're saying: Raskin and Garcia are asking for a wide range of documents, including all administrative claims Trump has filed with the DOJ and any correspondence between his lawyers and DOJ attorneys about the claims.

• They also want correspondence between White House and DOJ officials, any internal DOJ memos or legal analyses about the claims and any documents indicating their current status.
• The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.