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Hicks, 30, who grew up in Greenwich, worked as White House communications director and the White House director of strategic communications after having served as a senior aide on Trump's presidential campaign.
Hicks is the first former Trump aide to testify before the committee, which is probing several matters regarding the Trump Administration, including whether the president or anyone close to him obstructed then-special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
A transcript of Hicks' testimony given on Wednesday, June 19 is expected to be released by Friday.
Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., told reporters his committee could destroy the White House doctrine of "complete immunity" in court, but said he hadn’t decided yet if they will make Hicks the "test case."
"Hope Hicks answered some questions. She gave us a lot of good information. The White House asserted so-called absolute immunity, which is ridiculous and which we’ll destroy in court," Nadler said, according to multiple news reports.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, said that the committee will seek testimony from Mueller and former White House Counsel Don McGahn, calling Hicks “one peg on the board.”
"Hope Hicks is a building block in determining what our next steps are and whether or not this administration engaged in misconduct, and that's what we secured today," Jackson Lee told Capitol Hill reporters.
The congresswoman, like many others, declined to describe Hicks’s testimony in detail.
For earlier Daily Voice coverage of Hicks, click here as well as here.
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