House Republicans are preparing to investigate the Justice Department and the FBI, including their “ongoing criminal investigations,” setting up a showdown with the Biden administration and law enforcement over their criminal investigations, particularly those against former President Donald Trump.
The new GOP majority in the House of Representatives has proposed forming a new select subcommittee, the result of one of the key concessions that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made to his opposition to secure the gavel.
In addition to the authority to investigate all ongoing executive branch criminal investigations, the federal government’s select subcommittee on arms would also be “authorized to receive information available to the permanent select committee on intelligence,” giving it access to the most highly classified information in Congress, according to the proposal.
An earlier draft of the select subcommittee proposal gave it less authority and was much narrower in scope: It would have been able to focus only on the FBI, DOJ and Department of Homeland Security, and made no mention of gaining access to ongoing criminal investigations .
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, an early opponent of McCarthy who has become a key negotiator for hardliners, said on Fox News that the changes made to the select subcommittee proposal, specifically the demand for a budget as large as the Jan. 6 select committee, was the key to winning over those who initially opposed McCarthy.
“So we have more resources, more specificity, more power to go after this recalcitrant Biden administration,” Roy said Friday. “That’s really important.”
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