The chamber is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the creation of a panel being billed as the “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.”
the House is poised to consider a resolution creating a new panel to probe Biden administration investigations, including “ongoing criminal investigations” at the Justice Department such as those involving former president Donald Trump. The panel, which House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) agreed to create following demands by hard-line conservatives, is being billed as the “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.” The House is also poised to sign off on another new select committee that would examine “strategic competition” between the United States and China.
President Biden is in Mexico City, where he has meetings planned with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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The Republican-led House is poised to pass a resolution Tuesday that would create a select subcommittee to probe the “weaponization of the federal government” — a panel that would take aim at law enforcement and national security agencies in the Biden administration.
Hard-line conservatives pushed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to agree to the panel’s formation.
According to the resolution, sponsored by Rep.
