House Republicans are preparing an all-out offensive against the Biden administration in the event they win back the majority in the 2022 ...
House Republicans are preparing an all-out offensive against the Biden administration in the event they win back the majority in the 2022 midterm elections, a new report claimed on Sunday.
Multiple opinion polls combined with Democrats' lackluster performance in this year's races point to a potential red wave come November, threatening President Joe Biden's chances of holding on to a slim majority in Congress.
GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy is planning to send out preservation notices to several departments within the administration in preparation for a slew of investigations to take up the second half of Biden's first term, Axios reported.
That includes probes ranging from well-known GOP criticisms including Biden's handling of the pandemic, Afghanistan withdrawal and the border crisis.
They're also reportedly looking at an Internal Revenue Service leak and Fox News host Tucker Carlson's claims he was spied on by the National Security Agency.
McCarthy is working on recruiting legal counsel and advisers as well as other resources to embark on the investigations on Republicans' first day as the majority party, the report details.
One of those probes will allegedly be into the Biden Justice Department's crackdown on violence in educational settings. Attorney General Merrick Garland had directed the FBI to work with local law enforcement to tackle a 'disturbing trend' of violent outbursts against teachers and other school officials after a letter from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) likened angry parents to 'domestic terrorists,' which the group has since apologized for.
Another will explore Biden and his defense officials' decisions leading up to the military's withdrawal from Afghanistan over the summer, for which the president has received bipartisan criticism.
One of them will be how the Biden administration handled the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan over the summer
They're also reportedly looking for information into Americans who were left stranded despite Biden's vow to remain a presence in Kabul until all US citizens were evacuated.
Republican lawmakers also plan to dive into the crisis at the southern border after illegal crossings reached a 21-year high in July and remain high above recent years' totals.
On the coronavirus pandemic, over which there's been fierce opposition to Biden's vaccine orders and mask mandates, GOP members of Congress want to look into the communications that led to school closures and face covering rules.
They're also hoping to study the origins of COVID-19, despite a previous investigation by the World Health Organization coming up inconclusive due to China's lack of cooperation.
Republican lawmakers have saved particularly harsh criticism for Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden's chief medical adviser, over allegations he green-lit funding for an experimental virus program in Wuhan, where the coronavirus first originated.
Lawmakers are interested in allegations made by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the NSA was spying on him and his primetime news show
And in what seems to be departure from their expected political ambitions, the House GOP is curious about accusations Tucker Carlson made on his primetime program that the NSA was targeting him and his show.
The NSA later released a statement claiming Carlson was never an intelligence asset nor has it 'had any plans to take his program off the air.'
According to the report Republicans also want to look into a leak of IRS data detailing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little or none at all in taxes compared to their vast wealth.
The leak was reported in a bombshell ProPublica investigation exposing billionaires who dodge paying thousands or even millions of dollars.
McCarthy and his colleagues are also hoping to look into a Defense Department contract Amazon was trying to acquire for as much as $10 billion. Republican lawmakers claimed in June that a series of emails first obtained by the New York Times showed that the tech giant tried to use undue influence to win a cloud computing contract that eventually went to Microsoft.
The reported communications between Amazon and military officials took place under the Trump administration.
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