Bolstered by conservative outrage over revelations in the 'Twitter Files' released by Elon Musk, House Republicans plan a new Judiciary Committee panel with the working name 'Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.'
for the new panel include the FBI, Justice Department and the intelligence community — plus the Department of Homeland Security's, who wrote that the committee "is a recognition that the recent revelations about government meddling in speech and politics go beyond the FBI."The idea was driven by House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, responding to requests from several conservative members, a GOP aide tells me.
McCarthy held a meeting about the new panel with incoming House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and incoming House Oversight Chairman James Comer .
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