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GOP "Weaponization" Of Federal Government Hearing Underway

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The Republican-led House of Representatives is shortly due to kick off its flagship investigation into the Biden Administration's alleged "Weaponization of the Federal Government."

  • Proceeding can be followed here: https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hea...:~:text=The%20Select%20Subcommittee%20on%20the,attacks%20on%20American%20civil%20liberties.
  • The committee is widely seen as a tit-for-tat probe into the Biden Administration in response to the January 6 Commission, which held numerous public hearings investigating Former President Donald Trump's role in the January 6 insurrection, during the last Congress.
  • The Committee probe is part of a broader GOP drive to expose alleged Biden Administration failings on border control, immigration, corruption, and a supposed “leftist takeover” of government agencies.
  • House Republicans claim that the Department of Justice and FBI were used by the Biden Administration to investigate political opponents within the Republican Party.
  • A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll found that "Americans, by and large, don’t think the committee’s purpose is legitimate. Americans say, by a margin of 56 percent to 36 percent, that the committee is 'just an attempt to score political points...'"

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