Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, stated that she would not support any package for financing the government unless it included cuts intended to end pending criminal investigations against the former president Donald Trump.
“The unprecedented demand will likely garner momentum among the furthest-right members of the House Republican caucus. It also complicates what’s already shaping up to be a contentious fight, with the federal government’s functioning and the potential for a fiscal crisis hanging in the balance. Once a fringe member of the caucus, Greene has emerged as a key ally of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy,” According to Business Insider.
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The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice, according to Greene, have “weaponized their power” against Republicans and anyone who is “aligned with Trump.”
“I’ve made up my mind. I will NOT vote for a budget that funds the two tiered justice system in America. The Democrat controlled DOJ and FBI top brass are political and have weaponized their power against the right to persecute everyone with conservative values and aligned with Trump, but refuses to prosecute the left for their crimes. The Republican controlled budget must defund the two-tiered justice system and reign in the politically weaponized DOJ and FBI, or I will not vote for it,” she said.
In a statement, Greene’s spokesman Nick Dyer cleverly alluded to the Holman rule and highlighted Congress’ prospective ability to deliberately focus on certain federal employee wages and identify specific government programs for termination.
Greene’s remarks are in reaction to claims that “Trump is facing potential felony indictment over recording payments made to his attorney, which were then paid out to porn star Stormy Daniels in alleged hush money, as legal fees,” On Saturday, The Post Millennial published a story.
House Republicans said earlier this year that they intended to reinstate the contentious Holman rule, which greatly incensed and alienated their Democratic colleagues.
Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from New York, complained on the House floor that Republicans are reviving a requirement to insert language in spending bills that “can rearrange an agency or slash specific positions or salaries.”
“But the rule could also be used to target an individual over ideological differences or say a special counsel, like the one overseeing the Justice Department’s investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. Of course, the Democratic-led Senate would have to go along for any such rescissions to take effect, which is highly unlikely,” According to the Associated Press. “The House Freedom Caucus even specifically named Dr. Anthony Fauci in calling for the rule’s reinstatement. Fauci served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, and his efforts to mitigate the damage from COVID-19 clashed with the views of some conservatives closely aligned with former President Donald Trump.”
Ritchie worried that “the Holman rule would enable House Republicans to zero out funding for a criminal investigation into Donald Trump.”
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Greene made a brave step by supporting the “Holman rule” and urging other Republicans to think about impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland. Greene also demanded that public money intended for a special prosecutor to look into the conduct of former President Donald Trump be obstructed.
Greene requested that the Republicans “refuse to appropriate any funding to Merrick Garland’s Special Counsel and defund any part of the DOJ acting on behalf of the Democrat party as a taxpayer-funded campaign arm for the Democrat’s 2024 presidential nominee.”
Greene reveals an intriguing idea, revealing that former House Minority Leader McCarthy intends to halt funding for the DOJ special counsel investigating Trump. Watch this exciting chess battle closely!
McCarthy’s desire to exploit the clever Holman rule, which allows the House to craftily amend spending bills to cut wages, fire specific federal employees, or deftly remove specified programs, was made known by Greene.
“Holman Rule. Look it up! [McCarthy] is going to put it in place,” Greene wrote. “That means no money for Garland’s politically weaponized Special Counsel. Don’t promise too many jobs! Whoops defunded.”
