{"id":1266850,"date":"2022-02-02T20:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T01:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266850"},"modified":"2022-02-02T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T01:22:46","slug":"exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-plots-an-investigation-avalanche-if-gop-retakes-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-plots-an-investigation-avalanche-if-gop-retakes-house\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Kevin McCarthy plots an investigation avalanche if GOP retakes House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-kevin-mccarthy-plots-an-investigation-avalanche-if-gop-retakes-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266850&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Biden\u2019s DOJ, Department of Education and COVID policies are prime targets for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy should Republicans retake the House in the midterms this November, according to a sprawling list of priorities his office sent exclusively to the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already sent preservation notices and document requests and will be ready on day one to use the various tools at our disposal to get the answers Americans are demanding,\u201d a McCarthy spokesperson told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s office cited \u201cpolitically motivated actions by the DOJ\u201d and the Department of Education\u2019s \u201ccollusion with the school board association to target parents as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/19\/house-republicans-andy-biggs-letter-merrick-garland-parents-doj-domestic-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">domestic terrorists<\/a>\u201d as oversight priorities. The entirety of President Joe Biden\u2019s covid response is also on the table. McCarthy plans to pursue answers on the origins of covid, failures in the Biden\u2019s testing regime and continuing school closures, and the refusal of Biden health officials to accept natural immunity in its guidance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden protects liberal activists but turns a blind eye to rising crime. Biden has opened the border, supported mandates that have hurt students in the classroom and parental rights, allowed Big Tech to silence conservatives, and has overseen leaks of private information on American citizens under his watch,\u201d McCarthy told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s office rounded out the top end of the list with pledges to investigate border policies \u201cthat have led to record illegal immigration and crime along the border\u201d as well as how many Americans were left behind by the \u201cdecisions\u201d that led to the \u201cbotched Afghanistan withdrawal\u201d and 13 dead service members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats in Congress have skirted real accountability for too long while shielding this Administration from answering the tough questions,\u201d a spokesperson told the Caller.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans won\u2019t stop there, according to McCarthy\u2019s plan, they intend to go after big tech and corporate America, which his office said they \u201csee as attacking free speech, going woke, or cozying up to China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden promised to unite the country, but instead he has done everything in his power to divide Americans, go after his political opponents, and cover up for his failures \u2013 both at home with a costly economic policy that has grown deficits and inflation and abroad with the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan,\u201d McCarthy told the Caller.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy slammed Biden over a number of other issues, including his unwillingness to do anything about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/24\/jen-psaki-peter-doocy-white-house-crime-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spike in crime<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/14\/yuma-mexico-jorge-ventura-border-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">border crisis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/10\/inflation-consumer-price-index-joe-biden-jerome-powell-bureau-labor-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inflation<\/a>, and vaccine <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/26\/chip-roy-letter-fda-peter-marks-covid-vaccine-infants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mandates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7364568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7364568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), and House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) listen during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol September 25, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, he\u2019s ignored the origins of COVID and holding the Chinese government accountable while government-imposed mandates burden our economy and crush our way of life. The American people deserve answers from an Administration that is not being held to account by one-party rule in Congress. A Republican majority would use every tool at our disposal for aggressive accountability of Biden\u2019s failures because Americans need Washington to work for them, and not the other way around,\u201d McCarthy added.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/19\/house-republicans-andy-biggs-letter-merrick-garland-parents-doj-domestic-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Demand Answers From AG Merrick Garland After Whistleblower Reveals Info That Contradicts Testimony)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s office mentioned Democrats blocking Republicans\u2019 ability to offer resolutions of inquiry, which is a procedural tool that goes back to the first Congress that can be used to get information from the Executive Branch. McCarthy\u2019s office told the Caller that Democrats have used the blockade on this tool 17 times, to a total number of over 600 days now.<\/p>\n<p>On tech companies, McCarthy\u2019s office said they plan on providing an expedited court process with a direct appeal to the Supreme Court and hope to empower state attorneys general to help lead the charge against the tech giants to break them up. McCarthy also plans on reforming the administrative state and removing obstructions that delay taking action on Big Tech. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/10\/kevin-mccarthy-house-republicans-letter-attending-physician-mask-mandate-capitol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: McCarthy, House Republicans Call For Answers From Attending Physician Over Mask Mandate Implemented In Capitol)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Democrats have advanced a plan that not only ignores addressing conservative censorship, it makes it worse. And their plan empowers a federal bureaucracy with no accountability. We have more faith in elected state leaders than in the unelected federal bureaucracy, which is as ideologically homogeneous as Big Tech. In other words, former House member Jeff Landry will more effectively prosecute anti-competitive behavior than Lina Khan,\u201d McCarthy said in a June 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.gov\/framework-to-stop-the-bias-and-check-big-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a> to members.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to challenging \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d inside Congress, McCarthy\u2019s office said if McCarthy is elected Speaker on Day one in office he would, abolish proxy voting and remote committee business, repeal mask mandates and the associated fines, remove the magnetometers from the House floor and re-open the Capitol to the American people. He also intends to strip Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee and Democratic California Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff off the Intelligence Committee. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/13\/house-republicans-andy-biggs-introduce-bill-prohibit-agencies-covid-funds-vaccine-mandates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Introduce Bill That Would Prohibit Agencies That Received COVID Funds From Issuing Vaccine Mandates)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans see Big Business drifting further away from creating jobs and building products and services. They\u2019ve noticed corporate America often takes sides not because of a shared interest in our future \u2014 but for fear of cancel culture or progressive repercussions. House Republicans will always speak on behalf of the people we represent, and if we earn the opportunity to serve as the majority \u2014 which is quite likely \u2014 we will fight for working Americans, period,\u201d McCarthy\u2019s office told the Caller.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy is likely to become the Speaker of the House if Republicans can win back the House in the midterm elections. He has been leading Republicans since 2019. Before becoming leader, he served as House Majority Leader from 2014-2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden\u2019s DOJ, Department of Education and COVID policies are prime targets for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy should Republicans retake the House in the midterms this November, according to a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}