{"id":1604028,"date":"2022-08-13T00:48:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T04:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1604028"},"modified":"2022-08-13T00:48:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T04:48:14","slug":"house-gop-should-step-up-action-to-weed-out-corruption-in-wake-of-fbi-trump-raid-says-rep-loudermilk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-should-step-up-action-to-weed-out-corruption-in-wake-of-fbi-trump-raid-says-rep-loudermilk\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Should Step up Action to \u2018Weed out Corruption\u2019 in Wake of FBI Trump Raid, Says Rep. Loudermilk"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fhouse-gop-should-step-up-action-to-weed-out-corruption-in-wake-of-fbi-trump-raid-says-rep-loudermilk%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=1604028&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>The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home is but another instance of government overreach, according to Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.).<\/p>\n<p>The congressman said the Aug. 8 incident will galvanize Republicans in the House to take a tougher approach to investigate misconduct across the entire bureaucracy in the event the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gop\">GOP<\/a> flips the chamber later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our government run amok and without constraints, and we have to rein it in,\u201d Loudermilk told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis seems like it\u2019s a huge overreach,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt rings of weaponization for political purposes of law enforcement, which also brings in huge concerns that the Democrats are about to pass a bill that increases the IRS by 87,000 agents. Are they going to be weaponized to this level as well?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The congressman was referring to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/democrats-700-billion-inflation-reduction-act-could-hurt-us-consumers-workers_4652784.html\">provision<\/a> in the Inflation Reduction Act that gives the Internal Revenue Service $45.6 billion in funding for tax enforcement activities, which is allegedly enough to hire up to 87,000 new agents. The bill passed both the Senate and the House and is now headed to President Joe Biden\u2019s desk for signing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the type of thing that our founders and the framers of our Constitution were afraid that would happen in government if it wasn\u2019t constrained,\u201d Loudermilk said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to get back to the Constitution. And more importantly, Congress needs to more effectively do its job of overseeing and reining in a runaway executive branch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The search warrant was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/judge-unseals-mar-a-lago-raid-warrant-reveals-why-fbi-is-investigating-trump_4661031.html\">unsealed<\/a> on Aug. 12, revealing that the raid was conducted as part of an investigation into whether the former president violated three U.S. laws relating to the handling and destroying of governmental records, defense information, and records on federal investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland on Aug. 11 confirmed that he personally approved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home is but another instance of government overreach, according to Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.). The congressman said the Aug. 8 incident will galvanize Republicans in the House to take a tougher approach to investigate misconduct across the entire bureaucracy in the event the GOP flips the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"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-1604028","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\/1604028","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\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604028\/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=1604028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}