Major Battles Ahead

Jordan’s investigation needs to have as many resources, if not more, than the ridiculous kangaroo court known as the January 6th Committee. And it is not enough to merely uncover “the bad apples” in these agencies and what programs are being used to go after law-abiding Americans for the “crime” of resisting socialism. 

I know many of you are probably thinking, “What can they really do? They only have the House?” 

Well, for starters, they can make criminal referrals to demonstrate the seriousness of these abuses. But this is where the power of the purse comes into play, and it is long past time for Congress to reassert its oversight responsibility and its funding authority. 

Any official who engaged in such abuses should have their salaries zeroed out, and agency offices should be defunded until clear safeguards are put in place. And I am pleased to report that the new House majority has taken the first step in this process. 

One of the provisions just adopted in the “controversial” rules package demanded by House conservatives is known as the Holman Rule. It allows Congress to defund individual programs and even zero-out the salaries of individual federal employees.

Use of the Holman Rule will undoubtedly set up major battles with the progressive-dominated Senate.  The House majority must hold strong if Senate liberals, along with appeasement-minded Senate Republicans, attempt to block these cuts. 

And 20 brave House conservatives just showed us how that’s done. They forced the rest of the GOP caucus to do the right thing – precisely what the entire House GOP caucus must now do when dealing with the Biden White House, Senate liberals and spineless GOP senators who can’t wait to be “bipartisan.”