The hidden danger posed by a MAGA takeover of the House

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Awful framing: Media reports keep saying Republicans plan to use a GOP House to seek "revenge" for Dems' treatment of Trump. No! Rs will abuse House investigatory powers to try to place Trump above the law. That's not equivalent to anything Ds are doing.

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Opinion | The hidden danger posed by a MAGA takeover of the House
How Republicans could use their House majority to place Trump above the law.
9:52 AM · Sep 8, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/08/trump-maga-house-takeover-2022-election/

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But the threat of a MAGA House takeover is even worse than this. That’s because a MAGA-fied House will have another, underdiscussed tactic at its disposal: using its fiscal and investigative powers to try to defund or hobble any and all investigations and prosecutions involving Trump.

How might this work? Here’s one way: A GOP majority could reinstate an obscure House rule permitting Republicans to use spending bills to zero out salaries of specific federal officials, or nix blocks of federal employees, functionally killing specific programs.

For instance, they might attempt to kill the salary of Attorney General Merrick Garland. Or they could try to defund — or cancel — any ongoing law enforcement investigations of Trump.

We need to distinguish this tactic from defunding the FBI, which GOP members such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia have demanded. In a more MAGA-fied House, that effort might find support, but most Republicans probably wouldn’t back a wholesale dismantling of federal law enforcement.

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[FakeNoose]

1. Democrats cannot allow this to happen - not now, not ever!

Every Dem must vote, and bring everyone they know to the polls on November 8th.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. We won't survive apathy -- voters can and must save democracy from MAGAts...

[yankee87]

2. Destroy the government

This is the Qpublican plan all along. I love your theory and it wouldn’t surprise me they’ll do that to protect their messiah.