Don Beyer tweeted the following:
"And this is the key point: amid the investigation of Donald Trump for mishandling classified materials and sensitive national security secrets, the House Freedom Caucus wants to use the Holman Rule to, in their words, "start defunding the FBI, the DOJ. twitter.com/Acyn/status/15"Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Don Beyer:
"The Freedom Caucus tried to punish feds with this in 2017-18, but were thwarted by their leadership. My colleagues and I repealed the rule in 2019.But today's GOP and Kevin McCarthy are under the Freedom Caucus' thumb. They are demanding that the Holman Rule be reinstated."Read on Twitter
"It's a 19th century procedural change in the House called the "Holman Rule."The Holman Rule changed over time, but in its most recent form it allowed the use of must-pass spending bills to eliminate salaries of individual federal employees or to zero funding for a whole office."Read on Twitter
"An important story from @ThePlumLineGS: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/If he returns to office, Donald Trump hopes to purge the civil service in order to protect himself from threats to his power.But Republicans are plotting to use an arcane tool to attack investigations much sooner."Read on Twitter
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