Posted on Friday, February 21, 2025
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NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND—Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, laid out a plan to combat the Left’s infrastructure in Washington as the Department of Government Efficiency exposed how taxpayer funding went to support left-wing activists and causes.
“Talk about what the Oversight Committee is doing … to really root out this corruption and this infrastructure the Left has built in D.C. to really push their political agenda on the entire country,” Townhall Editor Katie Pavlich asked Comer on the main stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday.
Comer pledged that his committee will follow up on the corruption that President Donald Trump and DOGE unveil.
“We will follow through with investigation, with subpoena power,” he responded. “Follow the money, that’s what we did in the Biden investigation. We got the bank records.”
Comer released a book in January titled “All the President’s Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes That Made the Biden Family Rich,” exposing how former President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and other family members reaped rewards by trading off the influence of Joe Biden’s official positions.
Comer warned potential investigators that “tax records don’t always tell the true picture,” but he noted that “bank records don’t lie.”
“Banks usually catch when something suspicious happens,” he said, so his team focuses on bank records.
He mentioned the Democrat fundraising company ActBlue, which faces accusations that it made “straw donations” in the names of elderly Democrats who did not intend to donate to cover up the actual sources of its funding.
“We’re doing this now with ActBlue, and I think we’re going to have some very interesting information to come out very soon on ActBlue,” Comer teased.
He also noted that the House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on March 5 with the mayors of “sanctuary cities.”
“They have tried to obstruct what Tom Homan is doing and obstruct deportation efforts,” Comer noted, referring to Trump’s border czar. “Who’s been paying for this? I believe you’re going to see there are a lot of government pots of money that have been funneling through these [nongovernmental organizations].”
Indeed, many nonprofits have received federal funds to move illegal aliens across the U.S., and they are now filing lawsuits to block Trump’s order defunding them.
“That’s what we want to identify,” he noted. “[Elon] Musk is all over that, DOGE is all over that, and Congress is going to be all over that. Hopefully, we can show the American people how abusive the Democrats and their allies in the deep state bureaucracies have been with their tax dollars.”
Alina Habba, Trump’s lawyer in the White House who previously served as a legal spokeswoman for Trump, also spoke about the Left’s “lawfare” (legal warfare) at the conference.
She remarked that Trump won the election in November in part as backlash to the multiple Democrat prosecutors filing charges against him. And when Trump got into office for his second term and the new administration started fulfilling its campaign promises, the Democrats and their allies started filing lawsuits yet again.
Many of the same groups filing lawsuits against Trump had access in the Biden White House, as my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” exposes. Some of the woke activist groups in the book also had ties to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which DOGE has uncovered.
Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”
Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Signal – By Tyler O’Neil
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