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Speaker Johnson Announces Plan to Investigate the January 6 Committee
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced on Thursday that House Republicans intend to launch an investigation into the now-disbanded House Select Committee that probed the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Johnson criticized the committee’s actions and accused its members of pushing a partisan narrative.
Johnson also took aim at President Joe Biden’s decision to award the Presidential Citizens Medal to former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), both prominent members of the January 6 committee. In a post on the social platform X, he called the president’s move “foolish,” claiming the honorees “intentionally and repeatedly lied to the American people.”
“The January 6 Select Committee manipulated and destroyed evidence to fabricate a narrative designed to harm President Trump,” Johnson alleged. “They even brought in a TV producer in an attempt to lend credibility to what was a blatant hoax and a complete waste of time.”
Johnson pledged that House Republicans would thoroughly investigate the actions of the committee. “House Republicans WILL continue our investigation into this corrupt committee, and it will be FULLY FUNDED to continue into the next Congress,” he said.
Earlier in December, House Republicans had released a report criticizing the January 6 committee for what they described as its “failures and politicization.” The report accused the committee of using taxpayer dollars to create a one-sided account of the events surrounding January 6, with a primary goal of blaming then-President Trump for the violence at the Capitol.
“Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar Select Committee was nothing more than a political weapon, intended to deceive the public and tarnish President Trump’s legacy,” the report stated. It also recommended a criminal investigation into Cheney for her role in the committee’s work.
The Republican investigation into the January 6 committee is likely to spark further partisan debate in Congress, as both sides continue to clash over the events of that day and the subsequent inquiry.