McCarthy To Open With New Committee On Big Tech

Axios reports:

House Republicans plan to launch a new investigative panel this week that will demand copies of White House emails, memos and other communications with Big Tech companies, top sources tell Axios. Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans a quick spate of red-meat actions and announcements to reward hardliners.

The new panel, the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, is partly a response to revelations from Elon Musk in the internal documents he branded the “Twitter Files.” House conservatives requested the subcommittee. McCarthy granted it as he worked to wrangle votes.

Read the full article. Jim Jordan is expected to named chairman of the new committee.