Republican House Speaker IN PANIC Over Investigation As His Own Party Turns On Him
May 3, 2025
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as posted by the channelRepublican House Speaker Mike Johnson goes full panic as he desperately tries to bury any vote into investigating Donald Trump's administration through a probe of Pete Hegseth, which even gets called out in backlash by members of his own party. John Iadarola and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Democrat Rips GOP’s ‘Partisan Ploy’ To Block Probe Of Pete Hegseth’s Signal Scandal
"WASHINGTON – Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) on Thursday ripped his Republican colleagues for using a sneaky procedural maneuver to block his effort to force an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal, a third-party messaging app, for sharing classified war plans with intelligence officials, his wife, his brother and others.
Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, recently filed a resolution of inquiry directing the Trump administration to turn over all communications related to Hegseth last month discussing an impending military attack on Yemen in a Signal group chat with top intelligence officials, and separately, with members of his family.
Any member of Congress can file a resolution of inquiry; it’s a tool that lawmakers have for obtaining information from the executive branch. When someone files a resolution of inquiry on a given subject, the committee with jurisdiction over it has 14 days to act on it. If the committee doesn’t act, anyone can bring it up on the House floor and force a vote on it.
Smith’s resolution of inquiry never got a vote in the House Armed Services Committee. That meant it was on track to ripen, essentially, by the end of next week, at which point Democrats could force a vote on it."
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