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House Republicans fired back at the White House on Thursday after the counsel’s office rejected GOP oversight requests.
On Thursday morning, White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Oversight Committee ranking member James Comer, R-Ky., to say that the administration did not plan to respond to letters seeking information for potential House probes, telling the congressmen that they needed to resend those requests once they take over their committees in the next Congress.
The lawmakers are anticipated to lead the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, respectively, when Republicans take the majority next month in the 118th Congress.
The Republicans say that the move is an effort to “obstruct congressional oversight.”
“President Biden promised to have the most transparent administration in history, but at every turn the Biden White House seeks to obstruct congressional oversight and hide information from the American people,” Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said.
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“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking for the American people on important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins and the Biden family’s influence peddling,” Comer said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“President Biden promised to have the most transparent administration in history, but at every turn the Biden White House seeks to obstruct congressional oversight and hide information from the American people,” he said.
In November, Jordan wrote to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain ahead of the new Congress, where Republicans will hold the majority, requesting documents and related information “concerning the Biden Administration’s misuse of…
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