| For Immediate Release June 5, 2024 Contact: Taylor Haulsee WASHINGTON — This afternoon, Speaker Johnson joined Neil Cavuto on Fox News’s Your World with Neil Cavuto to discuss President Biden’s election-year border charade, the Democrats’ abuse of the American justice system, and the House’s oversight responsibilities over the Department of Justice. Click here to watch the full interview On President Biden’s disastrous Executive Order: We had to impeach Secretary Mayorkas. He has a serious problem with the truth. What he’s saying is comical. He just said that the Republicans didn’t act; we passed HR 2, the most secure border measure in the history of Congress 14 months ago. It is still sitting on Chuck Schumer’s desk in the Senate right now. That would’ve actually fixed the problem. If they [Democrats] wanted to secure the border, they could have. But Neil, that’s the very issue here. The President and Mayorkas engineered the open border. They did it intentionally. They began on the first day of the Biden administration with his executive orders. We documented 64 specific executive actions that Biden and Mayorkas took to open that border wide, to put out the welcome mat, and invite everybody to come in. And, you know, who’s come in? Many dangerous people…. It’s maddening. They should have closed it on day one, but they kept it open this long because they wanted to. And everybody knows that. If he really wanted to solve the border, Neil, he could close the border entirely. But this half measure executive order, he just did actually exacerbates the problem. He’s allowing thousands of people over the border every day before they just begin to enforce existing federal immigration law. It makes no sense. And everyone around the country wants to do know: why would they do that? It’s because they [Democrats] want to turn these people into voters. On Democrats’ Weaponization of the Justice System: We have a responsibility here. You know, Congress has very particular duties under the Constitution. We have the responsibility of oversight, and that’s what we’ve been engaging in. We have the responsibility to legislate and to appropriate. And when you’re talking about funding for rogue prosecutors and offices like, like Alvin Bragg, who by some estimates or early estimates, he received almost a million dollars of federal taxpayer fund in the last year to do what? To have politicized prosecutions of a political opponent of his party. They’re [Democrats] undermining the people’s faith and our institutions, our system of justice itself. What we are doing, Neil, is the opposite. We are trying to adhere to the rule of law. We are trying to use the authority and the responsibility that we have in Congress to ensure that people can trust our justice system. It’s absolutely essential to maintain a constitutional republic. And they are undermining the public’s faith in that we are here to hold the line and say, no, the rule of law has to be adhered to. And we can’t have rogue prosecutors using our courts for political vendettas. And that’s exactly what they’re doing to Donald Trump. On the House GOP Oversight Effort: These are clear violations of federal law, and this is an opportunity for Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, to prove if he wants to demonstrate that there’s not a two-tiered system of justice, then they need to use the, the mechanisms, the appropriate steps that the Department of Justice should take in a case like this. You have three committees of jurisdiction in Congress who have done a long, methodical investigation, impeachment inquiry. And these are the facts that they have uncovered. They have laid out the examples, and they’re presenting this squarely to the Attorney General, which is our Constitutional responsibility in the House. We have oversight responsibility, we’re using it and, and we are charged with impeachment investigations. They’ve used that. And now you take it to the next logical and important step, and the ball is now in the court of the Attorney General. He just testified here just this week that, that he, he doesn’t want to show that there’s a two-tiered system of justice. Well, he has an opportunity now to prove it to the American people, and we’ll see what step he takes. ### |
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