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During an interview with right-wing Fox News on Wednesday, June 12, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) offered some possible ways to “rein in” Jack Smith — the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel who is prosecuting two federal criminal cases against former President Donald Trump.
Johnson, a Trump loyalist, proposed using “the power of the purse” to defund Smith’s office. And some Democrats have been arguing that when Johnson threatens to defund the DOJ, he is doing something that Republicans often accuse Democrats of: defunding the police (in fact, many prominent Democrats, from President Joe Biden to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, have made it clear that defunding law enforcement is something they vehemently oppose).
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