Speaker Says House GOP Weighing Defunding Special Counsel Jack Smith by Samantha Flom – US Politics News

House Republicans are “looking very intently” at defunding the office of special counsel Jack Smith, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on May 7.
At a House Republican leadership press conference, the speaker was asked whether that option was being considered given his opposition to Mr. Smith’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
“I think there are serious questions on the part of the American people, and they want to know—they’re asking us—what we can do to ensure that the law is followed. And we’re looking at every possible angle on that instinct,” Mr. Johnson said.
The speaker decried Mr. Smith’s cases against the former president as an example of the Biden administration’s “weaponization” of the justice system against its political opponents—an allegation the administration and Democrats dispute….