A left-wing group allied with President Joe Biden has vowed to push back on Republican investigations into the Biden administration following the Republican takeover of the House as the GOP plans investigations into Hunter Biden and more.
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The Congressional Integrity Project, which originally operated in 2020 but has gone silent during Biden’s presidency, said it was getting back to work now that Republicans would be holding power in the House of Representatives starting next year. “The Congressional Integrity Project is committed to exposing the reality behind Republicans’ politically motivated oversight and investigations targeting President Biden and Democrats,” the group said Thursday after its public relaunch.
The group, the leadership of which includes close allies of Biden as well as former top figures in former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns, said it will launch a multimillion-dollar effort “to expose the reality behind the politically motivated oversight and investigations targeting President Biden and his administration already announced by congressional Republicans.” The group framed this as a promise to “investigate the investigators.”
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The group’s relaunch on Thursday coincided with a press conference by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), expected to lead the House Judiciary Committee next year, and Rep. James Comer, who will hold the gavel in House Oversight, as the duo announced the findings from their investigations into Hunter Biden.
The GOP speeches were followed by the release of a 31-page interim report titled “A President Compromised: The Biden Family Investigation.”
“President Joe Biden has participated in his family’s global business ventures with America’s adversaries. He has misused his public positions to further his family’s financial interests,” the GOP report alleges. “These actions have created the potential for President Biden to be susceptible to influence, blackmail, or extortion by a malign or foreign entity, including the Chinese Communist Party.”
House Republicans have also vowed to conduct oversight investigations, including into the Justice Department and FBI, the border security crisis, the origins of COVID-19, and the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which resulted in the Taliban back in power.
“The Congressional Integrity Project is exposing the truth behind these investigations, spotlighting these officials’ hypocrisy, and exposing the truth about their records and extreme agenda that does nothing for the American people,” the group said, adding it will put together a “comprehensive war room for rapid response, research, earned and paid media, social media, and coordination with allies.”
The group touted that it is “being led by top Democratic operatives and progressive strategists.”
The group’s executive director is Kyle Herrig, who is also a board chairman of the left-wing American Oversight transparency group and the president and founder of Accountable US, a left-wing advocacy group.
The New Venture Fund, which is managed by the massive left-wing dark money network Arabella Advisors, gave grants to Accountable US totaling $2.67 million in 2021, $1.49 million in 2020, and $4.65 million in 2019.
Jeff Peck, who is advising the group, had been the treasurer and vice chairman of the Biden Foundation, a nonprofit group founded by Biden after his vice presidency, and was a senior adviser to the Biden-Harris transition team after then-President Donald Trump was defeated in 2020. Peck was the Senate Judiciary Committee’s staff director when Biden led it as a senator and when now-White House chief of staff Ron Klain was its chief counsel.
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Brad Woodhouse is a senior adviser for the Congressional Integrity Project and is also the executive director for the left-wing healthcare advocacy group Protect Our Care. Woodhouse previously led the left-wing advocacy groups Americans United for Change and American Bridge and also led Correct the Record, a super PAC for Clinton, in 2016. He was also a senior strategist for Obama’s two presidential campaigns and communications director for the Democratic National Committee.
Leslie Dach is a Congressional Integrity Project senior adviser and is also the founder of Protect Our Care and co-chairman of the left-wing Defend Democracy Project.
