Scalise Orders House GOP Chairs to Prep for Democratic Probes

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise sent a letter Thursday urging committee chairs to use their remaining time in the majority to prepare for the Democratic investigations expected once Democrats take over the House, Fox News reported.

The guidance has three parts: inventory current and likely future Democratic investigative efforts, identify who is on Democrats' target list, and review how recent Supreme Court rulings and a Justice Department memo on executive privilege could affect future probes. The letter lists possible targets as "administration officials, programs and authorities, and external allies."

"They will weaponize every single gavel to appease their radical base," Scalise wrote. "You all will be a key line of defense in this fight."

Democrats are not hiding the plan. Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the likely next Oversight chair, said "Lawyer up" after Democrats were projected to win the House, and has vowed to take on "the Trump Crime Family," DHS and ICE, and "the cover-up of the Epstein files." House Homeland Security Democrats are reportedly preparing to probe DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Democrats on Judiciary countered that Scalise is asking Republicans to compile a list of the "corruption, lawlessness, and abuse they've been protecting."

The letter comes a day after Scalise launched a bid for House minority leader against Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan.