{"id":1177,"date":"2025-09-13T01:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/congress-republicans-want-to-target-liberal-donors-after-charlie-kirks-death\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:52:40","slug":"congress-republicans-want-to-target-liberal-donors-after-charlie-kirks-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/congress-republicans-want-to-target-liberal-donors-after-charlie-kirks-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Republicans want to target liberal donors after Charlie Kirk\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk\u2019s public killing<\/a>, around two dozen Republican lawmakers are pushing for House leadership to create a new select committee that would investigate \u201cThe money, influence, and power behind the radical left\u2019s assault on America and the rule of law.\u201d The letter amounts to a request for subpoena power to dig into political opponents in the media and funding ecosystem that the right deems unduly hostile.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a letter<\/a> led by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)<\/a>, the lawmakers urge House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) to \u201ctake every step to follow the money and uncover the force behind the NGOs, donors, media, public officials, and all entities driving this coordinated attack.\u201d The lawmakers are requesting a new committee composed of members with prosecution and law enforcement backgrounds, who would have subpoena power to carry out investigations to \u201cget to the truth behind the coordinated global network funding and fueling this attack on Americans.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The letter is dated Thursday, prior to the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s identification of the suspect behind Kirk\u2019s slaying<\/a>. Law enforcement officials have yet to declare a motive for the attack as of Friday afternoon. But according to the lawmakers calling for the select committee, \u201cThe patterns are undeniable: we are witnessing a sustained breakdown of law and order, fueled not by chance, but by anti-American ideology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe can no longer pretend to be bound together by shared ideals\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

The group says that Kirk was listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)\u2019s \u201cHate Map\u201d prior to his killing, and claims, \u201cWe have seen dangerous networks like Antifa organize, fund, and deploy sophisticated terror campaigns attacking law enforcement and destroying American cities.\u201d It blames \u201cradical organizations\u201d and figures like George Soros for \u201cfunding and putting in place District Attorneys and Judges to then coordinate releasing criminals to the streets,\u201d pointing to the recent fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska<\/a> by a man with a criminal record on a Charlotte light rail car. And it links \u201ccoordinated lawlessness and disorder\u201d to the \u201copening of our borders.\u201d Donald Trump suggested on Fox News on <\/em>Friday<\/a> that there could be a racketeering case against Soros, who he accused without presenting evidence of funding \u201cprofessional agitators\u201d like those who heckled him at a DC restaurant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The push follows a wave of statements<\/a> from Republican officials promising consequences for people who celebrated or made light of Kirk\u2019s death, though many of those statements are likely protected by the First Amendment. \u201cWe can no longer pretend to be bound together by shared ideals when a well-funded, vitriolic cadre of our fellow Americans and foreign interests are at war with the very values of faith in God, fidelity to our Constitution, and respect for the principles of liberty and Western Civilization that define us as Americans,\u201d the group wrote, \u201cincluding, notably, the free speech practiced and exemplified by Charlie Kirk.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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