The GOP plan for leading the new Congress

 Just the News:

The congressman who would lead the most powerful investigative committee in the House if Republicans win the midterms is sending an unmistakable advance warning to the permanent federal bureaucracy: It's time to "get rid of some of these useless bureaucrats who are just a drain on the American taxpayer."

Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the ranking Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, told Just the News on Thursday evening his top three investigative priorities include Biden family corruption, the insecure southern border and the origins and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Comer said the latter category will include a deep review of the practices of the National Institutes of Health, including the large salaries, significant autonomy and royalties for taxpayer-funded drugs and vaccines they have collected over the last two decades.

"We're seriously concerned about not just the origination of COVID, but also a lot of the COVID spending," Comer said during a wide-ranging interview on the "Just the News, No Noise" television show. "We're concerned about the royalties that high ranking government officials were getting for vaccine sales. We're concerned about the slush fund at the NIH."

Comer's comments came after reports indicated the soon-retiring Dr. Anthony Fauci, the NIH's quarterback for the pandemic, was collecting the largest salary in the federal government at $434,000 a year, and will receive a lifetime pension exceeding $350,000 annually.

In addition, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) revealed this summer that 27,000 royalty payments totaling more than $193 million for drug, vaccine and other medical technologies were collected by 18,000 NIH employees.

Comer said federal bureaucrats have been given too much autonomy to act as they want without regard to the will of Congress or federal law, a dynamic he hopes to change using the power of the purse if the GOP wins control of the House in Tuesday's midterm elections.

"One of the things that just drives me crazy is the lack of respect by these government bureaucrats that continue to do whatever they want, whenever they want," Comer said. "And they spend whatever they want. The Congress orders these agencies to have certain budgets, they put, you know, line items in there, different types of spending. But then these bureaucrats turn around and they do what they want."

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These investigations are one reason why the Democrats need to be defeated this year.   

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