House GOP Should Step up Action to ‘Weed out Corruption’ in Wake of FBI Trump Raid, Says Rep. Loudermilk

The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home is but another instance of government overreach, according to Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.).

The congressman said the Aug. 8 incident will galvanize Republicans in the House to take a tougher approach to investigate misconduct across the entire bureaucracy in the event the GOP flips the chamber later this year.

“This is our government run amok and without constraints, and we have to rein it in,” Loudermilk told The Epoch Times.

“This seems like it’s a huge overreach,” he said.

“It rings of weaponization for political purposes of law enforcement, which also brings in huge concerns that the Democrats are about to pass a bill that increases the IRS by 87,000 agents. Are they going to be weaponized to this level as well?”

The congressman was referring to a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act that gives the Internal Revenue Service $45.6 billion in funding for tax enforcement activities, which is allegedly enough to hire up to 87,000 new agents. The bill passed both the Senate and the House and is now headed to President Joe Biden’s desk for signing.

“This is the type of thing that our founders and the framers of our Constitution were afraid that would happen in government if it wasn’t constrained,” Loudermilk said.

“We have to get back to the Constitution. And more importantly, Congress needs to more effectively do its job of overseeing and reining in a runaway executive branch.”

The search warrant was unsealed on Aug. 12, revealing that the raid was conducted as part of an investigation into whether the former president violated three U.S. laws relating to the handling and destroying of governmental records, defense information, and records on federal investigations.

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Aug. 11 confirmed that he personally approved

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