Speaker Mike Johnson rejected calls from Republican hard-liners to defund special counsel Jack Smith during an interview with Politico which was broadcast on Thursday.House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, a committed Donald Trump supporter, has made a number of bids to end funding to Smith, a special counsel for the Department of Justice, over the past year. However in the interview, Johnson claimed you can't 'wave a wand and just eliminate the special counsel.
' Any such move would be extremely unlikely to be passed into law as it could be blocked by the Democratic controlled Senate or President Biden.Newsweek approached Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Department of Justice press office by email and online media enquiry form respectively, at around 6 a.m. ET on Friday. This article will be updated if either decide to comment.
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