House Republicans say the US Capitol is no safer than it was a year ago, when a mob of angry supporters of former President Donald Trump rioted over the result of the 2020 election.
The top Republican on the Committee on House Administration slammed House Democrats for focusing on their investigation into the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, instead of implementing proposed security reforms.
Representative Rodney Davis penned a memo to GOP members Monday titled, One Year Later, Little Has Changed,’ according to Fox News.
‘In the coming days you are going to hearing a lot of noise and narratives about what transpired at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and what the cause of those things may or may not be,’ the Illinois Republican wrote.
‘The most important question to answer from that day remains, why was the Capitol so unprepared?’
Davis wrote that there are ‘important facts that cannot be ignored about what occurred before, during, and after that day.’
He also slammed the Democrats involved with the investigation into January 6, saying they are ‘no closer to finding out what led to the catastrophic security failure,’ and instead are hellbent to ‘attack President Trump and punish anyone associated with him.’
Davis wrote that the select committee has ‘wasted taxpayer dollars by spending months going after their political rivals and holding them in criminal contempt when they refuse to meet every spurious demand of the committee.’
The committee has subpoenaed over 50 people.
They have also held former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and adviser Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for failing to fully comply with subpoenas as part of their investigation.
According to Davis, in the days following the attack, Republicans ‘issued preservation and production orders’ relating to the Capitol’s security preparedness, and those recommendations were not followed.
Davis said the Capitol Police Inspector General issued 104 recommendations for changes the department should implement post-January 6.’
‘Most have not been implemented. Nothing has changed to make the Capitol campus safer from future attacks. Instead, Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats have focused their time and attention on going after former President Trump and those associated with him – even if those associates are their own colleagues,’ Davis wrote.
The Republican then called the attack an ‘avoidable security failure that we can never allow to happen again.’
Nearly a year after the Capitol attack, more than 130 Capitol Police officers have left the department. The Capitol Police, at this point, is nearly 400 officers short of its authorized level.
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