EXCLUSIVE: Top Democrats are standing up a pair of outside groups—the Congressional Integrity Project and Facts First USA—and building them for the sole purpose of running aggressive interference for Biden on the slew of GOP probes from Capitol Hill.
—was largely left to a few Democratic lawmakers and a handful of White House staffers.
The group’s goal is not only to discredit the GOP investigations but the members running them. It’s already put out a lengthy dossier, for instance, attacking the new members of the House Oversight Committee. “If they want to play politics with it, we’re perfectly happy to extract a political price,” said Brad Woodhouse, a veteran Democratic operative on CIP’s board.
With a $15 million budget in mind, their goal is to “be in every news cycle, every story where Republicans are making allegations, throwing mud,” Brock said. That may include any story involving the president’s son, Hunter. In fact, Brock has already had a sit-down meeting with the younger Biden. There’s a strategic reason why these outside organizations could be far more valuable than White House and House Democrats simply hiring more staffers and throwing them at GOP investigations, Schultz said.
Many Democrats feel that when it comes to countering a vocal GOP majority and the right-wing media ecosystem that backs them up, the more groups that are involved, the merrier. Both groups are immersing themselves in compiling as much potentially damaging information as possible about GOP investigators. The process of gathering “opposition research” is usually left for campaign season, when party operatives try to land bombshell stories to sink their rivals’ electoral chances. Many Republican lawmakers targeted by these groups, who represent safe seats, likely have not experienced the other side of that practice.
As GOP probes ramp up, however, the two group’s portfolios could diverge. CIP envisions itself playing a more traditional political role as the 2024 elections near: Woodhouse outlined plans for the group to hire local staffers working in as many as two dozen swing House districts currently held by Republicans. The idea, he said, is to “squeeze” these typically more moderate lawmakers by pressuring them over potentially more polarizing steps, like focusing on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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