The subpoenas come nearly two weeks after one of the panel’s subcommittees voted to compel the Justice Department to release the files, just before the House left for its summer recess. House Speaker Mike Johnson publicly resisted the effort, arguing the Administration needs “room to act” before Congress intervenes.

Karrin Taylor Robson commented for the first time, and Rep. Andy Biggs explained his new opposition to releasing files that are a headache for Trump.

Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday in a desperate bid to block an aggressively partisan redrawing of the state’s congressional map orchestrated by Republicans with the support of President Donald Trump.

Gov. Greg Abbott filed his lawsuit as other top Republicans raised the prospect of intensifying law enforcement actions against Democrats.