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Less than a week after Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that the Department of Justice would be strengthened through a three-pronged strategy of appropriation, legislation, and supervision, and accused prosecutors of abusing the prosecution process to attack Trump personally. Johnson held a press conference on Capitol Hill on the 4th, criticizing the judiciary for being "too risky" and "the public is losing confidence in government agencies." Congress must try to reverse this phenomenon, so the House of Representatives is studying a variety of methods, including tightening the appropriation process, legislative process, and congressional oversight, and then actively exercising relevant powers. Johnson even accused Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney in charge of the hush money case, of being "rogue" and using the judiciary as a weapon to attack Trump. "Everyone knows that if the person (involved in the case) was not Trump, there would never be any charges in Manhattan." Steve Scalise, the second Republican in the House of Representatives, said at a press conference that Congress is investigating the issue of "weaponization" of the executive branch, and Tom Emmer also said that he has urged the Department of Justice to criminally refer the key witness in the hush money case, Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen. In fact, before Johnson and others officially announced, Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, took the lead last week and "required" Alvin Bragg and another prosecutor involved in the hush money case, Matthew Colangelo, to appear in court to testify for Trump's "unprecedented political prosecution." Jordan wrote to Tom Cole, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, on the 3rd, asking the committee to "reform" this year's appropriation process and prohibit the FBI from using public funds when adding new facilities at its headquarters; all prosecutors who prosecute Trump are not allowed to receive federal funding, including Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia; and cut funding for the office of Special Prosecutor Jack Smith of the Department of Justice. Over the past 18 months, the Republican Party has been dissatisfied with Trump's repeated criminal and civil lawsuits, and has been accusing the Biden administration of "weaponizing" the judiciary and threatening to use control of the House of Representatives to fight back, but various actions have never made progress until Trump was convicted last week, when this agenda became the focus again. Currently, Trump still has three criminal cases pending, namely the confidential documents case of the Department of Justice, the election dispute case, and the election dispute case in Georgia.