House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan suggested prohibiting federal funding for state prosecutors or state attorneys general involved in politicized prosecutions.

That idea is among several appropriation proposals for fiscal 2025 that Mr. Jordan, the Ohio Republican who also leads the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, included in a letter Monday to Rep. Tom Cole, Oklahoma Republican and Appropriations Committee chairman.

“We have conducted oversight of the troubling rise in politicized prosecutions and the use of abusive ‘lawfare’ tactics to target political opponents,” Mr. Jordan wrote, referencing his subcommittee’s investigations.

“We have seen rogue prosecutors abuse the rules of professional conduct and their duty to do justice in service of politicized ends.”

The letter recommends that the Appropriations Committee, with appropriate consultation from leadership, include language in next year’s appropriations to eliminate federal funding for state prosecutors or state attorneys general involved in lawfare and to zero out federal funding for federal prosecutors engaged in such abuse.

Additionally, the Judiciary Committee passed specific bills that its GOP lawmakers want the Appropriations Committee to consider including. These are: H.R. 2553, the No More Political Prosecutions Act, and H.R. 2595, the Forfeiture Funds Expenditure Transparency Act.

Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin said a House GOP push to defund prosecutors making cases against Mr. Trump would only complicate already difficult negotiations to fund the government.

“Any excuse will do if you want to stop the government,” the Illinois Democrat and senior appropriator told reporters Monday.

“We’ve fought this battle over and over again with these Republicans and the MAGA influence of the House of Representatives. It’s never going to be an easy task. This makes it a little more complicated,” he said.

Republicans have scrutinized the Justice Department over the four prosecutions former President Trump has faced in the last two years.

A Manhattan jury found Mr. Trump guilty on all 34 counts in his hush-money trial and made him the first former U.S. president convicted of a felony crime.

Mr. Jordan said in his letter to Mr. Cole that his committee and the select subcommittee have also received testimony about “egregious abuses, misallocation of federal law-enforcement resources, and misconduct within the leadership ranks of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).”

Both of his committees, he said, suggested that the Appropriations Committee include language to eliminate any funding for the FBI that is “not essential for the agency to execute its mission, including rescinding prior appropriations and prohibiting new taxpayer funding for any new FBI headquarters facility.”

Additionally, the panels recommend tying funding for the FBI to specific policy changes, “such as requiring the FBI to record interviews, that will promote accountability and transparency at the FBI.”

The fiscal 2024 funding package directed $200 million toward building a new FBI headquarters, a plan many House Republicans criticized and fought to prevent.

The General Services Administration last year selected Maryland over Virginia as the site of the new FBI headquarters following a battle between the states over where to build the new facility.

GOP lawmakers took issue over providing the bureau with a new headquarters, pointing to the FBI’s politically contentious probes towards conservatives.

Another recommended appropriation proposal from Mr. Jordan’s committees protects FBI whistleblowers against retaliation from their superiors.

“We ask that the Appropriations Committee include language that prohibits retaliation against FBI whistleblowers, including by prohibiting taxpayer dollars from being used to pay the salary of any Justice Department or FBI employee who is found to have retaliated against a whistleblower,” Mr. Jordan wrote.

“Additionally, we recommend language prohibiting the FBI from using the security clearance adjudication process in a retaliatory fashion against whistleblowers.”

Other appropriations proposals put forth by Mr. Jordan’s committees intend to prohibit the funding of Biden administration immigration policies and to stop the funding of government censorship.

• Lindsey McPherson can be reached at lmcpherson@washingtontimes.com.

• Kerry Picket can be reached at kpicket@washingtontimes.com.