House Republicans have angered Democrats by disbanding subcommittees aimed at protecting civil rights and the environment, Axios' Sophia Cai and Keldy Ortiz report.

• Why it matters: Democrats say Republicans are ignoring social and environmental crises in their zeal to target President Biden — though it's not unusual for a new majority to reshape the lineup of subcommittees.

Since taking over the House, Republicans have:

• Disbanded the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
• Disbanded the Oversight Committee's environmental panel.
• Replaced the House Financial Services Committee's Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee with one focused on digital assets and cryptocurrency.
• Renamed the Judiciary Committee's Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee the Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement Subcommittee.

A House Oversight spokesperson told Axios the moves are designed to “root out waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement” in government. 

• What they're saying: Democrats are particularly critical of Republicans' axing of the civil rights panel, which held hearings on police departments' use of force, sentencing and incarceration; the threat of domestic extremism; and the deportation of critically ill children.
• Democrats say the killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police underscored the need for such a panel to examine inequities in how police treat people of color.
• Video images of Nichols and others being abused by police should have been "enough" to keep the civil rights subcommittee alive, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who was on the panel, told Axios. 

Between the lines: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), former chair of the environmental subcommittee, said that by gutting the committee, "Republicans are refusing to even engage in a dialogue."

• The environmental panel, working with the full oversight committee, had done a two-year investigation into how oil and gas companies misled the public about climate change to cover the role their products play.

The other side: New House Financial Services chair Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), told The Carolina Journal that his committee took aim at its diversity and inclusion panel because Republicans believe that under Democrats, it “was sidetracked by far-left social policy pet projects.”

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Another way to understand the GOP committee changes: Just 20% of Republicans say protecting the environment should be a top priority for President Biden and Congress, vs. 67% of Democrats, Axios' Stef Kight reports.

• Race is also a big divide: Just 13% of Republicans think addressing racial issues should be a top priority, vs. 49% of Democrats.

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One intriguing note from today's House Oversight hearing on Twitter, via Axios' Ashley Gold.

• Former Twitter employee and whistleblower Anika Collier Navaroli said the Trump White House asked to take down a tweet by model Chrissy Teigen that was critical of the former president.

Why it matters: It seems to show the Trump administration doing exactly what Republicans are accusing the Biden administration of doing: interfering to persuade Big Tech companies to remove information viewed as politically damaging, Axios' Stef Kight notes.

The big picture: Distrust in the FBI has been a theme throughout several of the GOP's House investigations.

• Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told the Twitter employees they were "played" by the FBI, which Republicans have accused of directing Twitter to take down the 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
• The rebuttal from Twitter deputy counsel and former FBI lawyer Jim Baker: "I am aware of no unlawful collusion with, or direction from, any government agency or political campaign on how Twitter should have handled the Hunter Biden laptop situation."

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New Hampshire GOP Gov. Chris Sununu is testing donor interest for a 2024 presidential run, Axios' Josh Kraushaar reports.

• Sununu is forming a 501(c)(4) organization that allows for unlimited donations without disclosing donor identities, he first confirmed to NBC News.

Why it matters: A Sununu candidacy would scramble the impact of New Hampshire in the presidential primary. 

• One poll, conducted last month for the New Hampshire Journal, found that Sununu polled in third place in the state at 13% — enough to make a significant impact.
• But Sununu would need to raise big money to have an impact outside of his home state, where his profile is low.

Zoom in: Sununu has served as New Hampshire's governor since 2016, and won re-election comfortably in 2022 despite other Republicans badly underperforming down the ballot.

• He has been a vocal critic of former President Trump, calling him "f---ing crazy" in his standup routine at the exclusive Gridiron Dinner in 2022.
• He's also distanced himself from the cultural conservatism of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, casting himself as an economic libertarian in the mold of his "Live Free or Die" state motto.