Congressional Republicans vowed payback for the Justice Department after federal law enforcement agents searched former President Donald Trump s home in Florida.

The Justice Department has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said in a statement .

McCarthy didnt mention Trump, but the statement was a clear reference to news that the FBI had searched Trumps home at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach. The investigation reportedly pertains to records Trump brought to his private residence from the White House, though the Justice Department has not issued a statement or confirmed any details.

Trump himself complained about his home being under siege by a large group of FBI agents.

Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before, he said in a statement.

Despite the lack of information about the search, McCarthy and other Republicans suggested it was fundamentally improper to investigate possible wrongdoing by the former president in other words, that Trump should be above the law.

McCarthy said that if Republicans win control of the House in Novembers midterm elections, they will task committees with investigating the Justice Departments investigation of Trump.

When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned, McCarthy said.

To Attorney General Merrick Garland, McCarthy said, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.

The National Archives said earlier this year that it had obtained 15 boxes of presidential records that Trump had failed to turn over at the end of his term, contrary to the Presidential Records Act, which states that a presidents papers belong to the public. The archives said it was still looking for additional records and that some of the documents Trump did turn over had been torn up.