Trump 2nd term live updates: Trump slams Biden at World Economic Forum

Despite Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 rioters, House Republicans are announcing that they're creating a new select subcommittee to continue Rep. Barry Loudermilk's efforts to investigate the investigators, as some pundits have put it -- to "bring all the facts to the American people."

The work will fall under the jurisdiction of the House Judiciary Committee, with Loudermilk overseeing the select subcommittee.

Lawmakers who received a preemptive pardon from President Joe Biden -- Sen. Adam Schiff, Reps. Jamie Raskin, Bennie Thompson and Zoe Lofgren, former Rep. Liz Cheney and other members of the Jan. 6 select committee -- are sure to become a central focus of the GOP's effort to probe "all events leading up to and after January 6."

Earlier Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson strongly criticized Biden's pardons, calling them "breathtaking" and "shocking."

"It is disgusting to us. It probably proves the point, the suspicion that, you know, they call it the Biden crime family, if they weren't the crime family, why do they need pardons?" Johnson said, adding that they will be "looking at it as well."

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department will not enforce immigration violations, the department said in a statement on Tuesday.

"It is the policy of this department to recognize the dignity of all persons, regardless of their national origin or immigration status," LVMPD said in a statement posted to X. "Officers will not stop and question, detain, arrest, or place an immigration hold on any individuals on the grounds they are an undocumented immigrant."

LVMPD said the department will share criminal intelligence regarding transnational organized crime and international terrorism and said it will defer citizens to report undocumented immigrants to ICE.

"LVMPD will not delay the release of an inmate for ICE," the police department added."However, LVMPD will honor federal judicial warrants for arrest from ICE. If ICE is not present at the time of the inmate's release, and there is no judicial warrant (the Detention Services Division) will notify ICE at the time of both booking and release."

- ABC News' Laura Romero

According to U.S. officials, 1,000 to 1,500 additional troops are expected to be sent to the southern border, in addition to the roughly 1,500 currently there.

These additional forces will be operating under the U.S. Northern Command.

Troops have been on the border for years, and though there are only about 1,500 National Guard and reservists there now, that mission had been authorized to have up to 2,500 personnel. They serve in a support role to Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol along the border and do not carry out law enforcement duties.

-ABC News' Matt Seyler

The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde on Wednesday defended her sermon at a traditional inaugural prayer service on Tuesday directly calling on President Trump to show "mercy" toward immigrants and trans people.

Speaking on ABC's "The View," she emphasized she was seeking to create "unity" and to "counter the narrative that is so divisive and polarizing."

"I wanted to emphasize respecting the honor and dignity of every human being, basic honesty and humility and then I also realized that unity requires a certain degree of mercy -- mercy and compassion and understanding," she said, after Trump demanded she apologize.

"I was trying to speak a truth that I felt needed to be said, but to do it as respectful and kind a way as I could," she added. "And also to bring other voices into the conversation ... voices that had not been heard in the public space for some time."

When asked if she had an opportunity to share her thoughts one-on-one with the president, Budde said she had not been invited but would welcome the opportunity.

"I can assure him and everyone listening that I would be as respectful as I would with any person, and certainly of his office for which I have a great deal of respect, but ... the invitation would have to come from him," she said.