The move to enact the plan comes just one day after Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I., testified before Congress that the bureau would not be targeted for political reasons.

Democrats attack Trump’s nominee for FBI director over Jan. 6 and Trump’s classified document case, among other things.

Patel’s mother and father are Indian Gujarati immigrants who moved to Canada in the 1970s from Uganda, East Africa, after ...