GOP Leader McCarthy Joins Call for Biden Impeachment Inquiry Vote
There may not be enough support to initiate a formal investigation, but Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) would approve an impeachment inquiry into President Biden this week, a source close to him told The Hill.
This will lay the stage for a formal vote in the house. McCarthy will inform Republican lawmakers that House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) have uncovered sufficient evidence to support the need for a full impeachment investigation, the source added.
This week, on Wednesday and Thursday, the House GOP conference is scheduled to meet behind closed doors twice. Comer and Jordan are expected to discuss their inquiries at the meeting on Thursday.
The source said it is uncertain which meeting McCarthy will publicly endorse an investigation. However it’s still uncertain if he has enough support, McCarthy earlier this month stated that he will only launch an impeachment investigation into Biden if the House formally decides to.
Reps. Don Bacon (R) of Nebraska and Mike Lawler (R) of New York, who are from districts that Biden won in 2020, just declared that they are not prepared to open an impeachment investigation. The conservative House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) claimed this past weekend that there is “not a strong enough connection” between the data committees have unearthed regarding Hunter Biden and the president.
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GOP’s Move to Formal Investigation
For their part, conservatives applauded McCarthy’s decision to support an impeachment investigation. The congressman declared that until the House launched an impeachment investigation into Biden, she would not vote to fund the government.
A formal probe is being moved forward as Congress works to finance the government before September 30 or face a shutdown.
Moving to a formal investigation is “red meat” for the Republican base, according to the White House, which has adamantly opposed GOP attempts to start an impeachment inquiry. When Joe Biden was vice president, the House Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means committees have been looking into the commercial practices of the Biden family.
Throughout this Congress, the panels have presented a variety of information, including bank transactions, testimony from informants who claim that the Department of Justice dragged its feet in looking into Hunter Biden’s tax crimes, and testimony from Devon Archer, a former associate of Hunter Biden who claimed that Hunter put his father on speakerphone during meetings with foreign business associates.
Archer claimed that those exchanges were brief and polite.
There is no proof that Biden gained any financial gain from his family’s business ventures directly. Yet according to a recent Oversight GOP staff letter, lawmakers can prove corruption without providing evidence of direct payments to the president.
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Source: Newsbreak
