House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given the green light to GOP-run House Committees to proceed with an impeachment inquiry against President Biden; the White House reacted on X shortly after McCarthy’s announcement.
“House Republicans have been investigating the President for 9 months, and they’ve turned up no evidence of wrongdoing,” Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“His own GOP members have said so. He vowed to hold a vote to open impeachment, now he flip flopped because he doesn’t have support,” Sams said, referring to McCarthy. “Extreme politics at its worst.”
From The Hill:
McCarthy said that the probe into Biden — based on the House GOP’s investigations of his family’s foreign business dealings and the prosecution of his son Hunter Biden — will be led by House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).
Additionally, Comer will work in coordination with Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.), who have also been investigating the Biden family.
Sams also shared an article Tuesday from The Hill from earlier this month with the headline “McCarthy says he won’t open impeachment inquiry without House vote.”
“Eleven days ago, Speaker McCarthy committed that he wouldn’t open an impeachment inquiry without a House vote,” Sams said on social media.
This story is developing…
https://x.com/thehill/status/1701633447138127909?s=20