The White House is pushing for an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
The Biden administration released a 14-page document defending the president; It described the investigation as a stunt full of “patently false” claims.
On Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy directed the House to launch an investigation to review the president’s interactions with his son Hunter and his business dealings.
McCarthy took to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday morning to help ease some concerns from some Republican Party members, saying it was not a political stunt.
“The American people deserve to know that public office is not for sale – and the federal government is not being used to cover up the actions of a politically connected family,” McCarthy wrote on X, “There are serious and credible allegations of President Biden’s conduct – none of which would be known if it were not for the ongoing House investigation. We will continue to fight for the transparency and accountability that the American people demand and deserve.”
The White House responded to these claims, saying that the speaker should “get his facts straight.”
“Well, I think it’s important that the speaker get his facts straight. I think he’s saying a lot of things in these allegations that are untrue, and the truth is that after a nine-month investigation of the President Subsequently, House Republicans have not responded to the evidence of wrongdoing because there is no evidence of wrongdoing,” White House Counsel Office spokesman Ian Sams told Scripps News. “The President did nothing wrong and this The attacks are baseless and false, and I think he should be held accountable for what he’s saying.”
Sams, who sent the 14-page memo, said McCarthy and congressional Republicans received thousands of pages of bank records and Treasury Department financial reports, but not a single one of those records showed any connection to President Biden.
“The chairman of the House Oversight Committee needs to explain what he’s talking about when he says there’s some kind of obstruction here, because he certainly doesn’t say that on TV,” Sams told Scripps News. Have been.” “This is extreme politics at its finest. Speaker McCarthy initiated impeachment without any evidence simply because Marjorie Taylor Greene asked him to do so.”
The President’s investigation is taking place at a time when the House is also preparing for a fight over funding as the government is set to shut down on September 30 after the current funds are exhausted.
Getting Republican approval for federal spending bills is critical to preventing a government shutdown, but some Republicans want McCarthy to cut spending even more than he and President Biden agreed to in a budget agreement earlier this year.
However, Sams says that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene told Speaker McCarthy that if she did not get an impeachment inquiry, “she would shut down the government,” and so this may have been the main reason why McCarthy “put it on her.” Baselessly impeached “inquiry for attempting to prevent government shutdown.”
But McCarthy reaffirmed that the inquiry is only to clarify the situation and get answers.
“There are a lot of allegations out there that you want answers to,” McCarthy told reporters. “An impeachment inquiry only enables Congress, Republicans and Democrats, to get questions answered.”