Main Topic: Unease within the Republican Party about impeaching President Joe Biden
Key Points:
1. Some politically vulnerable and centrist Republicans do not believe there is enough evidence to impeach Biden.
2. Right-wing hard-liners are pressuring House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to impeach Biden.
3. McCarthy is considering launching a formal investigation focused on Hunter Biden's business dealings, but he needs nearly all Republicans to back impeachment, which may be difficult.
The House Oversight Committee has demanded documents from President Biden's time as vice president, including calendars and communications, as Republicans threaten to launch an impeachment inquiry into Biden's involvement in his family's foreign business dealings.
House conservatives are wary of Speaker Kevin McCarthy's talk of a potential impeachment inquiry of President Biden, believing he is using it as leverage in government spending negotiations.
The White House is preparing for a potential impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden as prosecutors seek a criminal indictment against his son, Hunter Biden, on a gun possession charge, further fueling Republican efforts to investigate the president and potentially leading to political trench warfare.
Republicans in the House, including Rep. French Hill, are cautioning against launching an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, emphasizing the need for thorough investigations before considering such a move.
Republicans are continuing their investigations into Hunter Biden, with two IRS employees testifying privately about the federal probe into President Biden's son, raising concerns of interference from the Biden White House or Justice Department.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has directed House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden, citing allegations of the president's involvement in his son's foreign business dealings as the basis for the investigation.
The White House is urging top US news executives to intensify their scrutiny of House Republicans who have launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite the lack of evidence, and is cautioning against false equivalency in reporting.
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld defends Republicans' announcement of an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, disregarding the lack of proof and arguing that the media previously accepted flimsier evidence during Trump's impeachment.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman suggests that Donald Trump is supporting and driving the House Republicans' impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, with Trump dropping the idea and Republicans taking it up as a suggestion.
Former President Trump has been privately discussing the impeachment inquiry into President Biden with House Republicans and strategizing on how to make it "long and excruciatingly painful" for Biden.
House Republicans are moving to impeach Joe Biden as congressional investigators focus on a breakfast meeting he hosted in 2015 for his son Hunter Biden and two business partners, where conversation revolved around lobbying Biden to support his friend Karim Massimov to be Secretary-General of the United Nations.
House committee chairmen briefed their Republican colleagues on the impeachment inquiry into President Biden's alleged involvement in his family's foreign business dealings, calling for transparency and the release of bank records.
Former President Donald Trump's comments suggesting that the impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden was in retaliation and could lead to future indictments caught some Republicans off guard and raised concerns about the party's prospects in next year's election.
Republicans launched an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden because they want to shut down the government, with hard-right Republicans demanding cuts to spending and increases in immigration enforcement.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee will hold its first hearing on the impeachment inquiry into President Biden on Sept. 28, focusing on constitutional and legal questions surrounding his alleged involvement in corruption and abuse of public office, while also planning to subpoena the bank records of his son, Hunter Biden.
President Joe Biden's allies are preparing for a potential impeachment by House Republicans and aiming to use it against GOP candidates in the 2024 elections, painting the impeachment effort as a baseless political stunt and highlighting the disarray within the Republican Party.
House Republicans are pushing to impeach President Biden on bribery charges without needing to prove that he received money, arguing that the crime can be established through other means such as seeking or agreeing to accept anything of value to be influenced, according to a senior House Republican aide with knowledge of the impeachment inquiry.
House Republicans released more than 700 pages of IRS whistleblower documents that they claim demonstrate Hunter Biden's use of his father's political position in a global influence-peddling scheme, fueling the House GOP impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden centered on his son's foreign business dealings.
House Oversight Chair James Comer's evidence-free impeachment inquiry against President Biden is a partisan distraction and a childish political stunt, conveniently timed before a government shutdown, while there is no credible evidence linking Biden to any wrongdoing.
The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives held its first impeachment inquiry hearing against President Joe Biden, but no new information regarding his financial ties to his son Hunter Biden is expected to be revealed.
The House Oversight Committee's first hearing in the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden featured several false and misleading claims from Republican members, including claims about shell companies and payments to the Bidens, Hunter Biden's qualification to sit on the board of Burisma, the Justice Department's handling of a search warrant related to Hunter Biden, wire transfers to Hunter Biden from China, allegations of bribery involving Joe Biden and Burisma, Hunter Biden's failure to pay taxes, and a purported text message between James and Hunter Biden.
House Republicans have subpoenaed the bank records of Hunter and James Biden as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, escalating their investigation into the Biden family's business dealings.
House Republicans are in the process of selecting a new speaker, who will be faced with the urgent tasks of keeping the government funded, passing important bills related to Israel, Ukraine, and agriculture, and reauthorizing a key surveillance act before it expires.
As House Republicans elect a new speaker, their push for an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden faces challenges and divisions within the party, hindering progress and slowing down the legislative agenda.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer suggests he's tired of holding impeachment hearings for President Joe Biden due to the limited time allotted to each member and the difficulty in keeping everyone focused on the task at hand, hinting that a Jan. 6-style hearing would be more effective.
House Republicans are demanding proof that President Joe Biden loaned his brother money five years ago, as they try to find evidence of corruption and advance their impeachment inquiry.
