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.
Republicans in competitive districts face a difficult decision on whether to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden and the possibility of a government shutdown, putting them at risk of blowback from their party or their voters.
House Democrats have differing views on how to best address GOP allegations regarding Hunter Biden, with some wanting a more forceful response and others believing it is a distraction from former President Donald Trump's criminal charges; however, Democrats are confident they can defend President Joe Biden against a potential impeachment inquiry.
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.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden based on allegations of abuse of power, obstruction, and corruption, despite the lack of direct evidence that the president financially benefitted from his son's business dealings.
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.
House Republicans must step up and use their power to hold Democrats accountable and stop their corrupt lawfare campaign aimed at keeping Donald Trump out of the White House in the 2024 election by launching impeachment inquiries into Joe Biden and Merrick Garland.
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.
President Joe Biden dismissed the Republican-led impeachment inquiry as an attempt to shut down the government and emphasized his focus on daily tasks and issues affecting the American people.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended President Biden and dismissed the impeachment inquiry, claiming that there is no evidence incriminating him in his son's foreign business dealings, leading to a heated exchange with reporters during the press briefing.
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.
Hunter Biden has been indicted and House Republicans have initiated an impeachment inquiry against President Biden, exposing the media's bias and their inability to protect the president from scandal.
House Republicans are facing warnings from history as they push for yet another impeachment process, this time targeting President Biden, despite the fact that previous attempts have failed to remove a president from office.
House Republicans will hold their first public hearing in the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, focusing on constitutional and legal questions surrounding the president's involvement in corruption and abuse of public office, including his son Hunter Biden's overseas business interests and allegations of receiving bribes from Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
The White House accuses House Republicans of using the impeachment probe as a stunt to evade accountability over a possible government shutdown, arguing that Republicans are walking away from a budget agreement and diverting attention from efforts to slash spending.
Summary: Republicans in Congress are set to hold an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden's family business dealings, while also risking a government shutdown, demonstrating how both impeachment and shutdowns have become political weapons wielded with increasing frequency, to the detriment of US democracy.
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll indicates that most Americans do not believe that President Biden should be impeached, but the GOP's push for impeachment may be raising suspicions of corruption in preparation for the 2024 presidential election.
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.
Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell accuses the GOP-led impeachment inquiry into President Biden of being a continuation of the January 6 insurrection and claims that Republicans have never accepted Biden as a legitimate president.
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 are holding their first hearing as part of an inquiry into whether to impeach President Biden, despite lacking evidence that he profited from his son's work in Ukraine, with the committee set to hear from legal experts and present evidence of the Bidens' alleged wrongdoing.
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.
House Republicans face backlash as they pursue an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on the eve of a potential government shutdown, with voters split on the issue and expressing concerns about the impact on programs and government employees, according to polls and interviews with voters.
Legal experts are divided on whether the accusations against President Biden warrant an impeachment, but all agree that further investigation is needed.
