Explainer | What’s next in the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry?
- Republicans have accused Joe Biden of profiting while he served as vice-president from his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business ventures
- An impeachment inquiry sets the stage for months of divisive hearings in a long-shot effort to remove the Democratic president
In a statement Tuesday, McCarthy said the House investigations into the Biden family this year have uncovered a “culture of corruption” that demands deeper review.
“These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy said he will direct the chairmen of the House Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means committees to lead the impeachment inquiry. The panels have been working together for months on various probes related to the Biden family and have yet to directly connect the president to any of it.
The White House called the effort “extreme politics at its worst”.
“House Republicans have been investigating the President for 9 months, and they’ve turned up no evidence of wrongdoing,” Ian Sams, a White House spokesperson said in a statement. “His own Republican members have said so.”