California Republican and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy will later this week endorse a GOP-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden seeking to access bank records and other documents from the president and his son Hunter Biden. McCarthy intends to tell lawmakers this week that it’s a “logical next step” of the many probes into the President’s son that have been going on for months.
Punchbowl News first reported the update.
McCarthy has long signaled that the House could take up an impeachment inquiry, which would provide additional legal power to the House’s investigations into the Biden family. The GOP-led investigations have found zero evidence of wrongdoing by the president, or connections between the president and Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings in Ukraine.
It is not clear if the GOP caucus even has the votes to make the inquiry a reality. Some politically vulnerable and moderate Republicans have expressed concerns about launching a formal impeachment inquiry without any rock-solid evidence.
McCarthy’s plan seems to be a move to satisfy the most far-right members of his conference, in the hopes that giving them the impeachment inquiry could give him some of their goodwill during negotiations to keep the government open.
