The White House is paying close attention to the possibility of an impeachment inquiry that would implicate the president emerging from the House, though Democrats’ ongoing control of the Senate means it’s nearly unfathomable that any impeachment would result in a removal from office.
CNN had a statement from Ian Sams, a spokesperson on the Biden team who specifically covers oversight and investigations. He criticized Republicans for focusing on these political maneuvers rather than more tangible issues that could result in acute improvements to the lives of Americans if addressed. “House Republicans should listen to the American people who want them to work with the President to focus on real issues like continuing to bring down inflation and creating jobs instead of relentlessly pursuing partisan stunts that prioritize their own extreme political agenda over improving Americans’ daily lives,” Sams said.
It’s unclear that Republicans would be able to move forward with an impeachment inquiry and case anyway, as some of their party’s members in the House who are known as more moderate are expressing hesitation, and the GOP majority that is currently in place in that legislative chamber is slim. Even Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who remains the leader of Senate Republicans and would likely help dictate any response from the chamber’s GOP members to an impeachment approved by the House, doesn’t sound thrilled at the prospect, though leading GOP Senators have already been keeping their political distance from the more Trump-aligned politics seen elsewhere.
Republicans who’ve been pushing the idea of an impeachment of the president have raised complaints against him ranging from alleged involvement in supposedly corrupt business dealings of his son to contentions he’s mishandled the southern border, though some of their claims about the border have been outright false, while many of the circulating allegations around the business dealings are similarly unsubstantiated. During recent Congressional testimony, Devon Archer, an ex-business partner of Hunter Biden, produced no evidence of Biden involving himself specifically in Hunter’s business dealings, though he was in proximity.
