Washington – House Republicans have talked a lot about impeaching President Joe Biden Because of what they claim is his improper involvement in his family’s business dealings.
But with a long to-do list in store for when lawmakers return to Washington after the August recess, it’s all for now.
However, former President Donald Trump is pressing Republican lawmakers to put an end to their words The impeachment process against Biden begins Or face electoral consequences.
“Any Republican who does not act on Democratic fraud should withdraw immediately,” Trump told supporters at a campaign rally on Saturday in Erie, Pennsylvania. “We have a lot of good, strong Republicans. People will run against them and people will win.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has repeatedly rejected this idea He faces pressure from the former president to go after Biden, Call the impeachment inquiry into the appropriate course of action.
“If (the Biden administration) doesn’t provide the information we need, we’re going to go to an impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy said at a news conference last week, referring to House Republicans’ investigation into whether Biden profited from Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings. .
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McCarthy and other Republican lawmakers find themselves in political limbo over Trump’s comments. House Republicans have just three weeks when they return to Washington in September To approve spending bills that must be passedAnd achieving accountability could take up valuable time needed to avoid a government shutdown.
There is, too Many House Republicans represent counties that Biden won in the 2020 presidential election. Moving forward with the impeachment inquiry could put these vulnerable Republican lawmakers in a politically charged position ahead of the 2024 election, something House GOP leaders want to avoid considering their five-seat majority.
Rep. Nancy Mays, R-Sr., warned that impeachment could force vulnerable members to “go the right way”.
“Every time we walk the plank, we put the moderate members, the members who win Biden districts, we put those seats at risk for 2024. We put the majority at risk,” Mays said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Trump urges GOP lawmakers to fight for him
Trump’s attempts to pressure Republicans in the House of Representatives to impeach Biden come at a time when he is facing many legal problems, Including a potential indictment for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
In the face of these legal problems, Trump has accused Biden and the Justice Department of targeting him because he is the current frontrunner 2024 Republican Primary Election. As a result, Trump has implored Republican lawmakers to fight back on his behalf.
“They’re impeaching me and impeaching me,” Trump said at a rally in Erie. “And Republicans don’t fight the way…they’re supposed to fight.”
GOP leaders are also facing pressure from their right-hand side in the convention, with members of the The Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives is very conservative calling for the president’s impeachment.
“I don’t know how anyone, any objectively reasonable person could come to the conclusion that this looks like he deserves impeachment,” Rep. Bob Goode, R-Va., a member of the Freedom Caucus, said last week, baseless claims that Biden was involved as vice president in his son’s business dealings.
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House Republicans walk a fine line between investigations and impeachment
Caught between the ex-president’s warnings and the upcoming election in 2024, GOP lawmakers are grappling between continuing to investigate Biden or moving quickly to impeach the president.
“We’re working through the process, our constitutional duty to oversee the executive branch,” Rep. Kevin Hearn, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, told reporters last week.
Hearn said Republicans are carefully investigating whether the president had any connections with him Hunter Biden business dealings They said Democrats “jumped to conclusions” when they impeached Trump.
The Speaker of the House said there could be an impeachment investigation. This is not an impeachment. Representative Mike Lawler, RNY, who represents a district that Biden won in 2020, said:
“It’s just an ability to get more information,” House Majority Leader Steve Scales said at a news conference last week, saying the investigation “isn’t in and of itself an impeachment.”
This article originally appeared in the USA TODAY: Donald Trump threatens the House GOP to impeach Joe Biden: ‘Get out’
