White House mocks Republicans for floating Biden impeachment inquiry
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White House mocks Republicans for floating Biden impeachment inquiry
White House mocks Republicans for floating Biden impeachment inquiry
‘It’ll work wonders!’ The White House mocked House Republicans for threatening impeachment inquiries targeting President Joe Biden and members of his Cabinet, characterizing such talk as a desperate response to an improving economy under Biden’s watch.
The rebuttal signals an aggressive, head-on approach from the White House to get in front of potential impeachment proceedings that would collide with the 2024 presidential campaign season.
“Now House Republicans are channeling their frustrated energy into a measured and purposeful urge to impeach someone somewhere for something,” White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a memo, in which he provided the ellipses for emphasis.
The House speaker said an impeachment inquiry would give Congress “The strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge and information needed” to take further action against President Biden.
In a statement on the White House memo that fired back at House Republicans, Chad Gilmartin, deputy spokesman for McCarthy, told USA TODAY, “Every day our committees uncover new evidence concerning Biden Inc. They will continue to follow the facts – even as the White House changes their story while refusing to answer important questions.” House Republicans have not clearly identified criminal wrongdoing from Biden that would be the basis of an impeachment inquiry but have recently pointed to evidence cited by Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the Oversight Committee, that Hunter Biden put his then-vice president father on the phone with foreign business associates.
House Republicans have talked about targeting Attorney General Merrick Garland with impeachment as well.
“Are you trying to tell me Biden’s conduct isn’t as significant at that? It’s way more significant. So they are absolutely within their rights to do that.” In the White House memo, Bates accused Republicans who for months blasted Biden over inflation that was previously rising of failing to find a coherent message to combat “Bidenomics,” the White House’s newly branded name for the president’s economic agenda.
“The bottom line is this. The subtitle to everything that makes up congressional Republicans’ disjointed message is this: ‘Bidenomics is working.'” Before former President Donald Trump’s two impeachments, only two presidents had ever been impeached by the House: Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998.
Source: USA TODAY
