{"id":1680379,"date":"2022-10-09T09:07:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T13:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680379"},"modified":"2022-10-09T09:09:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T13:09:51","slug":"biden-admin-pays-for-growing-army-of-staff-to-deflect-hunter-biden-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-pays-for-growing-army-of-staff-to-deflect-hunter-biden-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Pays for Growing Army of Staff to Deflect Hunter Biden Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-pays-for-growing-army-of-staff-to-deflect-hunter-biden-probe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680379&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The White House is gearing up for a growing army of staff to fend off potential Republican-led probes on everything from Hunter Biden to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan \u2014 and taxpayers are footing the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Battening down the hatches should the GOP regain control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, the White House is shelling out $265,000 a year in salary for staff whose primary portfolio will be to run comms and defense for the administration from an approaching blizzard of subpoenas.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the White House poached Richard A. Sauber, the top attorney for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to serve as a \u201cdeputy counsel to the president\u201d tasked with handling House oversight probes. Ian Sams, a veteran of Vice President Harris\u2019 failed 2020 presidential campaign, was hired to run official comms for the team. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/July-1-2022-Report-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House records show<\/a> the two men will take home $155,000 and $110,000 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>And the team is only expected to grow, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/16\/afghanistan-hunter-biden-gop-readies-its-investigations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Washington Post reported<\/a> \u2014\u00a0indicating that its staffing and operational expenditures will balloon further. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hunter-biden-laptop-43.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Republicans have vowed to investigate Hunter Biden\u2019s foreign business deals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/kamala-harris-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kamala-harris-01.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during her meeting with Nigeria&#039;s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in Harris&#039; ceremonial office on the White House complex in Washington, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-24175267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kamala-harris-01-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kamala-harris-01-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kamala-harris-01-2.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The White House is reportedly hiring members from Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 2020 presidential campaign team.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Susan Walsh<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAmericans deserve transparency from President Biden about his family\u2019s suspicious business dealings. But instead of providing transparency, the White House is hiring staff at the American taxpayers\u2019 expense to stonewall congressional oversight and accountability.\u201d said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is on track to chair the House Oversight Committee next year if Republicans retake the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear: no amount of Biden White House staff or stonewalling will stop Republicans\u2019 quest for transparency and accountability on behalf of the American people,\u201d he added.  <\/p>\n<p>House Republicans have <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/12\/house-gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-says-putin-evil-but-biden-weak\/\">vowed to investigate everything<\/a> from the origins of coronavirus, to the botched withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. The party\u2019s marquee probe will focus on Hunter Biden and what connections his father, President Biden, had to his shady overseas business dealings.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hunter-biden-01-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/hunter-biden-01-2.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, leaves after the award ceremony of the Presidential Medals of Freedom to seventeen recipients in the East Room at the White House in Washington on July 7, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-24175263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/hunter-biden-01-2-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/hunter-biden-01-2-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/hunter-biden-01-2-2.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Republicans argue there is sufficient evidence to indict Hunter Biden.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Gripas Yuri\/Abaca\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/james-comer-getty-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/james-comer-getty-01.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.,\" class=\"wp-image-24175266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/james-comer-getty-01-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/james-comer-getty-01-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/james-comer-getty-01-2.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Rep. James Comer accused the White House of \u201cstonewalling\u201d on the \u201cAmerican taxpayers\u2019 expense.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Biden has consistently denied any such connections, even as a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/23\/joe-biden-met-with-hunter-biden-business-partner-at-the-white-house\/\">growing body of evidence<\/a> has accumulated to indicate that is not the case.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is gearing up for a growing army of staff to fend off potential Republican-led probes on everything from Hunter Biden to the U.S. withdrawal from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}