{"id":2029395,"date":"2023-09-12T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-mccarthy-announces-biden-impeachment-inquiry-citing-serious-and-credible-allegations\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:05:51","slug":"breaking-mccarthy-announces-biden-impeachment-inquiry-citing-serious-and-credible-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-mccarthy-announces-biden-impeachment-inquiry-citing-serious-and-credible-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy announces Biden impeachment inquiry, citing &#8216;serious and credible&#8217; claims."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbreaking-mccarthy-announces-biden-impeachment-inquiry-citing-serious-and-credible-allegations%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=2029395&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--><h2>Breaking: McCarthy Announces Biden Impeachment Inquiry, Citing &#8216;Serious\u200b and Credible&#8217; Allegations<\/h2>\n<p>Amid the complex landscape in which conservative House Republicans are demanding cuts to the federal budget, House Speaker\u200c Kevin McCarthy on Thursday announced the formal opening of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-mccarthy-announces-biden-impeachment-inquiry-citing-serious-and-credible-allegations\/\" title=\"McCarthy announces Biden impeachment inquiry, citing 'serious and credible' claims.\">social media post published<\/a> to X, formerly Twitter, McCarthy wrote that House investigators have found a \u201cculture of corruption\u201d surrounding Biden and his family over son Hunter Biden\u2019s business dealings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am directing our House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President\u200d Joe Biden,\u201d McCarthy wrote. \u201cOver the past several months, House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden\u2019s conduct \u2014 \u200ba culture of corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am directing our House committees to \u200copen\u200d a formal impeachment\u2064 inquiry into President Joe Biden. Over the past several months, House Republicans have \u2064uncovered\u2064 serious and credible allegations into President Biden\u2019s conduct\u2014a culture of corruption. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3uoDlUB3Sy\">https:\/\/t.co\/3uoDlUB3Sy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerMcCarthy\/status\/1701616470793547969?\">September 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Expected Move<\/h3>\n<p>The move was widely expected to occur Thursday. On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Punchbowl News<\/a>, a Washington-based online news\u2064 site, reported that McCarthy planned to tell Republican House members during a \u200dclosed-door meeting Thursday that a formal \u2062impeachment inquiry is the \u201clogical next step\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-set-to-initiate-the-logical-next-step-toward-impeachment-of-biden-this-week-report\/\" title=\"McCarthy to Take 'Logical Next Step' for Biden's Impeachment: Report\">existing committee-level investigations<\/a> into the president and his son, Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The report said McCarthy, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mccarthys-time-speaker-may-coming-end-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under pressure<\/a> from GOP conservatives, was expected to tell Republican members that enough information has been found to create a formal process that would\u2063 then have the power to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-andrew-p-napolitano-republicans-and-the-growth-of-government\/\" title=\"Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Republicans and the Growth of Government\">subpoena bank records<\/a> of Biden\u2062 family members and secure other \u2064documents.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hardball-marjorie-taylor-greene-threatens-government-shutdown-unless-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote-happens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impeachment<\/a> process, as with the budget process, has multiple Republican Party crosscurrents.<\/p>\n<h3>Republican Divisions<\/h3>\n<p>Moderate Republicans such as Reps. Ken Buck of Colorado and Don Bacon of Nebraska have said they don\u2019t see the facts gathered to date as rising to the level of impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u200cconservative Republican Rep. Matt\u2062 Gaetz of Florida has said if McCarthy fails to launch a \u2064formal inquiry, he will begin the process of removing McCarthy as speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The impeachment inquiry is inextricably tangled with the process of\u200b adopting a federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>As noted \u200dby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/09\/12\/mccarthy-biden-impeachment-inquiry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a> on Tuesday, some conservatives have \u2062said they will not vote for budget bills unless an impeachment inquiry begins.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/11\/politics\/senate-republican-skeptics-biden-impeachment\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>, Senate Republicans such as West Virginia\u2019s Shelley Moore Capito, Alabama\u2019s Tommy Tuberville and Florida\u2019s Marco Rubio, have looked askance at impeachment, \u200bmeaning even if an\u200d inquiry is launched, achieving \u2062anything seems unlikely at this point.<\/p>\n<h3>Constant Revelations<\/h3>\n<p>McCarthy said Monday that \u200dnew revelations are popping up constantly, referencing the president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-demands-records-discovering-biden-used-several-fake-names-alternate-emails-vp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">use of fake names<\/a> in emails to his son, Hunter Biden, while he was vice president, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/joe-biden\/kevin-mccarthy-plans-formally-endorse-impeachment-inquiry-biden-rcna104585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt only raises more \u2063and more questions, and we\u2019re gonna have to find\u2062 the answers,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cAnd\u2063 this is all information that just has been coming forward that we\u2019ve been able to find out. But \u2062the other information is we find that the \u2064Biden family delays everything. It benefits \u2063them to delay the information. The American public deserves to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Budget\u200b Battle<\/h3>\n<p>Some House conservatives say even going ahead with impeachment will not alter their resolve to force budget cuts, perhaps even at the cost \u2063of a government shutdown when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hardball-marjorie-taylor-greene-threatens-government-shutdown-unless-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote-happens\/\" title=\"Marjorie Taylor Greene demands Biden impeachment vote or threatens government shutdown.\">current budget expires<\/a> at the end of the month, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mccarthy-green-light-biden-impeachment-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Republican Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina has accused McCarthy of \u201cdangling\u201d \u200dimpeachment to keep Republicans in line\u200d on the budget, according to Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Other conservatives are restive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHiding behind impeachment to screw America with status quo \u2063massive funding \u2026 will not end well,\u201d Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas said earlier this month, according to Fox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not going\u2064 to trade one for the other with me, and\u200d I think a lot of members feel that way,\u201d Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania,\u2064 who chairs the conservative Freedom\u2063 Caucus said, according a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/09\/12\/government-shutdown-biden-impeachment-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a> report published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re asking for a very modest change in the status quo,\u201d Perry said. \u201cAnd,\u2062 oh, \u2064by the way, it\u2019s one that the speaker agreed to in January.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post, \u200dciting sources it said were lawmakers and senior aides to leaders, said the likely outcome of all the arguments is to postpone the day of reckoning\u200c by approving a continuing resolution to fund the government through the end of\u2062 October while budget issues were hashed out.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mccarthy-set-initiate-logical-next-step-toward-impeachment-biden-week-report\/\">Breaking: McCarthy Announces Biden\u2064 Impeachment Inquiry, Citing &#8216;Serious\u2064 and Credible&#8217; Allegations<\/a> appeared first\u2063 on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u2064 Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid conservative House Republicans&#8217; push for budget cuts, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has initiated an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. McCarthy stated on X (formerly Twitter) that House investigators have uncovered a &#8220;culture of corruption.&#8221; The complex political landscape intensifies with this announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2029396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029395","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}