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Rep. Kevin McCarthy is Officially Ordering an Impeachment Inquiry into Joe Biden.
We all saw it coming.
Well, it’s finally happening.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is ordering an official impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Carl Hulse, Luke Broadwater, and Anni Karni with The New York Times write:
“Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday opened an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, working to appease far-right lawmakers who have threatened to oust him if he fails to accede to their demands for deep spending cuts that would force a government shutdown at the end of the month.
Mr. McCarthy’s decision to unilaterally announce an impeachment investigation with no formal House vote entwined the Republican investigations into Mr. Biden with the funding fight that is rattling the Capitol. It appeared to be a bid to quell a brewing rebellion among ultraconservative critics who have accused the speaker of not taking a hard enough line on spending, by complying with their demands to more aggressively pursue the president…”
I mean, we all knew it was coming.
That doesn’t make it any less cowardly.
It would be one thing if McCarthy actually wanted to do this. It would be one thing if he…
