Former president Trump has pressed Republicans to try to remove Mr Biden from office. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, bowing to pressure from his party’s hard right, authorised the launch on Tuesday of an impeachment investigation into US President Joe Biden.
for possible tax evasion and is expected to be charged by the end of this month on a firearms violation. “We have found that President Biden did lie to the American people about his own knowledge of his family’s foreign business dealings,” Mr McCarthy said. Mr McCarthy, whose hold on the Speaker’s gavel is dependent on support from right-wing hardliners, had previously said he would first hold a vote in the House before launching an impeachment inquiry.
A number of moderate Republican members of the House have expressed scepticism about launching an impeachment probe into Mr Biden.Under the US Constitution, a president can be impeached for “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”by the then Democratic-controlled House of former Republican president Trump.
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