A key part of the White House plan to combat the new House GOP majority was on vivid display on Wednesday: President Biden talked about bridges and bipartisanship, while Republicans bickered among themselves.
COVINGTON, Ky. — A key part of the White House plan to combat the new House GOP majority was on vivid display Wednesday: President Joe Biden talked about bridges and bipartisanship, while Republicans bickered among themselves.House Republicans deadlockedThere is little doubt that once Republicans figure out who will run the House, they plan to aim the chamber's subpoena power straight at Biden.
President Joe Biden shakes hands with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell in front of the Brent Spence Bridge in Covington, Ky., on Wednesday.work together,” Biden said with the heavily trafficked, 60-year-old Brent Spence Bridge as a backdrop. “We can get things done. We can move the nation forward if we just drop a little bit of our egos and focus on what’s needed in this country.”Republican investigations has been months in the making.
“The endgame, to be honest, is to turn the table on them,” said Brad Woodhouse, a senior adviser to a pro-Biden group called the Congressional Integrity Project, referring to House Republicans. “They’re doing this to hurt Joe Biden politically. So our effort will be to inflict political pain on them.”
The White House has added a handful of new attorneys, along with a communications team, to deal with the slew of investigations likely to unfold. More hires will come this year. The general view inside the White House is that there is little of substance to worry about. Officials believe the GOP-led investigations stem from conspiracy theories and personal animus aimed at weakening Biden if he runs for re-election.
In November, Jordan and other House Republicans sent a letter warning White House chief of staff Ron Klain that they might use subpoena power when they gained the majority to obtain Biden administration records involving the treatment of parents at school board meetings — a hot-button issue for right-wing media.Ethics Committee“This is the same Jim Jordan who defined a lawful subpoena from the January 6 committee,” Goldman said.
Parallel to the White House efforts, a string of outside groups is now up and running, hoping to derail the GOP investigations. One focus will be the twenty-some Republican House members representing districts that Biden won in 2020 or that swing between the two parties. By deploying operatives in targeted districts and using paid ads, the groups will try to press lawmakers into breaking with hard-right colleagues running the investigations, people familiar with the strategy said.
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