Scalise says impeachment potential for Biden Cabinet members after McCarthy’s concept for inquiry

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise mentioned impeachment isn’t off the desk for different Biden Cabinet members simply because Speaker Kevin McCarthy raised the potential of an impeachment inquiry towards President Joe Biden.

Mr. Scalise, Louisiana Republican, throughout the weekly leaders’ press convention, advised reporters that the GOP convention may draw up a number of items of laws, together with the upcoming spending invoice, and maintain quite a few officers within the Biden administration accountable whereas investigating the president and his son over allegations of foreign-money corruption.

“We can do many things at the same time, and we have proven that we have been able to expose a lot of things going on in the Biden administration from multiple agencies, he said. “So an impeachment inquiry is just one more example where we’ve been trying to get information from the Biden administration; they’ve been trying to block us on many fronts.”

Mr. Scalise mentioned a number of committees are coping with investigations of Biden Cabinet members’ work.

“One of our responsibilities as a majority is to hold the administration accountable, even when they’re trying to cover things up,” he mentioned. “And so we’re going to continue to dig into this. You saw Chairman [Mark] Green [of Tennessee] laying out through the Homeland Security Committee a set of criteria for [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas. And there have been moves to impeach there.”

Mr. McCarthy, California Republican, earlier within the week mentioned he would think about an impeachment inquiry into the foreign-money corruption accusations involving Mr. Biden and his son Hunter if the president stonewalls congressional investigators. Still, the speaker insisted the trouble wouldn’t be political.

“If a department in government, just like the Richard Nixon years, denies the ability to get the information we’re asking, that would rise to impeachment inquiry,” Mr. McCarthy advised reporters within the Capitol on Tuesday.

The speaker’s feedback come amid mounting allegations that Mr. Biden had data and maybe involvement in his household’s overseas enterprise offers and partook within the hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in funds they acquired courting again to his time as vice chairman.

The White House dismissed Republicans’ speak of a possible impeachment inquiry, with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refusing to remark about it Tuesday