Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stated Tuesday that he'll let the House deal with the impeachment inquiry towards President Biden and see the way it “plays out.”

“I don’t think Speaker McCarthy needs any advice from the Senate on how to run the House,” stated Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican.

“Look we’ve got our hands full here trying to get through the appropriations process … and I don’t have any advice to give to the house,” he advised reporters on the Capitol. “They’ve got a totally different set of challenges than we do. So I think the best advice for the Senate is to do our job and we’ll see how this plays out later.”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy introduced Tuesday that the House will go ahead with an impeachment inquiry of Mr. Biden to look at his involvement in his son Hunter Biden’s big-money international enterprise offers.

Just final month in a New York Times interview, Mr. McConnell stated that impeachments “ought to be rare” and that “this is not good for the county.”

“I said two years ago, when we had not one but two impeachments, that once we go down this path, it incentivizes the other side to do the same thing,” he stated. 

Before the 2 impeachments of former President Donald Trump, the final president to face impeachment had been President Clinton in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice for mendacity to federal investigators. Before that, the final president to face impeachment was President Andrew Johnson in 1868.

Impeachments have been uncommon, however now the nation has seen three impeachment inquiries within the span of 5 years.

“It really comes to how do you prioritize your time,” Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, advised The Hill. “I don’t know of anybody who believes [Democratic Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer will take it up and actually have a trial and convict a sitting president.”

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