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While Republican House SpeakerKevin McCarthyannounced Tuesday that his party is launching an impeachment inquiry into PresidentJoe Biden, not everyone in his party is convinced it’s a good idea.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio toldThe Hillthat impeachment “should generally be avoided for the interest of the country," adding: “It can’t become routine."
McCarthy directed his party to open an impeachment inquiry in a Tuesday afternoon press conference, in which he accused Biden of lying to Americans “about his own knowledge of his family’s foreign business dealings.”
“Today, I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden,” McCarthy said. Calling it a “logical next step,” the speaker accused Biden of “abuse of power, corruption and obstruction,” and claimed the president had “used his official office to coordinate with” his sonHunter Biden’s various business dealings.
“We will go wherever the evidence takes us,” McCarthy said in ending his speech.
Joe Biden (left), Kevin McCarthy.Kevin Dietsch/Getty; Alex Wong/Getty
West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a leader in the Senate Republican Conference, toldThe Hillthat she does not believe there’s enough evidence to impeach Biden.
Another Senate Republican leader, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, believes that the mission to impeach Biden is a waste of House Republicans' resources, tellingThe Hill: “Rather than doing something they know is unlikely to end the way they would like, maybe they want to emphasize other things.”
Even in the House, some Republicans are not convinced that impeachment is warranted. On Sunday, Colorado Rep. Ken Buck, a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, “The time for impeachment is the time when there’s evidence linking President Biden — if there’s evidence linking President Biden to a high crime or misdemeanor. That doesn’t exist right now."
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