House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA 20) announces impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over his alleged family business dealings. On X (formerly Twitter), McCarthy posted, “I am directing our House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Over the past several months, House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct—a culture of corruption.”
However, this comes when the House Freedom Caucus threatens to unseat McCarthy as House speaker over the government shutdown. One of its members and lawmakers on Capitol Hill Matt Gaetz (R-FL 1) is quoted as saying, “You are out of compliance with the agreement that allowed you to assume this role on the house floor.”
After McCarthy announced the inquiry, Gaetz posted on X (formerly Twitter), “Kevin McCarthy discussing an impeachment inquiry is not enough. We’ve heard this before.” Matt Gaetz has had conflict with McCarthy before and after the 118th Congress began session as Representative Gaetz argued that McCarthy was too aligned to the establishment and the status quo of the government.
This led to the House Freedom Caucus to rebel against McCarthy’s speakership in January less than two months after the 2022 Midterms. The nomination for the speakership was contested to thirteen rounds of voting in the new congress after four days of voting. McCarthy would win the speakership narrowly as he made an agreement with the House Freedom Caucus on certain issues they wanted to accomplish.
McCarthy appears to want to appease the Freedom Caucus’s demands to have an investigation on President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. However, it is too early to tell whether the inquiry will help the demands of the Freedom Caucus as the 2024 election is around the corner and whether it will prove results or just political show. It is also a question of whether the threat by Gaetz to remove McCarthy as House speaker will truly be fulfilled by the House Freedom Caucus.
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