Home Oversight Committee rating member Rep. Jamie Raskin laid out why the Home Republican investigation of President Biden has been an epic flop.
Rep. Raskin (D-MD) stated in an announcement supplied to PoliticusUSA:
By August 2021, within the first six months of the 117th Congress, Home Democrats had helped kickstart our nation’s economic system with the American Rescue Plan and handed a funds with historic investments in working households. We went on to go laws to scale back drug and power prices, handle the local weather disaster, carry jobs again to America, and rebuild our nation’s infrastructure with groundbreaking legal guidelines just like the Inflation Discount Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation. Even within the first six months of the 116th Congress, when Donald Trump was within the White Home, the Home Democratic Majority delivered significant reform for the American folks by working throughout the aisle to go greater than 20 payments that had been signed into regulation, together with funding to finish a 35-day authorities shutdown brought on by Trump and congressional Republicans, laws to assist veterans and victims of pure disasters, and landmark enactments preserving public lands for future generations.
In contrast, the primary MAGA-directed Congress is by far essentially the most reckless and least productive in a long time. After holding the American economic system hostage by threatening to default on America’s monetary obligations, Home Republicans are actually eagerly pushing the federal government to the brink of a shutdown. As an alternative of engaged on laws to advertise the frequent good and even simply hold the federal government working, Home Republicans are weaponizing their workplaces and exploiting congressional energy and sources to advertise debunked and outlandish conspiracy theories about President Biden. It is a clear effort to spice up Donald Trump’s marketing campaign by establishing a false ethical equivalency between Trump—the 4 time-indicted former president now going through 91 federal and state prison fees, primarily based on a mountain of damning proof for a stunning vary of felonies, together with mendacity to the FBI, endangering nationwide safety by illegally protecting categorized paperwork, and conspiring to subvert the U.S. Structure—and President Biden, in opposition to whom there may be exactly zero proof of any wrongdoing in anyway. On the contrary, Chairman Comer’s investigation has conclusively disproven the Republican allegations in opposition to President Biden.
Home Republicans always insist that they’re investigating President Biden and never his grownup son. In that case, we will type an apparent judgment on their investigation: it has been a whole and whole bust—an epic flop within the historical past of congressional investigations. The voluminous proof they’ve gathered, together with 1000’s of pages of financial institution information and, suspicious exercise stories and hours of testimony from witnesses, overwhelmingly demonstrates no wrongdoing by President Biden and additional debunks Republicans’ conspiracy theories. Relatively than admit this unavoidable reality about their failed investigation, Home Republicans have mischaracterized, cherry-picked, and hid proof and recycled lengthy debunked conspiracy theories initially peddled by Rudy Giuliani and Trump, all in humiliating subservience to Donald Trump’s petulant demand that they impeach President Biden.
Within the face of Republicans’ shameful perversion of congressional energy and misuse of taxpayer {dollars} for this hopeless wild goose chase, Committee Democrats will proceed to defend the reality, the rule of regulation, and the integrity of our Structure and democratic establishments.
Home Republicans Have Come Up With No Proof In opposition to Biden
Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) has no evidence that President Biden did anything wrong. Comer has accused Biden of bribery however has no evidence that the President obtained any cash. Comer has accused Biden of obstructing his investigation, however the evidence shows that entities like the National Archives have been cooperating with investigative requests.
Rep. Comer has spent months investigating the President’s son, who shouldn’t be in authorities and doesn’t work for the administration in any means. Tens of millions of {dollars} of taxpayer cash have been spent on investigations which have turned up nothing.
Speaker McCarthy is going to move forward with Biden impeachment as a result of that’s what Trump and his MAGA followers within the Home need, however the investigation has been an embarrassing failure and an train within the abuse of energy that can seemingly do nothing to assist Trump in 2024.
