Rep. James Comer recently said that he sees an increasingly narrow window for impeaching President Joe Biden — even if his ongoing investigation unearths ethical misconduct.
The House Oversight Committee chairman warned that the “math keeps getting worse” for Republicans eager to impeach Biden.
A narrowing GOP majority in the House of Representatives, combined with any impeachment effort’s likely defeat by the Democrat-controlled Senate, risks undermining the impeachment inquiry.
“The accountability, I hope will come this year, but it may come next year with a new president, a new attorney general,” Comer told Spectrum News. “At the end of the day, my goal is to get the truth out there and hold people accountable for wrongdoing. That may encompass impeachment. If it doesn’t, that’s fine with me.”
He instead suggested findings could set the stage for federal scrutiny after Biden leaves office, especially if Trump returns to power.
The White House has dismissed the Republican investigation into the Biden family as a “baseless political stunt that even Republicans in Congress admit is not supported by facts.”
Comer admitted that several months of probing the Biden family foreign business dealings has yet to provide smoking gun evidence of Joe Biden’s criminal behavior, and said Republicans would need to weigh whether Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is successfully removed by the Senate.
Mayorkas was impeached by the Republican-controlled House by only one vote last week.
“I think the conference will get to see what happens with this Mayorkas impeachment in the Senate, and how serious the Senate treats that as to whether or not we impeach Joe Biden over here or we just focus on holding him accountable,” Comer said.
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