House Republicans authorize impeachment investigation into Joe Biden. What's next?

 House Republicans authorize impeachment investigation into Joe Biden. What's next?

WASHINGTON − Republican investigators are projecting confidence about their impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden after the House formally licensed the push, even as it lacks evidence aiding their allegations.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., told journalists Wednesday that House Republicans' unanimous vote formalizing the impeachment inquiry "shows we’re united."

"We count on to have human beings honor our subpoenas. We desire to wrap this investigation up.” Comer stated in a information convention alongside House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo.

It's not clear when Republicans hope to wrap up their investigation into the president. But a senior House Republican aide stated they hope to end it “expeditiously” and come to a selection about whether or not to draft articles of impeachment in opposition to Biden.

Republicans have accused Biden of leveraging his preceding function as vice president to have an effect on and advantage from his family’s overseas enterprise dealings. Though the inquiry has turned up evidence showing the president’s son, Hunter Biden, used his household identify to his advantage, GOP lawmakers have not without delay implicated the president.

House Republicans have made the president’s son a focal point of their investigation.

The House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena calling on him to testify in the back of closed doors on Wednesday. But Hunter Biden alternatively defied the subpoena and delivered remarks on Capitol Hill criticizing the inquiry and accusing GOP lawmakers of weaponizing his battles with drug addiction to assault his father.

After his uncommon public comments, House Republicans zeroed in on a key phase of Hunter Biden’s remarks, when he said “my father was once not financially concerned in my business.” Comer and Jordan have pointed to the word “financially,” questioning whether or not the president may have been concerned but now not at once tied to dealing with money.

“Joe Biden used to be now not financially concerned in his family’s business dealings. Exactly how used to be Joe Biden involved?” Comer and Jordan said in a joint statement.

Ian Sams, the White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, pushed lower back on that argument in an interview on CNN on Thursday morning, pronouncing Comer and Jordan have been misrepresenting a "semantic thing."

"The president was not in commercial enterprise with his son, period," Sams said. "They're attempting to make up all sorts of allegations."

Whether House Republicans will start proper impeachment complaints stretching beyond their preliminary investigation also isn't clear. House Democrats have referred to as Republican efforts to remove Joe Biden from workplace inevitable, however some GOP lawmakers from swing districts are preserving their playing cards close to their chest after approving the inquiry.

“Not the politics. The information and evidence will decide any next steps,” Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., who represents a district Biden received in the 2020 election, stated Wednesday evening. “We didn’t have a vote on impeachment.”