Scoop: Democrats dare GOP to impeach Biden

Source: Axios

11 hours ago


House Democrats are effectively inviting a hardline Republican to go rogue and force a vote to impeach President Biden in the final weeks of the 2024 election.

Why it matters: Top House Democrats are in rare agreement with their Republican counterparts that an impeachment vote would damage GOP attempts to hang onto control of the House.

"The whole investigation has been a debacle for them, they have egg all over their face," said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who is House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' (D-N.Y.) point-man on impeachment as ranking member of the Oversight Committee.

The vote, he argued, would "either prove that all of them are invested in this nonsense, or that they can't even ... get all the Republicans in the House to vote for it."

Driving the news: Top House Republicans and swing-district GOP lawmakers are furious about the prospect of a Trump ally like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) or Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) forcing a vote to impeach Biden, Axios' Juliegrace Brufke reported.

An Oversight Committee report last week accused Biden of "impeachable conduct" related to his family's business dealings but fell short of providing evidence of specific criminal wrongdoing.

Multiple lawmakers on the party's right flank quickly reacted by calling for an impeachment vote when the House returns in September.

Under House rules, any single member can bypass leadership and force votes on impeachment and other similar measures.

What they're saying: "Call the vote. They should do that. That vote is a paved road to the minority," Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) told Axios, noting many Republicans "have never wanted to do the vote."

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