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So there we had an explicit invocation of the privilege. There are several permutations of the matter here, across the following variables:

* Questioned is employed in the executive branch or not

* Presence of an explicit invocation of executive privilege or not

* Privilege invoked during or after the end of executive's term

* Answers sought are relevant to Congressional duties or not

As far as I can tell SC hasn't weighed in on any of this. Using common sense, I suspect they'll allow questioning as follows:

1. Material sought must be relevant to Congressional duties.

2. Executive privilege may be invoked over matters of presidential communications, criminal investigations, national security, military operations, and diplomatic communications.

3. A limited, weaker executive privilege remains after the executive leaves office.

4. Executive privilege is not limited to executive employees.

I suspect the path that the GQP will use to press here is the idea that Biden wasn't the one using the autopen (signing a document on behalf of POTUS would be a criminal act), so questioning would likely be limited to that. I think matters beyond that would boil down to whether Biden asserts privilege, but he hasn't done so (yet)..