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Republicans regain power and begin to investigate Biden


The Republican Party regained a swath of power after two years of full Democratic power in Washington. He achieved this, yes, after a siege that almost ended in a permanent rift, due to the loyalty of the last stronghold of former President Donald Trump, who was forced to intervene at dawn on Saturday with a round of personal calls to the rebels. Now, Republicans, led by Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., are embarking on an agenda dedicated above all to investigating the Biden administration over its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the historic increase in irregular immigration and other serious crises.

After the vote, after midnight on Saturday, Republicans must first approve the operating rules for the 180th legislature, something they will do on Monday. Then the accusations are distributed to the committees, and from these investigations the official investigations will be launched.

The Republicans will not have much more power, because in fact for the passage and ratification of laws the Senate is needed, and there the Democrats maintain their majority. In the event that they wish to challenge President Biden through an impeachment process, they too will fail, as the legislature is divided.

The Republicans’ greatest strength will be the ability to subpoena top executives to testify investigation committees. Among the priorities is the investigation of the millionaire business in Ukraine and China of the son of the current president, Hunter Biden, The Public Prosecution is investigating him. Republicans have decried that banks Biden Jr. worked with have reported up to 100 shady deals to tax authorities they want more information on.

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Honors also wants to investigate the FBI, the US judicial police, for its investigations into Trump and his government, and how he searched his Florida home for classified documents. In short, many of the lawmakers now in power believe the FBI has become politicized and part of a kind of deep state that works in the service of Biden and the Democrats. Rep. Jim Jordan, who has the integers to chair the justice committee, has already said he wants to call the attorney general, who oversees that police force, to testify.

Another item on the agenda is Biden’s decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan in 2021, sparking a frantic attempt by many Afghans to flee the country. A terrorist attack at Kabul airport killed hundreds, mostly Afghans, as well as 13 Americans. Republicans have repeatedly denounced Biden’s haste to turn the eviction into a complete mess.

It will depend on the distribution of fees

It all depends on the distribution of positions now occupied by Representative McCarthy, who won the presidency of the Chamber after an extraordinary succession by 15 votes, and after losing the fourteenth by one vote. In fact, he only came to office thanks to the abstention of six members of his party. In total, McCarthy received 216 affirmative votes. For his part, Democrat Hakeem Jeffries added 212.

Thus, Washington emerged, shocked by an institutional crisis unprecedented in a century due to the division of the Republican Party, hostage to a group of deputies who, for three days, refused to support their leaders. The Republicans, who won the House of Representatives elections in November by a very narrow majority, have not agreed to elect a leader as a caucus.

McCarthy had previously agreed to many of the demands of his critics in his own party, including reinstating an old rule in the House of Representatives that allowed any member to call a vote to impeach him. The demands of the rebels, on the populist wing, in turn have made the moderate Republicans uncomfortable, on whom the Speaker of the House also relies on the most dire situation in decades. For example, according to what they leaked to the national media, one of McCarthy’s concessions is to allow laws to be debated and voted upon to set term limits for Representatives and Senators, as for the president of the nation.

Republicans arrive at the hype in a year in which they must prepare for the 2024 primaries, a year in which the Capitol and White House will be renovated again, after a Biden term marked by the end of the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Thus the opposition party lacks a stable leadership. Trump launched his third campaign for the presidency two months ago, but he hasn’t gained much momentum yet and has many rivals aspiring to beat him in the primaries, such as conservative Florida Ron DeSantis.

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