Biden Allies, But Not the White House, Cite Kushner in Discrediting Impeachment Push

The morning after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over his son's business dealings, the White House released a 16-page memo explaining why the inquiry was groundless.

"Virtually every single allegation that House Republicans have suggested would be the basis for pursuing impeachment have been refuted," Ian Sams, a senior advisor to the President and spokesperson for the White House Counsel’s Office, wrote in the memo.

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“Some colleagues from across the aisle have explicitly said that the Kushner family has engaged in business dealings that may have crossed the ethical line, and I agree, yet they refuse to act,” Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat and member of the Oversight Committee, said on the House floor Tuesday. “Is this the same party that’s obsessed with President Biden’s family?”

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