Republicans want to impeach Biden if they take back the House: The GOP wants to try the president for “serious crimes” on the border and the withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Some Republican lawmakers are signaling they will make impeaching President Joe Biden a priority if their party wins control of the House.
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office told DailyMail.com that she intends to file an impeachment trial against Biden next year.
- She and other Republicans have called for impeaching Biden several times.
- It had virtually no chance of passing the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
- House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy previously vowed not to impeach Biden for “political purposes” but did not rule it out entirely.
Members of the House Republican Party are increasing calls to impeach President Joe Biden if their party takes control of the House of Representatives in the November midterm elections.
Republicans are still projected to outnumber Democrats’ slim majority in the lower house of Congress despite a drop in support after the Supreme Court and the rollback of abortion rights in several Republican states.
In the past year and a half, several Republican lawmakers have accused Biden of “serious crimes and misdemeanors,” mainly because of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the ongoing crisis on the southern border with Mexico.
The largely symbolic efforts had no chance of passing in the Democratic-controlled House.
But with less than three months to go until the election, which has the potential to shift Biden’s power to set the agenda for the second half of his term, conservative lawmakers are making it clear that unseating the president is one of their top priorities.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has filed articles of impeachment against Biden in the past across Afghanistan, the border and the Supreme Court, will do so again next year, DailyMail.com has learned.
‘Congresswoman Greene wanted Joe Biden to be impeached on his first day in office. She thinks it should happen as soon as possible,” Greene’s spokesman, Nick Dyer, told DailyMail.com.
House Republicans are once again renewing calls to impeach President Joe Biden with less than three months to go before the midterm elections.
“She will introduce the articles of impeachment in the 118th Congress.”
Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona said Tuesday morning that it’s not just Biden they’re after.
He suggested on Twitter that “we will also come for Mayorkas and Garland,” amid growing calls from Republicans to impeach the secretary of Homeland Security over the immigration crisis and verbal attacks on the attorney general over Justice Department investigations into Donald Trump.
Texas Rep. Chip Roy’s office pointed to DailyMail.com the former sheriff’s recent calls for impeachment of Biden and Mayorkas earlier this month.
“Over the past several months, President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have blatantly and consistently failed to uphold their constitutional duty to see that immigration laws are faithfully enforced, as required by Article II, endangering countless American and foreign lives in the process. Roy told Fox News on August 3.
Conservative Illinois Rep. Mary Miller has called for the president’s impeachment exactly a year after an ISIS-K suicide bomber killed nearly 200 people, including 13 US service members, outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul amid of the evacuation of the US Army.
“Joe Biden’s presidency consists of the greatest national security failure in the history of our country,” Miller said in a public statement on Friday.
“I have called for immediate oversight hearings on the mismanagement of the Afghanistan withdrawal, in addition to the impeachment of Biden and other top Pentagon officials.”
A recent CBS News poll suggests the GOP is still strongly expected to retake the House of Representatives in November; however, his projected lead has shrunk to just eight seats.
It’s unclear whether House Republican leaders will consider impeachment calls, given concerns about alienating independent and moderate voters ahead of the critical 2024 election cycle.
Criticizing the two Democrats’ impeachment of Trump, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy promised in April that Republicans would not impeach Biden for “political purposes” but did not entirely rule out the move.
‘We will comply with the law. At any point, if someone breaks the law and the ramification turns into an impeachment, we would move towards that. But we’re not going to use it for political purposes,” he told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures.
House Republican whip Steve Scalise and Republican Conference President Elise Stefanik have also remained silent on the impeachment trial, though the latter called Biden “unfit” for office following the death of the 13 US troops in Kabul.
DailyMail.com has contacted the offices of McCarthy, Scalise and Stefanik for comment.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in September 2020 that he opposed impeaching the Democratic commander-in-chief.
“Look, there’s not going to be an impeachment trial, but I think we have a good chance of winning that election next year,” he said after calls for the president’s impeachment over the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
At the time, he did not specify whether he would change his mind with a GOP-dominated Congress in 2023.
