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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was handed a huge victory in her fight for a Biden impeachment from Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
Greene, the outspoken MAGA-aligned Republican congresswoman from Georgia, has been pushing for impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden since before he was even inaugurated and before she was sworn into office in January 2021.
On Biden's first full day as president, January 21, 2021, Greene filed articles of impeachment against him, alleging improper involvement with his son, Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, which has been widely contested or outright dismissed as actual proof of wrongdoing.
Nevertheless, Biden's alleged involvement in his son's dealings has remained the backbone of the Republican effort to impeach him, which took a significant step forward on Tuesday as Johnson announced that a vote to formalize an inquiry would be held next week. The impeachment inquiry process has been underway for a handful of months after it received the endorsement of previous House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
"The House has no choice if it's going to follow its constitutional responsibility to formally adopt an impeachment inquiry on the floor so that when the subpoenas are challenged in court, we will be at the apex of our constitutional authority," Johnson said in a statement.
Newsweek reached out to Greene's office via email for comment.
The results of the inquiry have, so far, received the same sorts of criticism from observers as the initial allegations—that they are insubstantial, do not indicate any wrongdoing on Biden's part, and do not concern any of his activities from the time that he has been president.
On Monday evening, after the House Republican leadership signaled their intention to pursue a vote, the White House released a statement to various outlets, including Newsweek, dismissing the move as a "baseless...stunt." The statement also laid out multiple ways the inquiry has fallen flat.
"House Republicans held a single, disastrous hearing featuring Republican-called witnesses who conceded that there is no evidence to support impeachment," the statement said. "House Republicans' attempt to distort new bank records they obtained were fact-checked and debunked.
"New records from the National Archives they previously said would reveal 'pretty damaging evidence' failed to back up their claims. House Republicans heard from multiple senior law enforcement officials – including Special Counsel David Weiss – testifying that there has been no political interference in Weiss' probe. Their allegations of 'stonewalling' have been refuted by the evidence."
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