Republicans add new threats to impeach Austin and Garland, along with Biden and Mayorkas
Republican lawmakers are threatening to impeach Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as President Joe Biden and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
WASHINGTON — Republicans are entering their impeachment era.
The House majority is kicking off the new year by aggressively advancing existing impeachment inquiries into President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Now, Republican lawmakers are launching new threats to impeach Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well.
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., has announced articles of impeachment after Austin failed to inform the White House for three days that he had been hospitalized. Rosendale, who is considering a possible Senate bid this year, proclaimed Monday that Austin has “violated his oath of office time and time again, and has jeopardized the lives of the American people.”
The same evening, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., indicated in an interview with Newsmax that Garland could also be subject to impeachment if he doesn't charge Hunter Biden with contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena.
Asked whether failure to charge Hunter Biden, the president’s son, would be grounds for Garland’s impeachment, Comer said, “I think so.”
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