Republicans want to IMPEACH Biden if they retake the House – but GOP leaders silent as midterms loom
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is planning on re-introducing articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden in the new Congress next year, DailyMail.com has learned.
It comes as a vocal faction of the House GOP is ramping up calls to impeach Biden if their party takes control of the House of Representatives in the November midterms.
Republicans are still projected to overtake Democrats‘ slim majority in Congress’ lower chamber despite a slump in support following the Supreme Court and several red states’ rollbacks of abortion rights.
The last year and a half has seen multiple GOP lawmakers accuse Biden of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,’ primarily over the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and the continuing crisis on the southern border with Mexico.
The largely symbolic efforts had no chance of passing in the Democrat-controlled House.
But with less than three months before the races – which have the potential to upend Biden’s agenda-setting power for the latter half of his term – conservative lawmakers are making clear that ousting the president is one of their top priorities.
Greene – who has introduced impeachment articles against Biden in the past over Afghanistan, the border and the Supreme Court – will be doing so again next year.
‘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 until the midterm elections
‘She will be introducing 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’ll be coming for Mayorkas and Garland too,’ amid growing GOP calls to impeach the Homeland Security Secretary over the migrant crisis and verbal attacks on the Attorney General over the Justice Department’s investigations into Donald Trump.
Texas Rep. Chip Roy’s office pointed DailyMail.com to the former sheriff’s recent calls for Biden and Mayorkas’ impeachment earlier this month.
‘Over the past several months, President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have blatantly and consistently refused to do their constitutional duty to take care that the immigration laws be faithfully executed, as required by Article II, endangering countless American and foreign lives in the process,’ Roy told Fox News on August 3.
Illinois conservative Rep. Mary Miller called for the president’s removal exactly one year after an ISIS-K suicide bomber killed nearly 200 people including 13 US service members outside of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul in the midst of the American military’s evacuation.
‘Joe Biden’s presidency consists of the biggest national security failure in the history of our country,’ Miller said in a public statement on Friday.
‘I’ve called for immediate oversight hearings on the mismanagement of the withdrawal from Afghanistan in addition to the impeachment of Biden and other top Pentagon officials.’
A recent CBS News poll suggests the GOP is still solidly expected to retake the House of Representatives in November – however, their projected lead has shrunk to just eight seats.
It’s not clear if House Republican leaders will entertain calls for impeachment, given concerns of distancing Independent and moderate voters ahead of the critical 2024 election cycle.
In taking a shot at Democrats’ two impeachments of Trump, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy pledged in April that Republicans would not impeach Biden for ‘political purposes’ – but did not totally rule out the move.
‘We’re going to uphold the law. At any time, if someone breaks the law and the ramification becomes 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 GOP Whip Steve Scalise and Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik have similarly been silent on impeachment, though the latter called Biden ‘unfit’ for office following the deaths of the 13 US troops in Kabul.
DailyMail.com has reached out to McCarthy, Scalise and Stefanik’s offices for comment.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in September 2020 that he opposed impeaching the Democrat commander-in-chief.
‘Look, there isn’t going to be an impeachment, but I think we have a good chance of winning that election next year,’ he said following calls for the president’s ouster over the Afghanistan withdrawal.
At the time, he did not specify whether he’d change his mind with a GOP-dominated Congress in 2023.
