In a recent interview with FOX News, newly appointed House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, expressed his commitment to the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, emphasizing the constitutional responsibility of House Republicans to pursue the truth.
"We're the rule of law team. We don't use this for political partisan games like the Democrats have done and did against Donald Trump twice. We are going to follow the law and follow the Constitution, and I think we have a suspicion of where that may lead, but we're going to let the evidence speak for itself," Johnson stated.
He further indicated that the forthcoming days and weeks would reveal the reasons behind the next steps of the impeachment inquiry, promising transparency to the American public.
When questioned about the possibility of subpoenaing Hunter Biden, President Biden's son, during the investigation, Johnson confirmed that the option was under consideration, but no decision had been made yet.
This echoed the sentiments of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, who had previously told FOX News that Hunter Biden would be subpoenaed when the timing was appropriate.
"The one thing the American public has to understand is there's a strategy behind everything. We only follow facts. Hunter Biden will get subpoenaed, but when's the appropriate time? Do you do it because television wants it, or do you do it around the facts and the timing?" McCarthy had said.
He had also emphasized the necessity of obtaining bank records to determine the appropriate questions to ask Hunter Biden, stating, "To just subpoena Hunter Biden because you want to fundraise, or you want to do something that's not how we're going to run an investigation."
Johnson reiterated on Sunday that House Republicans were diligently gathering evidence, and their work was far from complete.
"We're trying to move forward on some of this very aggressively. I think the American people are owed these answers," he said. "And I think our suspicions about all this, the evidence that we've gathered so far is affirming what many of us feared maybe the worst As Jamie Comer likes to say, 'Bank records don't lie.' We already have a lot of this evidence. The dots are being connected, and we'll see where it leads."
In addition to the impeachment inquiry, Johnson also addressed other pressing issues such as support for Israel, the rise of antisemitism on college campuses across the U.S., and government spending.
Regarding the budget deadline on November 17, Johnson suggested he would be open to a short-term stopgap funding measure through January 15.
"I've talked to my colleagues about this in the speaker's race. I mentioned that I would favor, as for purposes of discussion to build consensus around, if there indeed has to be a stopgap funding measure, that we would do that until January 15. And the reason for that is it gets us beyond to the end of the year push," he explained.
Johnson also criticized the Senate's tendency to force an omnibus spending bill on the House, stating, "Were not doing that here anymore, were having single subject bills in our separate appropriations bills and so pushing that into January I think would assist us in that endeavor."
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