Senator Ron Johnson said he intends to complete the investigation into Hunter Biden, which began in 2020, when the Republicans still had a majority in the Senate.
Leading Republican lawmakers in the U.S. Senate are already putting together an extensive wish list of investigations into Hunter Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the southwestern border, among other items, in case they regain a majority in Congress in November, according to a new report released Sunday. .
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) criticized federal agencies under the Biden administration for a “lack of transparency” when he stressed the need for congressional oversight in a commentary to The Hill.
Of particular interest to the Wisconsin MP, who chaired the Senate Homeland Security Committee until 2021, is the business dealings of the president’s son, Hunter.
Johnson said he had been trying to get the younger Biden’s travel records for “a couple of years” to no avail.
“The lack of transparency in these agencies. Their lack of willingness to comply with the legitimate oversight of Congress,” said the Republican.
“I mean, I think this is an investigation right here, so Congress can no longer exercise legal oversight.”
Johnson previously teamed up with Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to release an “interim report” in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election titled “Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Issues.”
The report accused Hunter Biden of “cashing in” on his father’s role as vice president in the Obama administration, but found no wrongdoing by then-nominee Biden himself.
But Johnson indicated there was more to the investigation. Control of the Senate passed to the Democrats when Biden took office.
“I would like to end here. We have been trying to get his travel records for several years now,” Johnson said of his investigation on Sunday.
On Sunday, Johnson said he had been trying to get Hunter Biden’s travel records for “a couple of years” to no avail.
At the time, Democratic lawmakers accused Republicans of spreading disinformation with their investigation.
The senator dismissed fears that a renewed focus on Hunter Biden’s business dealings would rob Republican leaders of a plan to attack the president over his record in the White House.
He pointed out that a potentially massive investigation could trap others in Biden’s orbit as well.
— I’ll be that mosquito. It’s hard to say what goals I can choose. They will all be juicy,” he said.
Other members of Johnson’s faction are considering more recent issues.
Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) have floated the idea of investigating Fauci, the White House’s chief medical adviser, on charges ranging from abuse of power during the COVID-19 pandemic to allegations of that he funded virus research in Wuhan, China, which allegedly could lead to an outbreak.
Paul is likely to become chairman of the Senate Health Committee if the Republicans regain their seat in the Senate. Current ranking member in the group Richard Burr (RN.C.) is retiring.
“If we win in November, if I’m chairman of the committee, if I have the right to subpoena, we’ll go after every one of [Fauci’s] Records,” a Kentucky MP told podcast host Lisa Booth in February.
Meanwhile, Senators Rand Paul and Tom Cotton are calling for congressional and even criminal investigations into White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“We’ll ask the investigator to go through this piecemeal because we don’t need it to happen again.”
Cotton told Fox News that Fauci should be prosecuted in an interview late last year as the Republican Party accused the health expert of funding research to increase functionality at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“He must be investigated and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” Cotton said in September.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has previously indicated that he would like to investigate the southern border, where a record number of migrants poured into Biden’s first year in office, straining federal, state, and local infrastructure that was unsuitable for against the influx of hundreds of thousands of people.
In November, Scott called for an “immediate investigation to ensure that all who enter our country are properly screened and processed and hold the administration accountable for its primary duty to comply with U.S. laws” in his Law Enforcement at Our Frontier Act.
Florida Senator Rick Scott has demanded an investigation into how the Biden administration handled the border crisis late last year. March 18). 2022)
“The administration is either deliberately keeping local law enforcement and the public in the dark, or deliberately violating US laws by allowing unverified immigrants to roam freely in America,” the Florida Republican said in a press release at the time.
“We cannot allow them to continue to recklessly defy U.S. laws and endanger families.”
Less than nine months before the midterm elections, only one Democratic senator announced his resignation compared to five incumbent Republicans.
Republicans will only need to flip one blue seat to regain the majority they lost in 2020.
Poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight, which regularly tracks the overall congressional ballot race, shows Republicans leading Democrats by about two points.
However, the general dissatisfaction of Americans with the Congress is obvious. Both sides failed to overcome the 50 percent average favor, with 44.9 percent supporting the Republican Party and 42.6 percent supporting the Democrats.