McCarthy opposes Boebert’s privileged resolution to impeach Biden
Reese Gorman
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) opposes Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) privileged resolution to impeach President Joe Biden and believes her resolution can harm the House’s investigations into Biden and his family.
Boebert filed a privileged resolution to impeach Biden on Tuesday, meaning House leadership has two days to schedule the vote. The resolution, if it comes to the floor for a vote, will likely face a successful motion to table as now the speaker and many other House Republicans oppose the measure.
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“If we just bring something to the floor with only two days’ notice, what case have you made to the American public?” McCarthy asked. “I take this role very seriously. I take swearing and upholding the Constitution. So if it ever rises to that level, I’m not opposed to moving impeachment. But just to put something on the floor because someone disagrees with somebody is not the responsibility, I believe, of doing it correctly.”
Contrary to Boebert, McCarthy said, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) worked with other members on her privileged resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and got all the facts behind it when she brought it to the floor. It failed the first time because of its multimillion-dollar fine, not because people opposed censuring Schiff.
McCarthy also referenced the House investigations into Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and other members of his family. He said an impeachment resolution could harm the House’s investigation and getting to the bottom of some of the allegations surrounding Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
McCarthy said nobody was given a heads-up that Boebert planned on filing a privileged resolution to impeach Biden. The two spoke by phone on Tuesday around 4 p.m., and McCarthy asked for her to come and talk to the conference about the resolution before she put it on the floor, he said. But Boebert skipped the GOP Conference meeting on Wednesday morning, so she did not pitch it to her colleagues.
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McCarthy believes that flippantly moving to impeach Biden within two days and doing so outside of regular order is comparable to what House Republicans will be voting to censure Schiff for.
“We’re gonna censure Schiff for actually doing the exact same thing, lying to the American public and taking us through impeachment. We’re going to turn around the next day and try to do the same thing that Schiff did? I just don’t think that’s honest to the American public,” McCarthy said.