White House spending $265K on staff to deflect Hunter Biden probe

The White is reportedly mounting a authorized protection workers in preparation for doable Home GOP subpoenas.
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The White Home is gearing up for a rising military of workers to fend off potential Republican-led probes on every little thing from Hunter Biden to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — and taxpayers are footing the invoice.

Battening down the hatches ought to the GOP regain management of the Home of Representatives within the midterm elections, the White Home is shelling out $265,000 a 12 months in wage for workers whose main portfolio can be to run comms and protection for the administration from an approaching blizzard of subpoenas.

In Might, the White Home poached Richard A. Sauber, the highest lawyer for the Division of Veterans Affairs, to function a “deputy counsel to the president” tasked with dealing with Home oversight probes. Ian Sams, a veteran of Vice President Harris’ failed 2020 presidential marketing campaign, was employed to run official comms for the workforce. White Home information present the 2 males will take dwelling $155,000 and $110,000 respectively.

And the workforce is just anticipated to develop, the Washington Put up reported — indicating that its staffing and operational expenditures will balloon additional.

Republicans have vowed to analyze Hunter Biden’s international enterprise offers.

The White Home is reportedly hiring members from Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential marketing campaign workforce.

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“People deserve transparency from President Biden about his household’s suspicious enterprise dealings. However as an alternative of offering transparency, the White Home is hiring workers on the American taxpayers’ expense to stonewall congressional oversight and accountability.” mentioned Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who's on monitor to chair the Home Oversight Committee subsequent 12 months if Republicans retake the Home.

“Let’s be clear: no quantity of Biden White Home workers or stonewalling will cease Republicans’ quest for transparency and accountability on behalf of the American folks,” he added.

Home Republicans have vowed to analyze every little thing from the origins of coronavirus, to the botched withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. The celebration’s marquee probe will concentrate on Hunter Biden and what connections his father, President Biden, needed to his shady abroad enterprise dealings.

Republicans argue there's enough proof to indict Hunter Biden.

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Rep. James Comer accused the White Home of “stonewalling” on the “American taxpayers’ expense.”

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President Biden has persistently denied any such connections, at the same time as a rising physique of proof has collected to point that isn't the case.