Biden’s Brewing Dilemma: Whether To Comply With an Expected Avalanche of GOP Subpoenas
The president may be forced to decide whether to borrow a page from his predecessor’s playbook and ignore congressional subpoenas and be pilloried as a hypocrite, or comply and be publicly embarrassed by his antagonists.
With Republicans promising to bombard the White House with subpoenas after they take over the House in January, the Biden administration faces a dilemma of its own doing — comply with the subpoenas, as it demanded of the preceding president, or ignore them and risk being labeled hypocrites.
Republicans poised to step into leadership roles in the new Congress said last week that they aim to launch a series of investigations into President Biden’s tenure so far, targeting everything from the immigration chaos at the border to the calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan to politicization of the Department of Justice. Their most vexatious inquiries, however, will likely revolve around the president’s grown son, Hunter Biden, and his dealings with foreign governments.
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