The House of Representatives, which is controlled by Republicans in the United States, recently voted to approve the launch of an investigation into Biden, a Democrat. The survey was launched by Republicans and is expected to last several months. This means that the struggle between the White House and the Republicans has further escalated, and the United States may enter the new year amid bipartisan fighting.
The picture shows the United States **Biden's information** taken at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 24 this year. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Aaron).
Analysts have pointed out that the political struggle between the two parties in the United States and within the parties for their own interests has become increasingly fierce. As the year approaches, the investigation against Biden is bound to have a significant impact on the election, and the phenomenon of political polarization in the United States will become more prominent.
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The vote was held on the 13th, and the House of Representatives officially authorized Republicans to conduct a ** investigation with a vote of 221 in favor and 212 against. The representatives of both parties followed the partisan line in the voting, with all Democrats voting against and Republicans voting in favor, fully reflecting the extreme polarization of both parties in Congress.
The White House and the Democratic Party said that Republicans did not find any evidence that Biden had wrongdoing, and that the vote was a baseless "political farce." Biden issued a statement on the 13th, saying that House Republicans were "focused on attacking" him with lies. Democrats also accused Republicans of "avenging" Trump, a former Republican.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, said that the Republican Party will not predict the outcome, and the formal authorization of the investigation is not based on political considerations, and the investigation team will act in accordance with the law.
Previously, House Republicans had been investigating the business dealings of members of the Biden family for months to find out whether Biden had unproperly profited from the overseas business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden. Despite ethical questions raised by Republicans, no evidence has been found that Biden was corrupt or took bribes during his tenure and previous tenure as deputy secretary.
On December 13, in Washington, USA, Hunter Biden, the son of Biden of the United States, held a press conference in front of Congress. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Aaron).
will become a campaign topic.
According to the U.S. Constitution, the House of Representatives has the power to conduct federal investigations, including and vice-presidents, and is generally the responsibility of a committee of the House of Representatives, and investigators are required to draft and propose articles after the investigation is completed. If more than half of the members of the House of Representatives vote in favor of at least one clause, then the person under investigation is **. The case then goes to the Senate for trial, and if more than two-thirds of the senators vote in favor of the ** clause, the person will be convicted and removed, otherwise he will remain in his original office.
Analysts note that since the US Democrats control the Senate by a narrow margin, it is unlikely that Biden will be convicted and recalled. However, with less than a year to go before the 2024 U.S. election, the case against Biden may become a key topic of ongoing dispute between the two parties, which will have an impact on the election.
Trump is currently the strongest contender for the Republican nomination. He was acquitted by the Senate twice in a row during his previous presidency by the House of Representatives**, which was controlled by Democrats at the time. Trump has been calling for retaliation, urging his Republican allies in Congress to act quickly**Biden.
Clay Ramsay, a researcher at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland in the United States, told Xinhua News Agency that Biden's case will be a factor affecting 2024. For Trump, this would prove that there is nothing special about what he has been subjected to, and that whoever controls the House of Representatives can do so, thus attracting some voters who have not yet decided to vote for him.
* Chaos is rampant.
The House vote is the latest example of the intensification of partisan strife in the United States. In the past year, the US political circles have staged a farce repeatedly, with the two parties attacking and accusing each other on many issues such as the debt ceiling, putting the interests of political parties and groups above the interests of the country, and frequently setting a record for the United States.
This is the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on October 11. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Jie).
Trump has been charged with allegedly mishandling classified documents, among other things, becoming the first former in U.S. history to be criminally indicted. Hunter Biden was indicted on gun and tax-related charges, becoming the first inmate** child in office to be criminally prosecuted.
The House of Representatives of the US Congress has frequent "embarrassing moments". At the beginning of the year, on the opening day of the new Congress, it set a record for the first time in 100 years that it failed to elect a speaker of the House of Representatives in the first round of votingBy the third day, the House of Representatives had held 11 rounds of voting without a winner, the first time in 164 years that there had been such a historic political deadlock. In the end, after *** vote, Kevin McCarthy, then the Republican leader of the House of Representatives, was elected speaker. In early October, McCarthy became the first sitting speaker of the House of Representatives to be removed in U.S. history because of opposition from right-wing conservatives in the party. Since then, due to disputes within the Republican Party, the three candidates for Speaker put forward by the party have failed to be elected in the House of Representatives, resulting in the "paralysis" of the House of Representatives for three consecutive weeks, and it was not until the fourth round of voting that a new Speaker Johnson was elected.
Former U.S. Rep. Greg Chusack of Iowa said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency that Trump has twice encountered **, and Biden is now facing ** investigation, both of which are evidence of increased political polarization in the United States. Opinion polls over the past few years have shown that the American public is generally not optimistic about the current situation. The aftermath of the pandemic and persistent inflation, coupled with increased political polarization between the two parties and ineffective governance, have pushed public confidence in the pandemic to the bottom.
Ramsey also believes that over the past decade, American people's confidence in ** has remained low, and only a small percentage of Americans believe that ** will do the right thing most of the time.
An analytical article in the Washington Post, titled "Congressional Chaos Highlights the Failures of the American System," pointed out sharply that the American political system is on a dysfunctional path.
*: Xinhua News Agency Guangzhou** New Flower City Editor: Su Wanqian.