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Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Democrats boycott hearing on alleged cover-up of Biden’s mental decline

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Dick Durbin, a Democrat senator from Illinois, speaks in Washington DC on 11 June 2025. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

Senate Democrats staged a near-total boycott of a Republican-led Senate hearing on Wednesday on Joe Biden’s mental decline and its alleged cover-up during his presidency, with only the Vermont senator Peter Welch attending the session.

The hearing, titled “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution”, began with the Democratic ranking member, Dick Durbin, launching a counterattack on Donald Trump’s off-kilter comments before walking out of the chamber.

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