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Republicans hold first Biden impeachment hearing as gov’t shutdown looms

A White House spokesman rejected the impeachment push against US President Joe Biden as 'extreme politics at its worst' [File: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]

Republican legislators in the United States have opened the first hearing of their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, promising to delve into allegations of corruption against the Biden family as a government shutdown looms.

As the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing began on Thursday morning, the Republican chair of the panel, James Comer, said the probe so far “has uncovered a mountain of evidence revealing how Joe Biden has used his public office for his family’s financial gain”.

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