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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Us republican hardliners heap pressure on mccarthy despite impeachment push - Caught on Camera

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy McCarthy conceded to weeks of pressure from GOP hardliners and allies of former President Donald Trump by launching the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden [Leah Millis/Reuters]

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces continued pressure from far-right members of his own Republican Party, despite announcing the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden that many of them wanted.

McCarthy will confront a fractured caucus on Wednesday, a day after he said he would direct House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into “allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption” around the Biden family.

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