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White House Braces for Barrage of GOP Inquiries

May 14, 2022 at 6:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Biden’s legal team is laying the groundwork to defend against an expected onslaught of oversight investigations by congressional Republicans, should they take one or both chambers in the midterm elections — including preparing for the possibility of impeachment as payback for the two impeachments of President Donald Trump,” the New York Times reports.

“As part of those preparations, Mr. Biden and his White House counsel, Dana Remus, have hired Richard Sauber, a longtime white-collar defense lawyer who is now the top lawyer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, to oversee responses to subpoenas and other oversight efforts.”

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