biden officials, homeland security secretary alejandra mayorkas, and even president biden himself before congress ahead of the july 4th recess, and a series of republicans began to impeach them over allegations that the justice department improperly interfered in the criminal investigation into hunter biden. and even mccarthy has taken a pretty measured approach to efforts has signaled that he s open to impeaching garlic if these allegations improve but the big picture here on these investigations is that we are closing in on a period when all of the oxygen in washington will soon be focused on the 2024 presidential elections and republicans want to use this what they argue is widespread politicization of the government into the spotlight and damage democrats as much a possible as we head into election season. alina tran, cnn washington. stomach tens of millions americans are raising for
the good news is, in the senate, democrats and republicans are working together on the appropriations committee, to fund the government. they have come to agreement on a whole bunch of different subcommittees of the appropriations committee, and hopefully, we can have a bipartisan agreement that avoids a shutdown. reporter: congress has until september 30th to pass a budget for next year, but they are only scheduled to be in session for three weeks until they break, yet again, for all of august. these next few weeks will be critical for the negotiations. a lot of tension will also be on the house and litigations, and potential impeachment efforts against top biden officials like just a secretary mayorkas, and even president biden himself, as before the recess a series of republicans began threatening to impeach garland over allegations from whistleblowers that the justice department improperly interfered in the criminal investigation into hunter biden. even mccarthy, who has so far
the agenda as well, right? we re talking about potential impeachment efforts, house investigates and even the potential impact all this might have an impact. and even president biden are being discussed within the house republican conference. with regard to merrick garland, before they broke for july recess, a lot of republicans were threatening to impeach garland over allegations from the irs whistle blowers are that the justice department improperly interfered in the probe of hunter biden. and president biden said he ll be open to impeaching garland in this proves true. we are heading into a period