Senate Republicans are ready to fire up their Hunter Biden probe

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published 13 May 2020

Senate Republicans will have their Hunter Biden investigation, coronavirus be darned.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee will vote next week on whether to subpoena Democratic public relations firm Blue Star Strategies, committee Chair Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) said Wednesday. It'll mark the resumption of the committee's probe into former Vice President Joe Biden's son and the Obama administration.

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"We're in the middle of a public health and economic crisis, but instead of holding oversight hearings about testing, PPE, or bringing in the FEMA administrator, Senate Republicans are choosing to pursue diversionary, partisan conspiracy theories to prop up President Trump," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said upon hearing about the probe. "It's not related at all to the crisis and so why are we spending time on it?" Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) asked CNN.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.

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