The person who alerted U.S. lawmakers last month to the existence of an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> record that allegedly shows that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a criminal bribery scheme is a respected FBI source that has been used by the agency for years.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/person-alleging-biden-criminal-bribery-scheme-is-a-highly-credible-fbi-source-used-since-obama-admin-source" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that a person familiar with the matter said the source has been &#8220;consistently reviewed by the FBI&#8221; and has been &#8220;found to be highly credible.&#8221;
The source has been used in multiple investigations dating back to the Obama-era.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said this week that FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed that the file containing the allegations does exist.
&#8220;Today, FBI Director Wray confirmed the existence of the FD-1023 form alleging then-Vice President Biden engaged in a criminal bribery scheme with a foreign national,&#8221; Comer said. &#8220;However, Director Wray did not commit to producing the documents subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.&#8221;
&#8220;While Director Wray &#8211; after a month of refusing to even acknowledge that the form existed &#8211; has offered to allow us to see the documents in person at FBI headquarters, we have been clear that anything short of producing these documents to the House Oversight Committee is not in compliance with the subpoena,&#8221; he added. &#8220;If the FBI fails to hand over the FD-1023 form as required by the subpoena, the House Oversight Committee will begin contempt of Congress proceedings.&#8221;
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🚨On my call with FBI Director Wray, the FBI finally confirmed the existence of the FD-1023 form alleging then-VP Joe Biden engaged in a criminal bribery scheme.
Anything short of producing these documents to <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOPoversight</a> is not in compliance with my subpoena.
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Comer and Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) will review the document in a sensitive compartmented information facility, known as a SCIF.
An Oversight Committee spokesperson told The Daily Wire that Comer will &#8220;receive a briefing from the FBI and review the document on Monday.&#8221;
&#8220;Chairman Comer has been clear that anything short of producing the FD-1023 form to the House Oversight Committee is not compliance with his subpoena,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;This unclassified record contains pages of details that need to be investigated further by the House Oversight Committee.&#8221;

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The Chicago City Council approved $51 million in funding for housing and food for illegal immigrants as a surge continues on the southern border. 
The funding measure, which <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/migrants-in-chicago-city-council-meeting-migrant-housing-news/13322920/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> Wednesday by a vote of 34-13, will go towards housing many of the 10,000 foreign nationals who’ve arrived in Chicago since August 2022. 
Numerous black residents criticized the measure, instead calling for more funding to be directed towards Chicago’s black community. Carolyn Ruff, who <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/black-residents-torch-chicago-lawmakers-funding-house-migrants-enough#:~:text=Tensions%20flared%20during%20the%20Wednesday,Texas%20Republican%20Gov.%20Greg%20Abbott." target="_blank" rel="noopener">led</a> a “Black Lives Matter” chant, argued that &#8220;We need to take care of our community, we need to take care of our Black community.”
&#8220;We need to allocate some of this money for our Black children, for the Black community, we have not gotten anything for our community,” she went on to say.
Andre Smith, the CEO of Chicago Against Violence, was one of the many residents to speak out against the funding measure, arguing to the council that the money should instead be used to provide black Chicagoans with reparations payments. &#8220;I demand you to have the same passion and urgency to pass the City of Chicago Reparations Ordinance and also give us an office for Black Americans, just like the new Americans.&#8221;
&#8220;We didn’t have the privilege to cross the border. We came over here being raped, stolen, beaten, chained in the bottom of ships, and you give migrants $51 million?” 
Meanwhile, Alderman David Moore of the 17th Ward tried to <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2023/5/31/23743981/migrant-crisis-funds-chicago-immigrants-city-council-vote-homeless" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calm tensions</a>, saying, “Fifteen percent of my residents are Latinos. It hurts my heart as I hear people trying to make this a Black and Brown issue.&#8221;
Several attendees shouted each other down during the meeting, with one man even getting escorted out of the council chamber.
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Meanwhile, Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-city-council-approves-51-million-help-migrants-sent-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> that &#8220;Chicago is facing a humanitarian crisis as individuals and families continue to be sent here and other Democratic-led cities across the country without regard for their well-being.” 
&#8220;My administration will do everything in our power to support these new arrivals as they work to rebuild their lives in the U.S. while still upholding our commitments to the residents of Chicago,” he added. “This appropriation is critical to support our efforts to provide housing and services in the immediate future.”
Estimates have found that illegal immigration costs United States taxpayers approximately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taxpayers-shell-out-151-billion-each-year-due-to-illegal-immigration-analysis-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$151 billion</a> every year.
Roughly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-app-releases-almost-80000-foreign-nationals-into-u-s-in-last-four-months" target="_blank" rel="noopener">80,000 foreign nationals</a> have been let into the United States through the CBP One app, an online process that allows them to set up appointments to apply for asylum at a port of entry along the southern border. Additionally, approximately <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/1-5m-gotaways-have-slipped-into-the-us-under-biden-three-times-as-many-as-during-3-years-of-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1.5 million</a> gotaways have entered the United States during the Biden administration.
Meanwhile, a recent <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hosting-migrants-poll-2023-05-21/">poll</a> from CBS News found that 63% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of the United States border, while just 37% say that they approve.

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Top lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee will review an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> document containing allegations that President Joe Biden received a multi-million-dollar bribe from an “adversarial country” on Monday.
Committee chairman Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Comer</a> (R-KY) and ranking member Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jamie-raskin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamie Raskin</a> (D-MD) will review the document in a secured facility, known as the SCIF, for reviewing sensitive intelligence. The document will not be handed over to Congress, despite recent reports <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1664648263897698304" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggesting</a> otherwise.
“Chairman Comer will receive a briefing from the FBI and review the document on Monday. Chairman Comer has been clear that anything short of producing the FD-1023 form to the House Oversight Committee is not compliance with his subpoena. This unclassified record contains pages of details that need to be investigated further by the House Oversight Committee,” an Oversight Committee spokesperson told The Daily Wire in a statement.
Congressional Republicans, led by Comer, have threatened to hold the FBI and Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena for the 1023 form. Comer and his committee have led an investigation into allegations of influence peddling and corrupt dealings involving members of Biden&#8217;s family.
Wray has said that releasing the form, though unclassified, risks revealing sensitive FBI sources and intelligence gathering techniques. The FBI head <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-to-begin-to-hold-wray-in-contempt-as-fbi-refuses-to-produce-biden-document-to-oversight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> with Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Wednesday and offered the lawmakers the chance to review the form in question, but refused to turn it over.
“Today, FBI Director Wray confirmed the existence of the FD-1023 form alleging then-Vice President Biden engaged in a criminal bribery scheme with a foreign national,” Comer said in a statement after the call with Wray. “However, Director Wray did not commit to producing the documents subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.”
“While Director Wray — after a month of refusing to even acknowledge that the form existed — has offered to allow us to see the documents in person at FBI headquarters, we have been clear that anything short of producing these documents to the House Oversight Committee is not in compliance with the subpoena,” he said.
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The FBI said in a statement that Wray is trying to accommodate the lawmakers’ request while “protecting the confidentiality and safety of sources and important investigative sensitives.”
Little is known about the 1023 form. In an interview on Newsmax on Thursday, Comer said that the form contains allegations that Biden, when he served as vice president in the Obama administration, accepted a $5 million bribe from an “adversarial country.” He said that the country was not China, Romania, or Ukraine, which the committee has already uncovered Biden family financial ties to.
“The most reputable country that the Biden family was taking money from was China, if that tells you anything,” Comer said.
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BREAKING: Rep. James Comer says the alleged Biden bribery scheme document shows the then-VP received $5 million from a U.S. adversary.
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President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-falls-on-stage-at-air-force-graduation-ceremony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kicked</a> off the first day of &#8220;<a href="https://www.agingresources.com/june-is-world-elder-abuse-awareness-month/#:~:text=June%20is%20World%20Elder%20Abuse%20Awareness%20Month!" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Elder Abuse Awareness Month</a>&#8221; by tripping on what appeared to be a flat surface at the Air Force Academy&#8217;s graduation ceremony.
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BREAKING: Biden takes a big fall on stage just now at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation <a href="https://t.co/GxkMbpyoNo">pic.twitter.com/GxkMbpyoNo</a>
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If any good comes out of the incident, perhaps it is that we can go over just a few of the signs of what elder abuse looks like. It can affect any senior citizen — even the commander-in-chief, apparently.
&#8220;Elder abuse can include physical, sexual, emotional, neglect, and financial exploitation,&#8221; <a href="https://seniorcareinc.org/elder-abuse-awareness-month-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to SeniorCare.com. &#8220;Another form of elder abuse is self-neglect.&#8221;
All of those forms of abuse — except possibly sexual (we don&#8217;t dare ask) — present themselves in the Biden presidency thus far.
As an 80-year-old president, Biden&#8217;s own aides have said that long presidential trips tire him out for days. Reports indicate he is only functional between the hours of 10:00 a.m. Eastern through 4:00 p.m. Eastern — even though his job requires a 24/7-365 dedication.
Biden&#8217;s fall on Thursday wasn&#8217;t the only sign of physical or mental confusion displayed at the Air Force&#8217;s event. For example, when &#8220;Hail to the Chief&#8221; started playing, he needed a shove to get going.
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Off you go, Joe! <a href="https://t.co/HiHJbO8yq2">pic.twitter.com/HiHJbO8yq2</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1664302475317325824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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He also needed directions once he made it to the stage:
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Biden needs directions to find the stage — then again when he&#39;s on the stage <a href="https://t.co/ItRXow6dt0">pic.twitter.com/ItRXow6dt0</a>
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And then there&#8217;s the emotional exploitation.
Biden is often put in front of situations that cause him to snap or become frustrated. Like that time on the campaign trail when he challenged a voter to a push-up contest. As president, he is often snippy with reporters. He also constantly barks in anger at full volume about &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-soul-of-joe-bidens-america-is-dark-as-hell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MAGA Republicans</a>&#8221; and how his administration &#8220;beat pharma this year!&#8221;
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Biden yells: &quot;We beat [big] Pharma this year!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/UZA1GKPcof">pic.twitter.com/UZA1GKPcof</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1566856057921880064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s unclear what he meant by that considering <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/31/pfizer-revenue-covid-19-vaccines-commercialized-00080373" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pfizer</a> and <a href="https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2023/Moderna-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Fiscal-Year-2022-Financial-Results-and-Provides-Business-Updates/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moderna</a> raked in billions thanks to the COVID vaccine Biden effectively tried to force all Americans to take.
Additionally, you can hear the sadness in Biden&#8217;s voice, too, when he&#8217;s finally allowed to speak to the American people.
For example, on &#8220;Bring Your Kid To Work Day&#8221; at the White House, Biden lamented to a group, &#8220;And by the way, the one thing I thought when I got to be president, I’d get to give orders. But I take more orders than I ever did.&#8221;
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Sometimes Joe Biden tells the truth:
“The one thing I thought when I got to be president? I&#39;d get to give orders. But I take more orders than I ever did.”
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Again, perhaps another sign of exploitation is that he is constantly being bossed around, never able to make a decision for himself. You might think that Biden&#8217;s son Hunter, an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/struggling-artist-hunter-biden-asks-for-lower-child-support-payments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged struggling artist</a>, would put a stop to all of this.
After all, in public, Hunter has helped clarify questions from children for his father on overseas diplomatic trips:
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Hunter Biden steps in when Joe Biden doesn&#39;t understand the question he&#39;s being asked<a href="https://t.co/rvJNXPwARo">pic.twitter.com/rvJNXPwARo</a>
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But, behind the scenes, Hunter has allegedly been taking advantage of his father&#8217;s &#8220;good&#8221; name through overseas business contracts — something of which Biden says he knows nothing about.
There&#8217;s that financial exploitation, with the old man being kept in the dark.  Those closest to senior citizens are so often the same crooks taking advantage of them.
Where is Jill? She&#8217;s the one who <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/01/jill-biden-joe-biden-reelection-00093726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convinced</a> him to keep going, according to reports. Another potential sign of ill-treatment for the president.
This elder abuse awareness month, beware of the signs. If you&#8217;re still not sure of them, just pay close attention to how Biden is being handled by his family and staff.
Won&#8217;t anybody put an end to this maltreatment?
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The U.S. Senate passed a Republican-led bill on Thursday that would put an end to President Joe Biden&#8217;s plan to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/student-debt-cancellation-may-cause-some-disenrolled-college-students-to-return-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancel massive amounts of student debt</a> — and immediately lift the freeze on student loan payments and interest.
The Senate passed the measure on Thursday with a 52-46 vote — mostly along party lines, but Senators John Tester (D-MT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) joined Republicans and tipped the scales in their favor. Two other Democratic Senators — Michael Bennet of Colorado and Mark Warner of Virginia — did not cast a vote.
&#8220;@POTUS&#8216; student loan socialism would shift hundreds of billions of dollars in debt from high earners who chose to incur it onto American taxpayers who did not,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said. “But thanks to the leadership of @SenBillCassidy, @JohnCornyn, and @SenJoniErnst, the Senate has a chance to stop this.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>&#39; student loan socialism would shift hundreds of billions of dollars in debt from high earners who chose to incur it onto American taxpayers who did not. But thanks to the leadership of <a href="https://twitter.com/SenBillCassidy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenBillCassidy</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnCornyn</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJoniErnst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenJoniErnst</a>, the Senate has a chance to stop this.
&mdash; Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeaderMcConnell/status/1664292591804854273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The House passed the bill last week, but as POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/01/senate-repeals-bidens-student-debt-relief-00099682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Thursday, neither the House nor the Senate passed the legislation by a wide enough margin to override the veto that will certainly come from the White House.
&#8220;Unfortunately, the president is guaranteed to veto the measure, and there are not enough Democrats in the House and Senate to be willing to override his veto,&#8221; Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) said.
Biden&#8217;s student loan cancellation program offers debt relief of up to $10,000 for borrowers who made less than $125,000 in 2020 and 2021 — or for married couples who made a combined total of less than $250,000 in that time. Borrowers who received Pell Grants are eligible for up to $20,000 in loan forgiveness.
The plan is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/politics/student-loan-forgiveness-biden-senate-vote/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently awaiting a ruling</a> from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-prepares-to-hear-arguments-about-bidens-student-debt-cancellation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> — which will likely come in late June or early July — to determine whether or not it can be allowed to take effect at all.
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Regardless of the high court&#8217;s decision, the debt ceiling deal that was just recently reached also includes a provision that would end the freeze on payments and interest — a move that the White House agreed to in part because they said it was always the plan to have borrowers resume their regular payments.

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A new website unveiling over 10,000 photos from the infamous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> laptop, which aimed to bring &#8220;truth and transparency&#8221; to America&#8217;s first family, crashed shortly after launching on Thursday.
Garrett Ziegler, the founder of the nonprofit Marco Polo, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nearly-10k-photos-hunter-bidens-laptop-hit-web-truth-transparency?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News that it took engineers on the site — <a href="https://bidenlaptopmedia.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BidenLaptopMedia.com</a> — &#8220;a couple of months&#8221; to redact obscene content from thousands of photos spanning from 2008 to 2019, including images exposing Hunter&#8217;s genitals and multiple nude photos of his deceased brother Beau Biden&#8217;s wife, Hallie Biden.
&#8220;The number one thing we&#8217;re about … is truth and transparency,&#8221; Ziegler said. &#8220;If the American people want to know what their first family is like, they&#8217;re going to get it. And we&#8217;re not going to be taking out photos that paint the Bidens in a good light.&#8221;
However, reports claimed the website servers continued to crash by Thursday afternoon after thousands of people witnessed the photos.
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They Keep Crashing The Servers Showing Pictures From The Hunter Biden Laptop! Servers going in and out but all the pictures are up and hundreds of thousands of people have already seen them. WE MUST NOT LET THEM SILENCE US! Post Screenshots From His Laptop Under This Tweet:
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Fox News claimed Ziegler provided two never-before-seen images from the laptop, showing &#8220;an array of drugs and a condom wrapper sitting on a table … from a text message conversation Hunter had with Hallie Biden&#8221; and the president&#8217;s son with his then-lover Zoe Kestan in 2018.
Other material redacted in the photos included private information such as Social Security numbers, banking information, and credit card numbers.
Ziegler said the photo project would display images chronologically and cover a &#8220;large swath&#8221; of the first family&#8217;s life while claiming the website showcasing the Biden family is not a &#8220;hit job.&#8221;
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&#8220;We&#8217;re not Republican activists. None of us are registered Republicans,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In fact, I loved and still love Trump precisely because he wasn&#8217;t a standard Republican. So this is not a hit job. We&#8217;re going to keep all the photos that paint the Bidens in a good light and keep all the photos that paint the Bidens in a bad light.”
&#8220;The American people can judge for themselves what they think about their first family through this,&#8221; Ziegler added.
Marco Polo&#8217;s official Twitter account said in an update Thursday afternoon the non-profit currently has seven servers running the website, which the company said drew &#8220;massive amount of attention&#8221; the organization anticipated.
&#8220;In the first hour, we served over half-a-million hits smoothly, then the attacks began, and haven&#8217;t let up all day,&#8221; the non-profit <a href="https://twitter.com/marcopolo501c3/status/1664373965803122688?s=46&amp;t=_AI6kONxv1BF72wEW3cTOA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. &#8220;We have no intention of going anywhere, as this site — like <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://t.co/j7qsBtNI2K" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">http://BidenLaptopEmails.com</a> — is a historic record of the Biden Laptop, and it will be kept up and running until the end of time.&#8221;
Ziegler&#8217;s non-profit also hosts the <a href="https://bidenlaptopemails.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BidenLaptopEmails.com</a> website, which publicized over 120,000 emails from the abandoned laptop.
The continued laptop exposure comes after Hunter Biden faces ongoing investigations from federal prosecutors and lawmakers into foreign business dealings and allegations of lying about tax fraud and gun purchases.

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President Joe Biden fell on stage at the the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation ceremony at Falcon Stadium on Thursday in Colorado Springs.
Video of the incident showed Biden, 80, shaking the hand of one of the graduates before turning on stage, taking a step, and falling to the floor of the stage.
Several officials rushed in to help him stand back up.
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Biden has repeatedly struggled with falling throughout his presidency dating back to March 2021 when he fell several times while trying to walk up the stairs to board Air Force One.
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Joe Biden just fell 3 times in a row trying to go up the stairs to Air Force One <a href="https://t.co/gTUTckUH32">pic.twitter.com/gTUTckUH32</a>
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Biden fell last June while riding his bike near his Rehoboth Beach home in Delaware.
Biden had stopped to talk to some people that were gathered on the road cheering him on and, when he stopped, he fell over the side the bicycle.
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My friend just filmed Joe Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> falling off his bike no joke. Just happened at Rehoboth Beach 😂 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JoeBiden?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JoeBiden</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BidenIsAFailure?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BidenIsAFailure</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RehobothBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RehobothBeach</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Trump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Trump</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EpicFail?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EpicFail</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Biden?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Biden</a> <a href="https://t.co/cVMycEwuI0">pic.twitter.com/cVMycEwuI0</a>
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Biden has also stumbled in February and March of this year while again trying to climb the steps of Air Force One.
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President Joe Biden tripped and caught himself as he boarded Air Force One in Poland. The President is now on his way back to the White House. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/POTUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#POTUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GeraldFord?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GeraldFord</a> <a href="https://t.co/LEpcdmQU1R">pic.twitter.com/LEpcdmQU1R</a>
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Watch out for the stairs! <a href="https://t.co/Qo7faNqRfS">pic.twitter.com/Qo7faNqRfS</a>
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This week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden cut a deal to raise the debt limit. The breakthrough came after three months of Biden pledging not to even negotiate over the debt limit. Instead, Biden was forced to concede to a 1% cap on increases for non-military spending, a cutback on IRS funding, a clawback of some unspent COVID allocations, and the addition of work requirements for some federal aid. The compromise deal was indeed far less than House Republicans had demanded, as Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) tweeted, “After factoring in a small cut to discretionary spending over the next 2 yrs, we are still talking about ~$6T more or less in spending bc of large increases in spending elsewhere….Govt grew massively over the past 3 years. This growth was supposed to be emergency funding only during COVID. During this time, govt grew 40% or by $2 trillion from 2019 to 2023. We went from spending just over $4T to spending just over $6T.”
Every word of that critique is true. Compared to conservative ideals, the compromise bill is indeed a flaming bag of fiscal manure. But conservative ideals weren’t on the table. Biden is the president. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — thanks in large part to the tender 2020 ministrations of President Trump in the Georgia Senate runoffs and his further interference in the 2022 Senate races in Georgia, Arizona, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania — is still the Senate majority leader. This means that Republicans were never going to get a big win on budgetary matters.
For that matter, Republicans couldn’t even get a big win on budgetary matters from 2016 to 2018, when they controlled both houses of Congress and Trump was actually president. In fact, Trump campaigned in 2016 against changes to entitlement programs, which represent the biggest driver of our national spending addiction — some 62% of federal spending annually. Combine that spending with 10% of our spending on net interest and another 13% or so on defense spending, and the discretionary outlays at issue represent under $1 trillion. That’s a lot of money, to be sure, but making serious cuts to that number would still put our budget in the $5 trillion range.
The reality is that our budgetary debates are generally about shifting deck chairs on the fiscal Titanic. By 2053, we will be dedicating in excess of 21% of our national budget to debt service alone. Mandatory spending will constitute 58% of our spending. We aren’t going to cut our way out of this problem by targeting discretionary spending in the main.
But nobody will touch the real drivers of our budgetary bloat and economic stagnation — Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. To do so would risk the wrath of entrenched interests in the United States. So instead, we’ll simply increase the size and scope of federal spending, placing an unsustainable burden on our economy, then eventually mandating vastly increased taxes or serious austerity measures. There is no third path forward.
Our politicians know this. But they’re in the business of kicking cans down the road while posturing over the placement of the deck chairs. The iceberg looms, but their re-election efforts rely almost completely on ignoring its presence as we bear down, full speed, on our fiscal doom.

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The U.S. House of Representatives passed the debt ceiling compromise <a href="https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20230529/BILLS-118hrPIH-fiscalresponsibility.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> on Wednesday that suspends the $31 trillion debt limit until a lame-duck session after the 2024 presidential election.
After an hour of debate, lawmakers advanced House Speaker Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s (R-CA) Fiscal Responsibility Act, a debt ceiling deal made with President Joe Biden that caused 71 Republicans and 46 Democrats to oppose the legislation. The final vote was 314 to 117 — 149 Republicans joining 165 Democrats.
&#8220;We&#8217;re finally bending the curve on discretionary spending because of this bill, and we&#8217;re doing it while at the same time raising our national defense and our veterans fully funded, with Social Security and Medicare preserved,&#8221; McCarthy said in a speech on the House floor, adding, &#8220;That is a major victory.&#8221;
After weeks of negotiations, Biden and McCarthy reached an &#8220;agreement in principle&#8221; over Memorial weekend.
Biden said the passage is a &#8220;critical step forward&#8221; to prevent a first-ever national economic default while touting the agreement&#8217;s Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid protections.
&#8220;Tonight, the House took a critical step forward to prevent a first-ever default and protect our country&#8217;s hard-earned and historic economic recovery,&#8221; Biden said, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/debt-ceiling-vote-live-updates-house-will-take-biden-mccarthy-plan-ton-rcna86870" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>. &#8220;This budget agreement is a bipartisan compromise. Neither side got everything it wanted. That&#8217;s the responsibility of governing.&#8221;
&#8220;It protects critical programs that millions of hardworking families, students, and veterans count on,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I have been clear that the only path forward is a bipartisan compromise that can earn the support of both parties. This agreement meets that test.&#8221;
Leading the GOP charge against the compromise, which would suspend the debt limit until January 2025 in exchange for various restraints on spending, was the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which views the agreement as being too watered down and weak on spending cuts.
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&#8220;No one sent us here to borrow an additional $4 trillion to get absolutely nothing in return,&#8221; Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/us/politics/debt-ceiling-house-vote.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said.
The Congressional Budget Office <a href="https://abc7.com/debt-ceiling-vote-house-rules-committee-time/13323085/#:~:text=The%2099%2Dpage%20bill%20would,default%20while%20limiting%20government%20spending.&amp;text=The%20House%20voted%20to%20pass,in%20averting%20a%20potential%20default." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said the debt would reduce by $1.5 trillion over the decade under the spending restrictions.
The bill now heads to the Senate, the members of which expect to take some immediate procedural steps. Biden has urged lawmakers to pass the bill before the U.S. defaults on its debt on June 5.

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When it comes to immigration, President Joe Biden should take some advice from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/catholic-church" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roman Catholic Church</a>. In short, the Church does not support open borders and offers reasonable guidelines for how a wealthy country should handle foreigners seeking to cross the border — legally or not.
Under Biden, the U.S. border has become a sieve. Millions have flooded in and have since been dispersed throughout the country. Cities such as <a href="https://www.facebook.com/1435071773455316/posts/the-alert-also-warned-american-citizens-not-to-travel-to-russia-and-that-those-a/3311275439168264/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Portland, Maine,</a> and New York City end up shouldering the burden of this emergency. States such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youngkin-to-deploy-virginia-national-guard-troops-to-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas</a> are forced to send National Guardsmen to the border to help secure it.
Meanwhile, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-reacts-to-debt-limit-deal-hits-both-democrats-and-republicans-over-spending-habits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal government remains trillions of dollars in debt</a>, its people are suffering from heavy inflation, and a <a href="https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives/us-housing-shortage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">housing crisis continues practically unabated</a>. Public schools are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/the-biggest-bully-in-school-why-public-education-is-failing-in-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failing</a>. Opioids are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-democrat-senator-took-thousands-of-dollars-in-donations-from-pharma-companies-at-center-of-opioid-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killing thousands</a> every month. These problems and others that plague the United States have existed before Biden&#8217;s inauguration. All of them, in one way or another, are exacerbated by mass immigration.
Yet, in spite of the malaise, Democrats and soft Republicans argue that the U.S. has a moral obligation to welcome those who cross the border. They argue it will help us. In fact, Catholic politicians like former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi often <a href="https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-remarks-at-the-national-hispanic-prayer-breakfast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cite their faith in God</a> as why the U.S. should welcome in millions — even as millions of Americans struggle.
So what does the Church say? Per the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/catechism/cat_view.cfm?recnum=6038" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book that summarizes</a> Church doctrine, &#8220;The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin.&#8221;
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2241 The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he…
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For the reasons listed above, as well as others, it can be argued that &#8220;the extent&#8221; to which the U.S. is able has already been met. Furthermore, the Church also allows countries to set standards, laws, and regulations regarding immigration.
&#8220;Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants&#8217; duties toward their country of adoption,&#8221; the Church says.
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What constitutes the &#8220;common good?&#8221; Well, again, going off the Church, the common good is &#8220;the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.&#8221;
If allowed, mass legal and illegal immigration can hamper the ability of America&#8217;s poorest to &#8220;reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily&#8221; by <a href="https://cis.org/Report/Wages-Immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">driving down wages</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs1tPWgKVag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">driving up other costs</a>.
The Church also has requirements for immigrants who arrive in new countries as well.
&#8220;Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws, and to assist in carrying civic burdens,&#8221; the Church noted.
So, if your first act is breaking the law by crossing the border illegally — then you are not respecting America&#8217;s laws.
Of course, the U.S. has a separation of church and state. Not everything in the Catechism would constitute wise policy-making. Yet on the issue of immigration, it&#8217;s right on the money.
Conflating this problem is that many Catholic non-profits and non-governmental organizations are facilitating the illegal crossing. Those groups are often given taxpayer money to do so. As Lora Ries of the Heritage Foundation <a href="https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/biden-shovels-millions-nonprofits-aid-his-open-border-schemes-congress-must" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>, Congress must cut off that cash flow to help make a dent in illegal immigration. The Biden administration could also stop using these groups to effectively &#8220;smuggle illegal aliens the final miles of their journey.&#8221;
Unfortunately, there&#8217;s about as much of a chance of Biden becoming pro-life as there is Biden suddenly curbing immigration. God help us all.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Retired Admiral <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reporter-tries-to-get-john-kirby-to-say-tuckers-show-was-russian-propaganda-he-fails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kirby</a> appeared to be left speechless during a Wednesday briefing, stumbling through his response to a poll indicating that a majority of Americans believe President Joe Biden was involved in his family&#8217;s alleged corrupt business dealings.
Kirby, who previously served as the Pentagon&#8217;s spokesperson and is currently Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council, was clearly blindsided by the question from New York Post reporter Steven Nelson — who referenced a recent <a href="https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/HHP_May2023_KeyResults.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard-Harris Poll</a> indicating that over half of all Americans (53%) and 25% of Democrats believe that President Biden &#8220;was involved with his son in an illegal influence peddling scheme&#8221; while he was vice president.
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Reporter: &quot;What do you say to the majority of Americans who believe that the president himself is corrupt?&quot; 
Biden’s spokesman John Kirby: &quot;WOW … There is nothing to these claims.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/LH8KUnQ4Qt">pic.twitter.com/LH8KUnQ4Qt</a>
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&#8220;There have been many developments in investigations into the First Family&#8217;s international business dealings recently,&#8221; Nelson began, referencing the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-admits-file-on-biden-criminal-bribery-scheme-is-real-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI file</a> on Biden allegedly taking a bribe from an as-yet-unnamed foreign nation in addition to the recent developments regarding the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irs-whistleblowers-team-getting-kicked-from-hunter-biden-probe-lawyers-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IRS</a> whistleblowers.
&#8220;Amid all this, there was a Harvard-Harris poll that found that 53% of the public, including a fourth of Democrats believe, quote, &#8216;Joe Biden was involved with his son in an illegal influence peddling scheme,’” Nelson continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s of course evidence the president interacted with his relatives&#8217; associates from China, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine — so what do you say to the majority of Americans who believe that the president is himself corrupt?&#8221;
Kirby took a long pause, shaking his head — meanwhile, another White House spokesperson next to the podium could be heard whispering in disbelief, &#8220;Jesus &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;The president — the president — the president has spoken to this,&#8221; Kirby appeared to stumble through his response after nearly ten seconds had elapsed, repeating once again, &#8220;The president has spoken to this, there&#8217;s nothing to these claims.&#8221;
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Kirby went on to state that, at least as far as the IRS whistleblowers were concerned, reporters would have to go to the FBI for more information.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> Director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christopher-wray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Wray</a> confirmed a file containing allegations of a <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/comer-and-grassley-on-fbi-failing-to-comply-with-subpoena-deadline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;criminal bribery scheme&#8221;</a> involving President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> really does exist, a top Republican lawmaker announced on Wednesday.
In a statement released after having a discussion with Wray, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> Oversight Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Comer</a> (R-KY) said the FBI leader offered to allow lawmakers to see the documents at FBI headquarters, but won&#8217;t commit to giving them to Congress — a clear sign that their standoff over a subpoena is far from over.
&#8220;We have been clear that anything short of producing these documents to the House Oversight Committee is not in compliance with the subpoena,&#8221; Comer said. &#8220;If the FBI fails to hand over the FD-1023 form as required by the subpoena, the House Oversight Committee will begin contempt of Congress proceedings.&#8221;
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🚨On my call with FBI Director Wray, the FBI finally confirmed the existence of the FD-1023 form alleging then-VP Joe Biden engaged in a criminal bribery scheme.
Anything short of producing these documents to <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOPoversight</a> is not in compliance with my subpoena.
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In a statement, the FBI said that during the call on Wednesday, Wray &#8220;offered to provide the Committee’s Chairman and Ranking Member an opportunity to review information responsive to the subpoena in a secure manner to accommodate the committee, while protecting the confidentiality and safety of sources and important investigative sensitivities.&#8221;
&#8220;The FBI has continually demonstrated its commitment to working with the Committee to accommodate its request, from scheduling briefings and calls to now allowing the Chair to review information in person,&#8221; the bureau added. &#8220;The FBI remains committed to cooperating with the Committee in good faith.&#8221;
A congressional source told The Daily Wire that Comer intends to view the file &#8220;in camera&#8221; at the FBI, which means there <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/politics/comer-biden-family-bank-activity-reports/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will be restrictions</a>, although the chairman insisted that does not mean the subpoena will be fulfilled.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the Oversight Committee, said in a statement that he spoke with Wray in a separate call.
“Director Wray informed me that the FBI has agreed to accommodate the Committee’s request by making the document sought by Chairman Comer available for in person review,&#8221; <a href="https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-s-statement-following-call-with-fbi-director-chris-wray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Raskin said</a>. &#8220;The FBI will also provide context on the Trump Justice Department’s steps to follow up on the unsubstantiated, second-hand claims contained in this tip.&#8221;
Before now, Comer said the FBI would not acknowledge the existence of the file he sought. However, the FBI did issue warnings of the dangers of releasing unvetted information from confidential human sources that gets recorded by agents in FD-1023 forms.
&#8220;The FBI’s mission is to protect the American people. Releasing confidential source information could potentially jeopardize investigations and put lives at risk,&#8221; the bureau told The Daily Wire.
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Comer and his Senate colleague Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have said that whistleblower disclosures led them to <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/comer-and-grassley-on-fbi-failing-to-comply-with-subpoena-deadline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believe</a> the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI have an unclassified FD-1023 form describing the alleged scheme involving Biden, dating back to his time as vice president, and a foreign national. Comer <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-grassley-blast-fbi-for-refusing-to-provide-subpoenaed-record-alleging-then-vp-biden-engaged-in-a-bribery-scheme/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initially sent the subpoena</a> on May 3 with a May 10 deadline, but later extended it to Tuesday.
This particular FD-1023 form may reference some variant of &#8220;five million&#8221; and &#8220;June 30, 2020,&#8221; Comer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-puts-dollar-amount-on-alleged-biden-bribery-scheme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in a letter to Wray last week</a>. &#8220;These terms relate to the date on the FD-1023 form and its reference to the amount of money the foreign national allegedly paid to receive the desired policy outcome,&#8221; he added.
Further details about what the alleged scheme may entail have not been released, but the dollar amount and date indicate that it could be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-puts-dollar-amount-on-alleged-biden-bribery-scheme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">related to Ukraine</a> or <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/18/bidens-5m-china-loan-part-of-pay-to-play-scheme-sen-grassley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a>.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) addressed confidentiality issues in an <a href="https://hughhewitt.com/house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-on-the-debt-limit-deal-and-the-looming-contempt-charge-for-fbi-director-christopher-wray/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview on Tuesday with radio host Hugh Hewitt</a>. &#8220;If there’s a concern about methods or areas of how we get it, redact names so we don’t see that. But you’ve got to show the document,&#8221; he said. McCarthy also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-prepared-to-hold-fbi-director-in-contempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made it clear</a> that he has Comer&#8217;s back in demanding the document and holding Wray in contempt, stressing that the FBI director is &#8220;not above the law.&#8221;
Democrats have accused their GOP counterparts of ignoring alleged misconduct by former President Donald Trump while trying to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-raise-alarm-about-biden-family-after-treasury-visit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dig up “dirt”</a> on the Biden family as Republican lawmakers raise concerns about <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-reveals-new-evidence-in-biden-familys-influence-peddling-schemes%EF%BF%BC/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">influence peddling schemes</a> linked to countries around the world.
The White House, too, has shot back at Republicans. “This silly charade by Chairman Comer is yet another reminder that his so-called ‘investigations’ are political stunts not meant to get information but to spread thin innuendo and falsehoods to attack the President,&#8221; White House spokesperson Ian Sams said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/maxpcohen/status/1664017464672354307" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> Wednesday.
If the House, which is narrowly controlled by Republicans, were to <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/06/house-panel-contempt-efforts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approve a criminal contempt referral</a> to the DOJ, Wray could face a fine and up to a year&#8217;s imprisonment if federal prosecutors take up the case. There are also other forms of recourse, including civil enforcement, <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/06/house-panel-contempt-efforts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the American Bar Association</a>.
&#8220;Director Wray confirmed what my whistleblowers have told me pursuant to legally protected disclosures: the FBI-generated document is real, but the bureau has yet to provide it to Congress in defiance of a legitimate congressional subpoena. This failure comes with consequences,” Grassley said in a statement Wednesday.

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