FactChecking McCarthy’s Impeachment Inquiry Claims

Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Sept. 12 that he would direct the House to open a formal impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.

The unilateral move came just a week and a half after McCarthy told Breitbart News that an impeachment inquiry “would occur through a vote on the floor of the People’s House and not through a declaration by one person.”

The inquiry — which will be led by the Republican chairmen of the House oversight, judiciary, and ways and means committees — is largely based on the findings of an investigation that...