Senate Republicans will continue Hunter Biden probe on subcommittee

The Senate Republicans who led the investigation into Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine are not planning on slowing😼 down when President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

While Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are both leaving their committee chairmanship💙s due to term limits, the two will continue their work.

, Johnson — who will swap roles with the current chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on the Homeland Security Committee, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio.), in January’s new Congress — said, “I’m not going to turn a blind eye” to the recent developments in the Biden probe.

“Tony Bobulinski coming forward, the computer being revealed, the FBI possibly starting an investigation. We had a hard enough time getting what evidence we got to even write a report, and then all of a sudden our report sort of opened up this logjam,” the Wisconsin Republican said, referencing a former business associate of Hunter and James Biden, the president-elect’s son and brother, respectively.

“I’m very confident there are prob𒁏ably more financ🐼ial transactions that will probably be revealed,” Johnson added.

Grassley, meanwhile, penned a letter to Attorney General William Barr last week asking the Justice Department to review Hunter and James Biden’s business dealings.

Spe🌳cif🌠ically, the Iowa senator asked if the two Bidens needed to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and requested to know whether either man had ever asked the department whether they needed to be registered.

Johnson and Grassley released a report in September in which they said their investigation concluded that the Obama administration ignored “glaring warning signs” when then-Vice President Biden’s son joined the board of a Ukrainian energy company owned by a corrupt oligarch.

Hunt♒er Biden’s position with the Burisma natural gas firm — which paid him “as much as $50,000 per month” — “created an immediate potential conflict of interest” because h꧂is father was involved in US policy toward Ukraine, the report stated.

The Biden campaign said at the time of the report that the probe was based on “a long-disproven, hard-core right-wing conspiracy theory” and the president-elect has long denied any wrongdoing.

Hunter Biden has said his role on the board exhibited “poor judgment,” but has also denied any wrongdoing.

While the investigation will cont🧸inue with Johnson at the helm, his fu﷽ll committee will be focused elsewhere.

Portman🌞, who will take over as chairman in January, is known for reaching across the aisle and having a bipartisan streak.

During his time leading the investigations subcommittee, the Ohio senator worked withꦚ both parties to deliver a report on the opioid crisis and how drugs were coming into the US through the Postal Service.

He is also expected to hav♔e far less political priorities when the new Congress convenes, focusing his attention on overseeing the ♔federal coronavirus response and addressing any supply chain issues discovered while distributing PPE earlier this year to prevent any problems with distributing a vaccine.