After weeks of bombshell revelations and contentious debate, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy crossed a political threshold of no return and set significant stakes for both Congress and the Biden White House heading into a tumultuous presidential election year.
The first-term leader of the House on Tuesday authorized an official impeachment inquiry against America’s 46th president. He did it without having to hold a formal vote on the House floor, in part because his predecessor Nancy Pelosi changed the tradition during the Donald Trump era.