WASHINGTON —
House Republicans raised unsubstantiated allegations Wednesday against President Joe Biden over his family's finances as they summoned IRS whistleblowers to testify publicly for the first time about claims the Justice Department improperly interfered with a tax investigation into Biden's son Hunter.
Lawmakers were hearing from the two IRS agents assigned to Hunter Biden case, which looked into his failure to pay taxes. The president's son pleaded guilty recently to misdemeanor tax charges in what Republicans have derided as a "sweetheart" deal.
House Republicans are deepening their own investigation, making broad claims of corruption and wrongdoing by the Bidens that they acknowledge are not proven.
"We will continue to follow the money trail," said Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, as he opened the session.
The Justice Department has denied the whistleblowers' allegations.
The top Democrat on the committee, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, called the hearing "a theater of the absurd."
IRS supervisory special agent Greg Shapley, and a second agent, Joe Ziegler, claim there was what Shapley called in testimony a pattern of "slow-walking investigative steps" into Hunter Biden, including during the Trump administration in the months before the 2020 election that Joe Biden won.
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