CNN —
As House Republicans’ impeachment drumbeat grows louder, White House officials are focused on whether House Speaker Kevin McCarthy can summon enough votes to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, according to two people familiar with the White House’s thinking.
“That’s the first question on the table,” one of those people told CNN, suggesting that new comments by McCarthy appeared to raise the bar for an impeachment to go forward.
McCarthy told Breitbart News that pursuing an impeachment of Biden would require a formal vote on the House floor, “not a declaration by one person” – an apparent reference to members such
