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Rep. Jim Banks vowed Sunday that Republicans would probe the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and scandal-scarred first son Hunter Biden if they win control of the House — after the GOP suffered a Senate setback Saturday.
“Oversight is a primary function of the Congress. And for the last few years, there has been no oversight of the Biden agenda and the Biden administration,” Banks (R-Ind.) told host Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.”
“So that has to be a focal point of every single committee in the Congress, especially in the house under Republican control.”
While the Democrats held onto power in the Senate with Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Mastos’ win in Nevada, control of the House is still up in the air.
Banks, a veteran of Afghanistan, said “no one has ever been held accountable” for the haphazard removal of US troops from the war-torn country last August.
“There’s never been an investigation into the pullout of Afghanistan that cost the lives of 13 of our heroes,” said Banks, who is among a number of Republicans jockeying for House majority whip if they control the chamber.
“That means that the Congress did not do their job in providing that type of oversight.
