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No one in the US capital, Washington, expects a change in the sharp political polarization that dominates the relationship between Republicans and Democrats, especially with the Republican Party taking over the majority in the House of Representatives.

And a number of Republican leaders pledged to open parliamentary investigations that would paralyze the White House during the remaining two years of President Joe Biden's rule, with the start of the new legislative session this week.

And the year 2022 ended with an ambivalent balance for President Biden;

At a time when the rate of satisfaction with his method of governance did not exceed 40% among Americans, the results of the midterm elections that took place on the eighth of last November represented a major victory for his democratic camp.

It is widely expected that the House of Representatives will be preoccupied during the years 2023 and 2024 with conducting investigations more than it is preoccupied with issuing legislation.

At the top of these investigations are 6 cases that would paralyze the Biden administration, and freeze any hopes of passing more legislation that supports the president's broad agenda.

Republicans say that the Biden administration's spending to counter the repercussions of the Covid-19 epidemic has led to more inflation (Reuters)

First: the issue of missing billions of dollars from the COVID-19 relief plan

Various documented press reports, which Republicans intend to exploit, indicate that nearly $560 billion spent under the guise of COVID-19 relief was lost due to waste, fraud, and mismanagement.

Republicans accuse the Biden administration of failing and colluding in directing federal aid programs.

They also believe that the Biden administration, after the epidemic receded and many states reopened, pressed for more government spending that stimulated inflation.

Second: the open southern border crisis

Republicans believe that the Biden administration is adopting a "radical" immigration policy, which has caused the worst border crisis in US history.

The Biden administration is accused of canceling the policies of former President Donald Trump, which succeeded in curbing the flood of irregular migrants by building an iron fence that reduced their numbers to acceptable levels, before the situation turned around and Biden stopped building the wall, which brought the number of irregular migrants to record high rates.

The Republican Party links Biden's policies towards the southern border, and the rise in drug smuggling into the US, especially deadly ones such as "fentanyl".

Republicans say that not only have Biden's policies failed to secure the southern border, they are diverting nearly $600 million earmarked for public health programs to counter the fallout from a national security crisis of his own making.


Third: withdrawal from Afghanistan

After 20 years of its occupation, the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan led to a significant decline in America's global image, and left negative effects on its credibility among its military allies.

And the chaos of the withdrawal caused the killing of 13 American soldiers who were carrying out guard duties at Kabul airport.

It is also believed that the Biden administration left the Afghan army hostage in the hands of the Taliban, which allowed it to control it and its US military equipment.

Republicans accuse Biden of being responsible for the decline in the field of women's rights in Afghanistan, which witnessed a sad chapter last week when the Taliban government prevented girls from attending high schools and universities, restricted the freedom of women and girls, and excluded them from most professions.

Republicans also believe that Biden's policy towards Afghanistan has harmed the national security of the United States.

Republicans accuse Biden of failing to manage the energy file, especially when pressuring Saudi Arabia to pump more oil into global markets (Anatolia)

Fourth: the energy crisis and the rise in fuel prices

The Republican Party considers that President Biden's policy on fossil fuel sources has harmed thousands of workers in this field and eliminated well-paid jobs.

Biden's policies have also led to higher gas and energy prices.

As a result of his refusal to allow the expansion of energy production within the United States, Biden resorted to several systems to request more oil to be pumped into global markets.

Republicans accuse Biden of seeking to pressure Riyadh to pump more oil into global markets, which failed despite the US President's visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last July, which represented an insult to the position of president and America's position with an ally, as Republicans believe.

Republicans also blame Biden for what they see as submission to the progressive trend within his Democratic Party, which is pressing to stop any extraction of traditional energy sources from within the American lands, which endangers American energy independence.

Fifth: The origin of the Covid-19 virus

Republicans see discovering the origins of the COVID-19 virus as vital to protecting Americans from future pandemics.

And a large stream of Republicans believes that there is growing evidence that the virus originated from a leak in the laboratories of the Wuhan Institute in China.

The Republicans rely on various reports indicating US government funding for the laboratories and laboratories of the Wuhan Institute for the purpose of conducting research on "bat coronaviruses".

They accuse scientist Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to Presidents Trump and Biden, and former head of the National Institute for Infectious Disease Control, of being involved and of his early knowledge of the virus leaking from the laboratory.

Sixth: Accusing the president's son of corruption

Republicans claim to have evidence that President Joe Biden lied to the American people when he said, "I never spoke to my son about his business dealings abroad."

Republicans believe that Hunter Biden has benefited and exploited his family name to obtain huge deals and fees from clients and companies in China and Ukraine, although he does not have any qualifications or experience that justifies this.

The Republicans' statements indicate that the media colluded and did not cover the "corruption" of the Biden family in the way it covered the family of former President Trump.

Biden is accused of turning a blind eye to his son's "corruption", despite the risks that this may mean to US national security interests.

Representative James Comer, who is the new Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, believes that President Biden is involved in his son Hunter's international business deals, and the American people have the right to know the details of his family's international business, and his role in it.