A Republican lawmaker has taken a swipe at reports about US Secret Service agents paying a hefty sum to use a California rental house as a command post to protect Hunter Biden.
The remarks followed ABC News reporting on Monday that the Secret Service spends more than $30,000 per month to rent the said property in California to protect the president's son who lives in a luxury estate in Malibu.
According to the report, the Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting high-ranking officials and members of their families, is renting a Spanish-style home next to the four-bedroom property
Hunter Biden has lived in for the past year.
Members of the Biden family, including Hunter, began to receive 24-hour protection when Joe Biden became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in June of 2020.
The report comes after Republican congressmen said last week that they are ready to subpoena Hunter Biden and question him on his business dealings abroad as well as the extent of the current US president's alleged involvement if the GOP regains a majority in Congress.
This was preceded by Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Rand Paul (R-KY) announcing plans to investigate the Biden family if the GOP retakes Congress after the midterm elections in November. In addition, Darrell Issa (R-CA) wrote letters to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, chief of staff Ronald Klain as well as multiple former US intelligence officials, demanding that they preserve all Hunter Biden-related records.
In October 2020, the New York Post (NYP) published an article which exposed alleged corruption by the former vice president's son and apparent involvement of Joe Biden in Hunter's business deals.
In the piece, the NYP mentioned two alleged emails that Hunter Biden purportedly received from a top official at the Ukrainian company Burisma while he was on the board of the firm.
In a May 2014 email, Burisma board adviser Vadym Pozharskyi purportedly asked Joe Biden's son to "use [his] influence" to politically support the Ukrainian company, while in another one dated April 2015, Pozharskyi thanked the younger Biden for arranging a meeting with his father, then-US Vice President Joe Biden.
POTUS has repeatedly rejected claims that he was in the know about his son's work and financial gains.