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White House spending $265K on staff to deflect Hunter Biden probe
The White House is shelling out $265,000 a year in salary for staff whose primary portfolio will be to run comms and defense for the administration from an approaching blizzard of subpoenas.
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White House spending $265K on staff to deflect Hunter Biden probe
By
Jon Levine
October 8, 2022 10:46am
Updated
Letters to the Editor — Oct. 8, 2022
The White House is gearing up for a growing army of staff to fend off potential Republican-led probes on everything from Hunter Biden to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — and taxpayers are footing the bill.
Battening down the hatches should the GOP regain control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, the White House is shelling out $265,000 a year in salary for staff whose primary portfolio will be to run comms and defense for the administration from an approaching blizzard of subpoenas.
In May, the White House poached Richard A. Sauber, the top attorney for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to serve as a “deputy counsel to the president” tasked with handling House oversight probes. Ian Sams, a veteran of Vice President Harris’ failed 2020 presidential campaign, was hired to run official comms for the team. White House records show the two men will take home $155,000 and $110,000 respectively.
And the team is only expected to grow, the Washington Post reported — indicating that its staffing and operational expenditures will balloon further.
Republicans have vowed to investigate Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals. 
The White House is reportedly hiring members from Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign team.AP Photo/Susan Walsh“Americans deserve transparency from President Biden about his family’s suspicious business dealings. But instead of providing transparency, the White House is hiring staff at the American taxpayers’ expense to stonewall congressional oversight and accountability.” said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is on track to chair the House Oversight Committee next year if Republicans retake the House.
“Let’s be clear: no amount of Biden White House staff or stonewalling will stop Republicans’ quest for transparency and accountability on behalf of the American people,” he added.
House Republicans have vowed to investigate everything from the origins of coronavirus, to the botched withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. The party’s marquee probe will focus on Hunter Biden and what connections his father, President Biden, had to his shady overseas business dealings.
Republicans argue there is sufficient evidence to indict Hunter Biden.Gripas Yuri/Abaca/Sipa USA 
Rep. James Comer accused the White House of “stonewalling” on the “American taxpayers’ expense.”Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesPresident Biden has consistently denied any such connections, even as a growing body of evidence has accumulated to indicate that is not the case.