The global coronavirus pandemic has put the Hunter Biden corruption investigation on quarantine; Biden and Ukraine gas company Burisma Holdings allegations have been effectively laid off.
Congress has passed its $2.2 trillion stimulus package right before its recess, and the investigation into potential corruption between the Bidens and Ukraine is on recess, as well, The Hill reported.
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., was talking about subpoenas two weeks ago before the U.S. went into social and economic isolation, and now he admits nothing is planned as the Senate is out of Washington, D.C., for almost one month (April 20).
"There's not much we can do for the time being, is there?" Johnson told The Hill. "It is what it is."
The last day Johnson's committee held a public meeting? March 11, hours before Trump would deliver an Oval Office address to the nation that halted European travel for 30 days and would ultimately lead to the U.S. to near-complete social and economic shutdown.
For now, the staff's work will go on behind the scenes, for as much as can be done with no one moving, talking, or caring, really, amid a dangerous pandemic.
"Our oversight team has continued their work on ongoing matters," spokesman for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Taylor Foy told The Hill.
Johnson's subpoenas are on the backburner, per an aide, because "right now COVID is obviously the primary focus."
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