House Rejects GOP Bid to Fine AG Garland Over Biden Interview Tape

The House defeated a Republican resolution to fine Attorney General Merrick Garland $10,000 per day for not handing over audio from President Biden's interview in a classified documents case. The vote, which saw bipartisan dissent, reflected ongoing tensions over the investigation and tactics for obtaining sensitive information.

The House on Thursday rejected a GOP effort to fine Attorney General Merrick Garland USD 10,000 a day until he turns over audio of President Joe Biden's interview in his classified documents case as a handful of Republicans resisted taking an aggressive step against a sitting Cabinet official.

Even if the resolution, titled inherent contempt, had passed, it was unclear how the fine would be enforced as the dispute over the tape of Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur is now playing out in court.

The House voted 204-210, with four Republicans joining all Democrats, to halt a Republican resolution that would have imposed the fine, effectively rebuffing the latest effort by GOP lawmakers to assert its enforcement powers — weeks after Biden asserted executive privilege to block the release of the recording.

(With inputs from agencies.)