Three Republican-led US House of Representatives committees released a report on Monday summarizing the findings from their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, claiming there is evidence Biden has “engaged in impeachable conduct.” However, the committees have yet to make a formal recommendation to the House following this report. The report also does not contain any references to specific articles of impeachment. President Biden has previously called the impeachment inquiry “baseless.”

The committees’ report indicates there is evidence supporting that Biden has engaged in impeachable conduct, including “conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family” while serving in his position as Vice President. The report also identifies there is evidence showing Biden “used his official position [as Vice President] to conceal his mishandling of classified information as a private citizen.”

Following this evidence, the report concludes Biden’s conduct has amounted to “abuse of office,” which is defined as using “official power to obtain an improper personal benefit, while ignoring or injuring the national interest.” According to the report, this definition comes from the impeachment of former President Donald Trump in 2019 for his abuse of office.

The committees have not included any specific articles of impeachment in the report. Articles of impeachment formally detail the charges against the president and allow the House to vote by simple majority as to whether the articles are then adopted. Once adopted, an impeachment trial can begin before the Senate. The report instead has left the floor open to the general House to make decisions on the next steps for the impeachment process.

The House had announced the impeachment inquiry into Biden in September of 2023 with the House voting to formalize the impeachment inquiry in December of that same year. The committees presented areas of interest for the inquiry at that time to the House, which concerned similar conduct as mentioned in the committees’ report—specifically conduct surrounding Biden’s son, Hunter, and “foreign money…transmitted to the Biden family” used to conceal “President Biden’s involvement in his family’s business activities.”

When the House first announced the impeachment inquiry, Biden released a statement, claiming “[House Republicans] are focused on attacking me with lies. Instead of doing their job on the urgent work that needs to be done, they are choosing to waste time on this baseless political stunt that even Republicans in Congress admit is not supported by facts.” The president has not released an official statement on the committees’ impeachment report as of publication.

The US Constitution details the structure of the US government and various processes, including impeachment. The House is entrusted with the sole power to impeach a president in Section 2 of Article 1, with the Senate having the power under Section 3 to carry out an impeachment trial and the subsequent removal of a president from office. An impeachment inquiry must be initiated by the House when it is “confronted with evidence that the President of the United States may have engaged in ‘Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.'”

At this time, the House can draft articles of impeachment against Biden to vote on if it chooses to move forward with the impeachment process.