Political parties are divided on the value of the Senate looking into Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s role in a corrupt Ukrainian energy company.

      President Donald Trump has pushed Republican senators to subpoena documents about his claims that former Vice President and presidential candidate Vice President Biden’s son helped a Ukranian energy firm get favorable status with the Obama administration. According to The New York Times, President Trump told his party to “get tough” on his Democratic rivals at a Republican luncheon earlier this month.

      Republicans are asking a government relations firm, Blue Star Strategies for records. Hunter Biden, was on the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukranian energy firm. 

     “The public deserves to know how a guy who was vice president of the United States, who is currently trying to be president, got away with using the United States government to use a foreign country to stop investigating a company that was paying his son over $80,000 a month,” said Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida in an article in The New York Times.

     Democrats are against the move, saying the country needs to focus on the coronavirus pandemic and not waste time investigating the President’s political rivals. 

     As reported by The New York Times, Senator Kamala Harris of California said, “There are literally matters of life and death waiting for our committee’s attention, but instead this committee is doing the president’s personal political

bidding.”

  The vote to subpoena records was made by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.