Joe Biden’s White House physician on Wednesday declined to answer questions during a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight Committee, invoking his Fifth Amendment right as the Republican-led panel pushes forward in its probe of the former president’s mental fitness and decline.

President Joe Biden’s White House physician is refusing to answer questions as part of the House Republican investigation into Biden’s health in office. Dr.

House Republicans are weighing how to proceed after Dr. Kevin O’Connor, former President Joe Biden’s White House physician, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer questions Wednesday in a closed-door interview with congressional investigators.