On Monday, the new leader of the Senate GOP said that he supports any efforts to continue investigating Hunter Biden and the Biden family, even despite Joe Biden issuing a pardon for his son.

According to Just The News, Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) said in an interview that “this pardon, and the repeated lies the president and his administration told about it, will be a shameful bookend to President Biden’s tenure in office, and I would be supportive of Congress continuing to look into allegations of corrupt behavior.”

Thune went on to say that the “full and unconditional” pardon for Hunter, issued on Sunday evening, “raises further questions about the extent of Hunter Biden’s crimes” due to the fact that it covered a 10-year period from 2014 to 2024. The pardon explicitly states that it covers any and all crimes that Hunter “committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) also condemned Biden’s decision, pointing out that the president had “insisted many times he would never pardon his own son for his serious crimes.”

“Trust in our justice system has been almost irreparably damaged by the Bidens and their use and abuse of it,” Johnson added in his written statement on X. “Real reform cannot begin soon enough!”

Biden had vowed as recently as November that he would not pardon his son, and would let the justice system determine his fate. Hunter was eventually convicted on firearms charges in June, after which he entered a guilty plea on tax charges in September. Biden’s pardon comes after the defeat of his Vice President Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) by former President Donald Trump in the November election. President-elect Trump had also suggested the possibility that he might pardon Hunter as a gesture of good faith, but also predicted in an interview with Fox News that Joe Biden would pardon his son before he left office.