U.S. Rep. Andy Kim (D., NJ) is disappointed that President Joe Biden has decided to pardon his son Hunter Biden, the future senator said Monday, a day after Biden’s pardon became public.

Biden had repeatedly declared that he would not pardon his sonwho faced possible prison time on federal felony gun and tax convictions. But as he reversed course Sunday evening, Biden argued that the charges against his son were politically motivated. Kim, who will head to the US Senate in Januarymade a name for himself working outside the Democratic machine.

Kim said he believes Biden’s pardon “only fuels this harmful assumption that the wealthy and well-connected play by a different set of rules.”

“I’m hearing from a lot of people right now in New Jersey and elsewhere that politics is just a game of insiders, one that benefits a few rather than the daily needs of the American people,” he said. continued Kim. “…While as a father I can sympathize with President Biden’s family, as a citizen I am disappointed in his decision.”

But U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, a Democrat who represents Philadelphia, said he thought the pardon was “appropriate.”

“I hope this will pave the way for pardons for other appropriate nonviolent federal offenders, including lower-level drug offenders,” he said.

U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, a progressive Democrat who represents Pittsburgh, also said she hoped Biden would use his power to pardon those outside his family. Lee posted on Blacks.”

Lee shared an article published by L’Appel about an effort she is part of with 60 lawmakers calling for Biden to grant clemency to those she described as “the elderly, the chronically ill, those on death row and others facing the injustice”.

Rep. American. Scott Perry (R., Pa.) and Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R., Pa.) spoke out Monday against Biden’s decision., also in articles on X.

Perry said that the “corruption of the radical left knows no limits”, while Reschenthaler said that “the Biden crime family’s term in public office ends in 50 days – and it can’t come soon enough.”

Other members of the Pennsylvania delegation remained largely silent on social media Monday and did not immediately respond to requests for comment.