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House Republicans failed for the first time to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The Associated Press reported:
In a dramatic setback, House Republicans failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, forcing them to shelve key priorities for the time being as several Republican lawmakers refused to follow the party’s plan. Ta.
Tuesday’s surprising roll call fell one vote short of impeaching Mayorkas, stalling Republican efforts to punish the Biden administration over its handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. As Democrats rallied around the charges, Republicans needed nearly every vote in their narrow majority to approve articles of impeachment.
Loud and raucous scenes erupted in the House chamber as the vote lasted several tense minutes, 215-215. Several Republicans, led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, the lead impeachment proponent, surrounded one of the holdouts, Republican Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, who refused to change the vote.
House Republicans plan to try to impeach him again.
This vote is expected to be successful as Steve Scalise will be returning.
House Republicans this week are seeking to redo the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after the chamber failed to punish embattled Cabinet members in surprising and embarrassing fashion.
The House is scheduled to vote again on impeaching Mayorkas on Tuesday, with Republicans expecting the vote to be successful as Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) returns to Congress after completing cancer treatment. ing. If all members show up and vote the same way they did last week, and Mr. Scalise supports impeachment, the effort will fly by.
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The three Republicans who opposed impeachment last week, Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, Rep. Tom McClintock of California, and Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, are unlikely to change their votes. After the first referendum, Mr. Buck told The Hill that he was “not going to change my vote” even if the article came to the floor again, and Mr. Gallagher announced over the weekend that he would not stand for re-election this year. , freed from political influence. His vote could come with that.
Republicans accused Mayorkas of “deliberate and systematic refusal to comply with the law” based on charges of immigration violations by not detaining enough immigrants, and “breach of trust” for not having a cell phone. I’m blaming. He revealed his own culpability, misled Congress, and obstructed its investigation.
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