Posted on 02/13/2024 5:49:32 PM PST by Morgana
House Republicans finally voted to impeach Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas exactly one week after their first attempt spectacularly failed.
The two articles of impeachment accuse President Biden's top border official Mayorkas of failing to uphold immigration law and lying to Congress about the state of the U.S.-Mexico border.
He is the first Cabinet official to be impeached in nearly 150 years and now faces a possible trial in the Democrat-controlled Senate, which is expected to acquit him.
The measure passed by just one vote - 214 to 213 after three Republicans, Reps. Ken Buck, R-Colo., Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Tom McClintock, R-Calif., joined Democrats to oppose it saying it would be 'unconstitutional' and set a 'bad precedent' for the GOP in the future.
'History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship,' scathed President Biden after the vote.
'Giving up on real solutions right when they are needed most in order to play politics is not what the American people expect from their leaders,' he wrote in a statement. 'Congress needs to act to give me, Secretary Mayorkas, and my administration the tools and resources needed to address the situation at the border.'
There have been millions of illegal migrant encounters by U.S. border officials since Biden took office, and around 10,000 were entering every day in December - a history shattering statistic.
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Is this more winning or filibusting?
about frikkin time
This is screwing around and sacrificial lamb for Ukraine monies stolen
History will look on this as the day Republicans appeared to stand on two feet.
My recollection of history is one Democrat cheat after another. The Fairness Doctrine, Power Sharing, etc. Every expansion of incivility is owned by the Democrats.
Maybe fighting like men will grow on the Republicans if they would start to do it, once in a while.
Now, throw out Schumer’s bailout to his cop-beaters.
“’Congress needs to act to give me, Secretary Mayorkas, and my administration the tools and resources needed to address the situation at the border.’
Means make me dictator to do as I like with the border...
Nothing will come of this. Prove me wrong.
History will look on this as the day the RINO’s LOST !!!
Means nothing, senate is controlled by democtats. This is going no place.
It looks like Schumer is just going to have a 10 minute trial and call for a vote and that's the end of it.
Of course, he won’t be convicted in the Democrat Senate. What it does is keep the immigration invasion issue which Dems are vulnerable on front and center during the election.
& it’s a good thing they were able to do it yesterday because today the vote would’ve ended in another (since we just lost the runoff election for the seat formerly held by George Santos).
““’Congress needs to act to give me, Secretary Mayorkas, and my administration the tools and resources needed to address the situation at the border.’”
That sounds like baloney but ...
In an NPR interview last evening, some expert said Mayorkas has done nothing wrong because he wis following his boss’s orders.
Is there any truth to that?
To this day I don’t understand how so many of our fellow voters have tolerated our wide open border.
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