A vote shall be taken to question DHS Secretary Mayorkas after Republicans voted to ship articles of impeachment to the complete Home.
Republicans on the Home Homeland Safety Committee tweeted:
BREAKING: The Home Committee on Homeland Safety has voted to advance articles of impeachment towards DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas out of committee.
— Home Homeland GOP (@HomelandGOP) January 31, 2024
The looks of those articles was finest expressed by Committee Consultant Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who mentioned: “The acute MAGA Republicans who management the Home of Representatives are extraordinarily unserious folks. They do not need progress, they do not need options. They need a political challenge and, above all, they need to appease their disgraced former president. Home Republicans are taking their marching orders from Donald Trump, who has instructed them to reject a bipartisan border invoice and urge Republican governors to defy a U.S. Supreme Court docket order to permit the Border Patrol to work, together with the members of this committee.
Do Republicans Have the Votes to Impeach Mayorkas?
In line with a CNN report, Home Republicans shouldn’t have the votes wanted to question Alejandro Mayorkas. Home Republicans are nonetheless working to get the votes wanted to question Mayorkas:
Jake Tapper asks if Republicans within the Home of Representatives have the votes to question Mayorkas. The reply: “Nicely, they’re nonetheless engaged on that.” pic.twitter.com/7wmUpK7UYN
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 30, 2024
Republicans do not have the votes to question Mayorkas, however they ship the articles to the ground anyway. Non-serious folks abuse their energy as a result of they suppose it’ll assist put Donald Trump again within the White Home.
Republicans within the Home of Representatives introduced ahead these articles of impeachment whereas a lot of the nation was asleep as a result of they had been attempting to cowl up the soiled work they had been doing for Donald Trump.
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