House Republicans failed to pass articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, scuttling an effort that was widely seen as an opportunity to deliver on a key promise to GOP base voters.
The two articles charged Mayorkas with “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” in enforcing border policy and “breach of public trust.”
Republicans have focused on investigations and oversight to deliver on demands from their base in a divided Congress where a Democratic-controlled Senate can quash any partisan bills sent from the House.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday morning, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said the chamber did not take the move “lightly.”
He accused Mayorkas of failing to enforce federal law “blatantly, openly, willfully and without remorse.”
“They didn’t want political disputes to become impeachments because that would shatter their separation of powers that vests the enforcement of the laws with the president — no matter how bad a job he does,” said McClintock, R-Calif.
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House Republicans failed to pass articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, scuttling an effort that was widely seen as an opportunity to deliver on a key promise to GOP base voters.
The two articles charged Mayorkas with “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” in enforcing border policy and “breach of public trust.”
Republicans have focused on investigations and oversight to deliver on demands from their base in a divided Congress where a Democratic-controlled Senate can quash any partisan bills sent from the House.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday morning, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said the chamber did not take the move “lightly.”
He accused Mayorkas of failing to enforce federal law “blatantly, openly, willfully and without remorse.”
“They didn’t want political disputes to become impeachments because that would shatter their separation of powers that vests the enforcement of the laws with the president — no matter how bad a job he does,” said McClintock, R-Calif.
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