#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited 🎁House Republicans walked impeachment papers to the senate today for Secretary Mayorkas. It won’t pass the Senate.We need adults in the House instead of a bunch of Magats who are just dicking around. #PutinsPuppets https://t.co/62reFxAES4 — Sheryl with an S 🟦🟧🇺🇸🌊 (@beachblond52) April 16, 2024 Per the “Senior Congressional Correspondent for Fox News”, …
After House Republicans made the ceremonial walk across the Capitol to present the articles charging Mayorkas with “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and “breach of public trust,” Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, read them aloud on the Senate floor. Senators will be sworn in as jurors Wednesday, and then it will be incumbent on Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) to decide how to proceed.
Schumer decried the proceedings Monday, saying impeachment “should never be used to settle a policy disagreement” and vowing to “address the issue as expeditiously as possible.” It’s unclear whether Schumer will move to table or dismiss the case, a maneuver that requires 51 votes to pass…
Senate Republicans have been divided on how to best influence the process from their relatively powerless position in the minority; some have agitated for an opportunity to hold Democrats accountable for the record-breaking levels of migration at the southern U.S. border. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said the Senate GOP conference had yet to come to an agreement on an approach to process the articles, but one of the options under discussion is extracting an agreement from Democrats to ensure Republicans time to debate.
“I think right now there’s still a question about how it’ll get handled, and that’s something that our members are going to have to have a conversation about today, and then hopefully we’ll have a better insight into what that process might look like,” Thune said…
Mayorkas, meanwhile, has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill over the past week, advocating for a DHS budget with higher funding than in the deal agreed to last month by the White House and Congress.
This is Mayorkas’s 30th time testifying before Congress in his capacity as DHS secretary, although he did not testify in his defense before the House Committee on Homeland Security after it revoked an invitation for him to appear, instead requesting written testimony.
“Secretary Mayorkas spent months helping a bipartisan group of Senators craft a tough but fair bill that would give DHS the tools necessary to meet today’s border security challenges, but the same House Republicans playing political games with this impeachment chose to block that bipartisan compromise,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “Congressional Republicans should stop wasting time with unfounded attacks, and instead do their job by passing bipartisan legislation to properly fund the Department’s vital national security missions and finally fix our broken immigration system.”
Former Republican Congressman David Jolly on the Mayorkas impeachment:
“This is really a violation of the sanctity of the House. They’re now using their powers for this very political, unwarranted move and tool. It is sad to see how unserious it is under the Republican majority” pic.twitter.com/H7WU2OJknO
— Ian Sams (@IanSams46) April 16, 2024
Correct. The Speaker of the House next Congress will be Hakeem Jeffries https://t.co/I99i2tDZU8
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) April 15, 2024