Defiant Speaker Mike Johnson insists he WILL try and impeach Mayorkas again after ‘messy’ setback with humiliating defeats in Congress and hits back at Republicans claiming it was a ‘disaster’ to get rid of McCarthy

Speaker Mike Johnson insisted it wasn’t his fault that the Republican Party in the House of Representatives had suffered double embarrassing failures — and said they will try again to impeach the Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas after a ‘messy’ setback.

‘What’s happening here, you see the messy sausage that sets the democratization process in motion, and it’s not always clean. It’s not always pretty,” Johnson told a group of reporters on Wednesday.

“Mayorkas must be held accountable,” Johnson said, stressing he would not give up. “Last night was a setback, but democracy is messy. We will adopt those articles of impeachment. We’ll do it next time.’

“Getting rid of Chairman McCarthy has officially become an unmitigated disaster,” Rep. Thomas Massie wrote on X after the two failed bills – one of which he voted against: aid to Israel.

“All work on separate expenditure laws has stopped. Cuts have been exchanged for spending increases. Espionage without guarantee has been temporarily extended. Our majority has shrunk.”

Johnson responded to the criticism: “I don’t think this is a reflection on the leader. It is a reflection on the body itself.’

Republicans in the House of Representatives have not passed a resolution to impeach Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas in the third major legislative failure of the day in Congress

After weeks of build-up, a resolution to impeach Mayorkas failed Tuesday night, when Democrats pulled off a shock move by bringing in Texas Democrat Al Green, who had just undergone surgery.

This move apparently took Republicans by surprise.

“Their floor director literally told our floor director that Al wouldn’t be here,” Republican Whip Tom Emmer told DailyMail.com.

Republicans were then one vote behind — while Majority Leader Steve Scalise was off recovering from cancer treatment — and the resolution failed.

It was followed by a failed bill that would have offered Israel $17.6 billion, but which had to be passed under suspension, or by a two-thirds majority.

Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., who voted against Mayorkas’ ouster, said the humiliation on the floor would not have happened under former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, calling it a “self-inflicted wound” by ousting the “one person” those who could. have led a wafer-thin majority.

The 214-216 vote was the second of three major legislative failures of the day for Republicans, who remain deeply divided in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Immediately after Mayorkas’ embarrassing vote, Speaker Mike Johnson’s standalone $17.6 billion bill failed spectacularly by a vote of 250 to 218, another humiliating defeat for Republicans in the space of 15 minutes.

‘What’s happening here, you see the messy sausage that sets the democratization process in motion, and it’s not always clean. It’s not always pretty,” Johnson told a group of reporters on Wednesday

And earlier today, the Senate Republicans summarily killed the $118 billion bipartisan border and security deal they spent months negotiating — releasing it just two days ago.

Impeaching Mayorkas was intended as a rare act of unity for Republicans in the House of Representatives, who are deeply divided on other issues. But GOP leaders were stunned by the results.

The Republican Party’s impeachment bid was hanging by a thread, as Chairman Mike Johnson could afford to lose only three votes in total.

Republicans had brought back Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., who was recovering from a car accident but walked onto the House floor with a full chest and neck brace to cast a “yes” vote in the failed impeachment attempt.