Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens to force an impeachment vote for Joe Biden over his mishandling of the southern border

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has threatened to force a vote this week to impeach President Joe Biden over his border policies — causing another headache for Speaker Mike Johnson.

Johnson distanced himself from the effort — and emphasized that impeachment must proceed through the investigation led by the Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees.

“I think President Biden is the worst president in the history of the country,” Johnson said. ‘It may well be that criminal offenses have been committed. There is an investigation process underway.”

After first threatening the resolution on social media, Greene appeared resolute in calling for a vote after leaving an all-Republican conference meeting on Tuesday.

When asked what it would take to delay filing an impeachment resolution, she replied: “Impeachment.”

Johnson noted that the House passed Homeland Security Sec. has already dropped off. Alejandro Mayorkas on his handling of the southern border. ‘Historically desperate times call for historic measures. It is very rare to impeach a Cabinet official, but we had to do it.

Last month, Greene forced a vote on a motion to remove Mike Johnson from the chairmanship, but that failed.

Greene said Johnson is “all talk” and wondered “what’s the point” of passing party-line legislation that dies in the Democratic-led Senate and at the president’s desk.

‘That doesn’t mean anything. That’s how people see it…and Speaker Johnson is going to have to figure it out.”

“He needs to shut down the government over these things and use the power of the purse strings. I don’t know if he is willing to do that, it’s more talk.’

Greene even said Republicans shouldn’t waste time on 12 separate appropriations bills to fund the government by 2025 — a crucial demand of most far-right lawmakers who hate the “omnibus” process that consolidates funding for all government agencies into one bill. last minute.

“Republicans want to be here like, ‘oh, we passed 12 separate appropriations bills,’ which by the way go nowhere,” she said. Once the House passes the appropriations bills, they must be negotiated with the Senate versions.

Johnson distanced himself from the effort – and emphasized that impeachment must proceed through the investigation led by the Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means committees

“Biden already said he’s going to veto this, MIL-CON, what a waste of time,” she said, referring to the upcoming vote in the House of Representatives on the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs funding bill.

But impeaching Biden in the House of Representatives would also go nowhere: the Senate would not vote to convict the president.

The threat comes as President Biden is set to issue a new executive order Tuesday afternoon that is expected to limit asylum applications to 2,500 per day.

More than 350,000 migrants who entered the US illegally have had their asylum cases dismissed, allowing them to go free without a judgment on the merits of their entry, a new report shows.