Rep. Greene tries to force another vote to impeach Sec. Mayorkas

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene forces a new vote on the impeachment of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas. It is the second attempt by the loose-knit Republican in just a few weeks to oust the secretary. The latter failed when eight Republicans joined Democrats in voting against it.

The privileged resolution, which must be voted on within two days, comes as the House of Representatives is grappling with a vote on expelling Representative George Santos from Congress and has not yet scheduled votes on appropriations bills due early next year become.

Greene told reporters that she has not spoken to Speaker Mike Johnson about the resolution, but that she plans to push a vote on Mayokas’ ouster again and again until it passes. “It would have been something that I know Speaker McCarthy would have talked to me about,” Greene said. “But I haven’t heard from Speaker Johnson at all.”

The movement to impeach Mayorkas lost momentum as the Republican Party began its efforts to impeach President Joe Biden. But Greene said she believed the House could impeach both. “I think we can do anything if we really put in the work,” she said. “The problem is that Republicans here don’t reflect their voters at all.” And while most Republicans shied away from criticizing Johnson a month into his presidency, Greene openly expressed her frustration.

‘Right now I am indeed frustrated. All he has done is pass Joe Biden’s budget,” she said, referring to the continuing resolution (CR) that pushed back the government funding deadline to the new year and kept spending at 2023 levels. “We’re about to expel a Republican congressman from Congress, but we can’t impeach Mayorkas. We can’t impeach Joe Biden. We cannot stop Jack Smith’s political persecution of President Trump.”

Addressing the eight Republicans who overruled her resolution last time, Greene said: “The eight Republicans who voted with the Democrats claimed they wanted this to follow proper procedure in the House of Representatives and go through committee. “But my articles of impeachment have been sitting in committee for over six months, and they’re basically sitting there collecting dust and not getting picked up.” Greene’s impeachment resolution accuses Mayorkas of failing to enforce U.S. law to maintain operational control of the border.

“Through his willful admission of border crossers, terrorists, human traffickers, drugs and other contraband, Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas has failed to maintain operational control of the border, thereby violating the Secure Fence Act of 2006,” the resolution alleges. Only one Cabinet secretary, Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876, has ever been impeached, at the time over allegations of corruption. Greene’s impeachment resolution accused him of failing to enforce U.S. law to maintain operational control of the border.

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