The White House on Tuesday accused Republican Rep. Mark Green of antisemitism after he reportedly called Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a “reptile” in urging colleagues to impeach the secretary. Mr. Green, who has been leading the impeachment effort as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, made the comment during a House GOP meeting, according […]
A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. The U.S. House is ready to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over border security, a deeply partisan and highly unusual attack on a Cabinet official […]
The Republican-led House Rules Committee added the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to its work docket on Monday, teeing up a likely House vote next week. The early Saturday addition of the impeachment articles to the panel’s Monday committee hearing signals that House Speaker Mike Johnson is staying firm in his […]
To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary – a “Boy Scout” – who brings a prosecutor’s tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to running his sprawling agency. To his detractors, he personifies everything that has gone wrong at the U.S.-Mexico border and is responsible for allowing hundreds […]
Senate Republicans aren’t convinced Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas deserves to be impeached and removed from office. While they say he has fallen down on the job of securing the southern border, the senators don’t know it rises to high crimes and misdemeanors, even as House Republicans race toward an impeachment vote. “He’s been derelict […]
Republicans will not have unanimity in next week’s vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Rep. Ken Buck, Colorado Republican, said Thursday he is a “solid” no on removing Mr. Mayorkas but not because he supports the man who has overseen a border chaos that Republicans blamed on his open-border practices. The “border is […]
House Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee got their wish and have passed two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The two articles of impeachment accuse Mayorkas of “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and a “breach of public trust.” Mayorkas had followed […]
The House Homeland Security Committee voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security Mayorkas after a marathon 13-hour hearing. The vote was along party lines, 18-15. A full house vote will likely take place next week. This is a rare event. No cabinet member has been impeached in over 150 years. Yet, that is how bad […]
This could only happen in Washington DC, with today’s schizophrenic Republican Party – at the same time Senate “Republicans” (using that party identification loosely) led by Oklahoma Uniparty Senator James Lankford are negotiating a border bill that would give all kinds of new authority to Department of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, House Republicans are impeaching […]
The House Homeland Security Committee gave initial approval Wednesday morning of articles on impeachment against Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, saying his mismanagement of the border should make him the first sitting Cabinet member ever to be impeached. The two articles of impeachment passed the panel on a party-line 18-15 vote just after 1 a.m. Speaker Mike […]
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