House Deflects MTG’s Mayorkas Impeachment Resolution To Committee | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Daniel Chaitin.

    The GOP-led House approved a motion from the Democrats on Monday to punt on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) impeachment resolution against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

    By a 209-201 tally, members voted to send the impeachment resolution to the House Homeland Security Committee, which is already investigating Mayorkas. More than 20 lawmakers did not vote.

    Greene introduced a privileged resolution to force a quick vote on impeachment last week after two of her constituents were killed in a car crash involving a suspected human smuggler from Honduras. The congresswoman accused Mayorkas of "high crimes and misdemeanors" related to his handling of border security.

    Democrats pivoted from offering a motion to table the resolution to one that redirected it to the Homeland Security Committee, a move that reportedly made it more palatable to some Republicans.

    Ultimately, eight GOP members joined with all voting Democrats in supporting the motion. They included: Reps. Cliff Bentz (R-OR), Ken Buck (R-CO), John Duarte (R-CA), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Patrick McHenry (R-NC), and Mike Turner (R-OH).

    In the lead-up to the vote, Greene bemoaned how some of her colleagues preferred moving through "regular order" despite "overwhelming evidence" and argued that sending her resolution to the Homeland Security Committee would effectively "kill" the impeachment effort.

    The panel, led by Chairman Mark Green (R-TN), has been investigating Mayorkas for alleged dereliction of duty for months - a probe that could lead to impeachment proceedings. Earlier on Monday, the committee released an interim report assessing the "staggering" financial costs of the border crisis on U.S. taxpayers.

    The Daily Wire reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday seeking comment on Greene's resolution.


    "While the House Majority has wasted months trying to score points with baseless attacks, Secretary Mayorkas has been doing his job and working to keep Americans safe," a DHS spokesperson said in response.

    "Under his leadership, the Department of Homeland Security is stopping unprecedented amounts of fentanyl from entering the country, countering threats from the Chinese government, helping communities recover from natural disasters, and working to protect our nation from cyberattacks, terrorism, and targeted violence," the spokesperson added.

    "Instead of continuing their reckless impeachment charades and attacks on law enforcement, Congress should work with us to keep our country safe, build on the progress DHS is making, and deliver desperately needed reforms for our broken immigration system that only legislation can fix," the DHS spokesperson concluded.

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After nearly 8 months of the United States House of Representatives' Oversight Committee hearings, House Speaker Mike Johnson is pursuing an Impeachment Inquiry into the strong allegations of Bribery, Influence Peddling, Money laundering and possible Treason regarding the Biden Family Shell Corporations' business dealings with foreign nations that are adversarial to our survival: Is it prudent and wise for the Republican controlled U.S. House to investigate this Democratic Socialist President?

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Considering the deep morass of complete incompetence at the Federal level, in the executive branch of our self-governed People, unarguably the worst in modern times; if certain changes could be made by Impeachment of those most qualified: Who would be your best choice because of abject Corruption, incompetence, or both?

  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

  Attorney General Merrick Garland

  President Joseph R. Biden

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  FBI Director Christopher Wray

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