UPDATE:
House Republicans held their high-stakes impeachment vote Tuesday night for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. While the initial vote narrowly failed with 214 voting for impeachment and 216 voting against it, one congressman says a follow-up vote will be held in the near future.
In the end, three Republicans opposed the impeachment, and a fourth Republican switched his vote so the measure could be revisited.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reportedly plans to bring up the measure again.
You’d have to go back almost 150 years to the last time a cabinet official was impeached by Congress in 1876. House Republicans still hope to add Mayorkas to that list to underscore just how important defending the border is to the country.
The GOP accuses Mayorkas of willfully refusing to stop migrants from entering the country illegally, resulting in record numbers of crossings: nearly 250,000 in December alone. They charged Mayorkas with two articles of impeachment, saying the Homeland Security secretary violated the law by allowing migrants to be released into the country and lied to Congress about the situation at the southern border.
“Secretary Mayorkas thinks what he is doing is just fine, but he could not be more wrong,” said Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX).
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