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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas survived a House Republican effort to impeach him.
A motion to impeach Mayorkas, something long sought by GOPers, failed 214-216, with four Republicans joining all Democrats against the motion.
Republicans leaders had sought to impeach Mayorkas over the crisis at the southern border. But Republicans including Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) opposed the measure, arguing that it would set a precedent for Democrats to try to remove cabinet members in a Republican administration.
Mayorkas would have been the first cabinet secretary to be impeached. In 1876, William Belknap, the secretary of war, resigned before a House vote.
Even before Republicans took control of the House, Mayorkas was a target of GOP ire, as he was blamed for the increase in border crossings.
The vote took place just hours after Senate Republican leadership declared that a bipartisan deal for border security was dead.
As a further sign of the deadlock, the House also was on track to fall short of passage of a bill to provide aid to Israel. Democratic leaders opposed the measure, out of concern that it would foreclose action on other aid to Ukraine and Taiwan.
Even if Republicans had voted to impeach Mayorkas, the Democratic-controlled Senate likely would have voted against conviction.
More to come.
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