House Impeaches Mayorkas Over Border Management

47 weeks ago The U.S. House has voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration's handling of the U.S-Mexico border. In a historic rebuke of a sitting Cabinet secretary, the Republican majority was determined to try again to impeach Mayorkas after having failed last week. Tuesday evening's vote was tight, even with the arrival of Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who has been away from Washington for cancer care. Speaker Mike Johnson's threadbare majority could not spare defections or absences in the face of staunch Democratic opposition to impeaching Mayorkas. Republicans are trying to make good on their priorities as they criticize the Biden administration's handling of the record number of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.