No Confidence in Mayorkas

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No Confidence in Mayorkas
Yesterday Fox News reported that Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) announced that he is issuing a resolution to call for a vote of no confidence in Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Fox News reported:

The draft resolution, obtained by Fox News Digital, states that Mayorkas "does not have the confidence of the Senate or of the American people to faithfully carry out the duties of his office."

The resolution accuses Mayorkas of having "engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompatible with his constitutional and statutory duties as Secretary of Homeland Security." 

Specifically, it says that he has failed to take the necessary actions to achieve operational control of the southern border, something the head of Border Patrol has said the agency does not have.

The Washington Examiner reported that Republicans who had previously called for the impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas have gone quiet on the matter. Some Republicans had accused Mayorkas of mishandling the border crisis and obstructing congressional oversight. The Examiner reported:

But since early March, the fanfare has died down, and the party’s focus has shifted from blaming someone for the border crisis to taking steps to end the chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border, with few GOP aides and members willing to acknowledge the lack of action on impeachment publicly.

Two GOP aides, including one in leadership, told the Washington Examiner on Monday that the party was, in fact, focusing its immediate efforts on passing legislation on immigration and border security.

A GOP leadership aide said the House committees on homeland security, judiciary, and oversight were “hard at work right now on a border package” and no impeachment action had been taken because lawmakers were “still working on their investigations into Mayorkas’s handling of the border crisis and the facts will dictate their next steps.”

In a statement provided Monday, House Oversight and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said his committee had asked senior Border Patrol agents stationed on the southern border to provide additional information about the state of the border.

“These interviews will inform future oversight so we can hold Secretary Mayorkas and others accountable for the border crisis,” Comer wrote in his statement.

Whether impeachment proceedings occur remains to be seen, but per tradition the Republicans are continuing to raise money on it. From Politico Playbook:

House Homeland Security Chair MARK GREEN (R-Tenn.) told attendees at a donor event in his home state this month that he’s working to produce an impeachment case against DHS Secretary ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS for “dereliction of duty and his intentional destruction of our country through the open southern border,” NYT’s Karoun Demirjian scoops . In tapes secured from the meeting, Green said he had a “five-phase plan” for the proceedings that “would start with an appearance by the secretary before his committee on Wednesday.”

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