By Steve Neavling
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is forcing another vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week.
The firebrand Republican from Georgia, who claims Mayorkas’s handling of the southern border amounts to “high crimes and misdemeanors,” filed a second so-called privileged resolution that would force a vote by the end of the week, The Hill reports.
It’s the second time in about two weeks that Greene introduced a measure to impeach Mayorkas. In the first attempt, a small group of Republicans joined House Democrats to refer the resolution to a committee, which effectively shelved the resolution.
It’s unclear whether Greene has enough support from Republicans to pass the bill this time. Even if she did, it likely wouldn’t pass the Senate, which Democrats control.
“The eight Republicans that voted with the Democrats claimed that they wanted it to follow proper House procedure and go through the committee,” Greene said. “But my articles of impeachment have been sitting in committee for over six months, and they’ve been basically sitting there collecting dust, not being picked up.”
If this effort fails, Greene pledged to “keep reintroducing it.”
“I think the American people will not tolerate Republicans continuing to vote it down,” she added. “They have no excuse. Americans are dying every single day. The border is the issue you hear from everybody, even New York is falling apart over the migrant crisis. So I don’t think they’re gonna tolerate this from them.”
DHS responded that the latest resolution is a “baseless attack [that] is completely without merit and a harmful distraction from our critical national security priorities.”
