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In a dramatic setback, House Republicans failed Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas<\/a>, forced to shelve a high-profile priority \u2014 for now \u2014 after a few GOP lawmakers refused to go along with the party\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stunning roll call fell just a single vote short of impeaching Mayorkas, stalling the Republicans\u2019 drive to punish the Biden administration over its handling of the U.S-Mexico border. With Democrats united against the charges, the Republicans needed almost every vote from their slim majority to approve the articles of impeachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A noisy, rowdy scene erupted on the House floor as the vote was tied for several tense minutes, 215-215. Several Republican lawmakers \u2014 led by the impeachment\u2019s chief sponsor, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia \u2014 surrounded one of the holdouts, Wisconsin Republican Mike Gallagher, who refused to change his vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., walks through statuary Hall as lawmakers gather in the House chamber to vote on the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failures on the U.S.- Mexico border at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. The impeachment failed by one vote. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With the tally stuck, Democrats shouted for the gavel to close out the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrustrated,\u201d said Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, \u201cbut we\u2019ll see it back again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s spokesman Raj Shah said they \u201cfully intend\u201d to reconsider the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas \u201cwhen we have the votes for passage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But next steps are uncertain. In the end, three Republicans opposed the impeachment, and a fourth Republican switched his vote so the measure could be revisited. The final tally was 214-216.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outcome was another dismal result for the House Republicans who have repeatedly been unable to use their majority power to accomplish political goals, or even to keep up with the basics of governing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson, who could afford only a few defections from his ranks, had said earlier he had personally spoken to Gallagher and another GOP holdout, acknowledging the \u201cheavy, heavy\u201d vote as he sought their support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an extreme measure,\u201d said Johnson, R-La. \u201cBut extreme times call for extreme measures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not since 1876 has a Cabinet secretary faced impeachment charges and it\u2019s the first time a sitting secretary is being impeached \u2014 148 years ago, Secretary of War William Belknap resigned just before the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impeachment charges<\/a> against Mayorkas come as border security is fast becoming a top political issue in the 2024 election, a particularly potent line of attack being leveled at President Joe Biden<\/a> by Republicans, led by the party\u2019s front-runner for the presidential nomination, Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Record numbers of people have been arriving at the southern border, many fleeing countries around the world, in what Mayorkas calls an era of global migration. Many migrants are claiming asylum and being conditionally released into the U.S., arriving in cities that are underequipped to provide housing and other aid while they await judicial proceedings which can take years to determine whether they may remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The House Democrats united against the two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, calling the proceedings a sham designed to please Trump, charges that do not rise to the Constitution\u2019s bar of treason, bribery or \u201chigh crimes and misdemeanors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA bunch of garbage,\u201d said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. He called Mayorkas \u201ca good man, a decent man,\u201d who is simply trying to do his job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if Republicans are able to impeach Mayorkas, he is not expected to be convicted in a Senate trial since Republican senators have been cool to the effort. The Senate could simply refer the matter to a committee for its own investigation, delaying immediate action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis baseless impeachment should never have moved forward,\u201d said Mia Ehrenberg, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If House Republicans are \u201cserious about border security, they should abandon these political games,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impeachment of Mayorkas landed quickly onto the House agenda after Republican efforts to impeach Biden over the business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden, hit a lull, and the investigation into the Biden family dragged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Committee on Homeland Security under Chairman Green had been investigating the secretary for much of the past year, including probing the flow of deadly fentanyl into the U.S. But a resolution from Georgia Rep. Greene pushed it to the fore. The panel swiftly held a pair of hearings in January before announcing the two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike other moments in impeachment history, the afternoon\u2019s debate played out to an almost empty chamber, without the fervor or solemnity of past proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., joined at right by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the ranking member, delivers a statement as the House Rules Committee meets to prepare the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a floor vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Greene, who was named to be one of the impeachment managers if there is a Senate trial, rose to blame Mayorkas for the \u201cinvasion\u201d of migrants coming to the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona said Mayorkas had committed a \u201cdereliction of duty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the Mayorkas impeachment vote was a stunt designed by Republicans to sow \u201cchaos and confusion\u201d and appease Trump \u2014 rather than to govern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo reasonable American can conclude that you\u2019re making life better for them by this sham impeachment,\u201d Jeffries said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was only as the roll call came to a standstill that the chamber burst into an angry, boisterous scene as tempers flared and the vote failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three Republicans opposing impeachment were Gallagher, Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado and Tom McClintock of California. Republican Rep. Blake Moore of Utah was the Republican who switched his vote on procedural grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point, Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas, who had missed votes earlier in the day, arrived from the hospital to cast his vote against the impeachment. Green told NBC News that he had gone to the emergency room and had surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McClintock, in a memo, said the charges \u201cfail to identify an impeachable crime that Mayorkas has committed.\u201d He said the articles of impeachment from the committee explain the problems at the border under Biden\u2019s watch. But, he said, \u201cthey stretch and distort the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday\u2019s vote arrived at a politically odd juncture for Mayorkas, who has been negotiating a bipartisan border security package<\/a> in the Senate, earning high marks from a group of senators involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that legislation, which emerged Sunday as one of the most ambitious immigration overhauls in years, collapsed Tuesday as Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged that the deal was dead.. Trump had sharply criticized the bipartisan effort and Speaker Johnson said it was \u201cdead on arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Impeachment, once rare<\/a> in the U.S., has been used as both a constitutional check on the executive and increasingly as a political weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts have argued that Mayorkas has simply been snared in a policy dispute with Republicans who disapprove of the Biden administration\u2019s approach to the border situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three former secretaries of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, Janet Napolitano and Jeh Johnson, said in a letter Tuesday that impeaching the Cabinet official over policy disputes would \u201cjeopardize our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump as president was twice impeached \u2014 first in 2019 on abuse of power over his phone call with the Ukrainian president seeking a favor to dig up dirt on then-rival Biden, and later on the charge of inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol. He was acquitted on both impeachments in the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

___<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press writers Kevin Freking, Farnoush Amiri, Mary Clare Jalonick and Rebecca Santana contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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