House Panel Will Weigh DHS Secretary Mayorkas’ Impeachment With Tuesday Markup

The House Homeland Security Committee will mark up articles of impeachment to remove Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas from office Tuesday, teeing up a historic vote to topple a Cabinet member for the first time since the 1870s.

In forwarding the resolution, the GOP will be acting on calls that ignited as soon as Republicans took the House and that have lingered amid intraparty disputes about which Biden official to focus on.

“Our thorough and fair investigation exposed Secretary Mayorkas’ abuse of power and refusal to comply with the law. In November, 201 Democrats voted to refer articles of impeachment against the secretary to our Committee and, having completed impeachment hearings earlier this month, we plan to mark up those articles next week,” committee Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said in a statement.

Read the source article at The Hill