The U.S. House of Representatives voted to defund the office of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The appropriations bill amendment passed 193 to 173, with 72 members of the House abstaining from the vote. One Republican voted in opposition to the measure.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) announced on X, “The House just passed my amendment to defund the office of the DHS Secretary.” He added that Mayorkas, who was impeached earlier this year, “doesn’t deserve a single penny from American taxpayers.”
The measure, as well as the overall appropriations bill, is unlikely to pass in the Senate.
In April, the House brought two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, which were dismissed in the Senate.
“The charges brought against Secretary Mayorkas fail to meet the high standard of high crimes and misdemeanors,” Schumer said ahead of the trial. “To validate this gross abuse by the House would be a grave mistake and could set a dangerous precedent for the future.”
“Let’s not kid ourselves about what’s going on today: the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas has nothing to do with high crimes and misdemeanors and everything to do with helping Donald Trump on the campaign trail,” he added. “Secretary Mayorkas has not been accused of treason or accepting bribes or unlawfully attacking our elections or anything of the sort. He has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing.”
Schumer claimed that the Mayorkas impeachment was an “illegitimate and profane abuse of the U.S. Constitution.”
