The House Homeland Security Committee approved a resolution early Wednesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, about 15 hours after a contentious markup began.
The committee voted 18-15 along party lines at about 1 a.m. to advance the measure to the House floor. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., wrote last week in a letter to House Republicans that the resolution will receive a floor vote “as soon as possible.”
The measure seeks to impeach the DHS leader for “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and “breach of public trust.” The first and only time a Cabinet-level official has been impeached was during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant in the late 1800s, according to the Congressional Research Service.
