April 11, 2024 |
Photo – Senator John Barrasso – Bigfoot99 file photo
In Washington, D.C. Wednesday, Wyoming Senator John Barrasso said in a floor speech that Joe Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary should face an impeachment trial for his part in overrunning United States with illegal immigrants.
Addressing Democrats in the U.S. Senate, Barrasso charged Democrats with attempting to bury charges against Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to help him avoid facing impeachment., Barrasso held in his hand the “The Federalist Papers,” a collection of essays written by some of the country’s original thinkers and doers. The series of essays in the book were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
Senator Barrasso pointed to Essay Number 65, written by Hamilton. Its title is, “The Powers of the Senate Continued,” as it carries on a theme begun by Jay—Chief Justice of the United States from 1789 to 1795–in Federalist Number 64.
Earlier Wednesday, a defiant Mayorkas – a Cuban emigree to the United States — faced an infuriated panel of House lawmakers, during which Republicans led a charge against the Biden administration for failing to deport more than a million illegal immigrants who have been ordered to leave.
Mayorkas appeared before the House and Senate appropriations committee yesterday about his agency’s 2025 budget. At the same time, articles of impeachment against the secretary were moving from another part of the House to Senate.
Republican House member Ashley Hinson of Iowa called for impeaching Mayorkas during her questioning of the secretary.
House Republicans walked to the brink Wednesday but then held back to make the case for a full Senate impeachment trial of a U.S. Cabinet official – the first in nearly 150 years.
As Mayorkas was defending his policies and deflecting blame for its failures yesterday, Wyoming’s senior senator was making a case for the secretary’s impeachment.
In an historic rebuke of the secretary, the House voted to impeach Mayorkas on a 214-213 vote with all Democrats voting “no.” President Biden said in a statement released after the vote, “History will not look kindly on House Republicans.”
Now the articles of impeachment have been sent to the Senate, setting up a historic showdown with the Biden Administration.
