{"id":3787,"date":"2024-02-08T00:55:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-says-he-wont-resign-if-impeached\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T00:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:55:38","slug":"dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-says-he-wont-resign-if-impeached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-says-he-wont-resign-if-impeached\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he won’t resign if impeached"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas<\/a> tells Fox News he would not resign if he were to be impeached.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mayorkas, 64, made these comments to Fox News\u2019 Matt Finn during a security presser in Las Vegas ahead of the Super Bowl<\/a> on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ll gladly answer it again. The allegations are baseless and I’m focused on the work, which was what brings me to Las Vegas<\/a> today,” Mayorkas said Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The comments come after a failed push by House Republicans to impeach the DHS secretary over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republicans were forced to shelve the priority after a few GOP lawmakers refused to go along with the party\u2019s plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018PRO-LIFE SPIDERMAN’ ARRESTED AFTER CLIMBING LAS VEGAS SPHERE DURING SUPER BOWL WEEK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The stunning roll call Tuesday fell just a single vote short of impeaching Mayorkas, stalling the Republicans’ drive to punish the Biden administration over its handling of the U.S-Mexico border.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With Democrats united against the charges, the Republicans needed almost every vote from their slim majority to approve the articles of impeachment.<\/p>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s spokesman Raj Shah said they “fully intend” to reconsider the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas “when we have the votes for passage.”<\/p>\n

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

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

The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tells Fox News he would not resign if he were to be impeached.\u00a0 Mayorkas, 64, made these comments to Fox News\u2019 Matt Finn during a security presser in Las Vegas ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday.\u00a0 “I\u2019ll gladly answer it again. The allegations are baseless and I’m focused on … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}