{"id":4577,"date":"2024-02-14T23:30:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/fox-news-politics-borderline-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T23:30:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:30:36","slug":"fox-news-politics-borderline-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/fox-news-politics-borderline-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Politics: Borderline impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Fox News\u2019 Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the\u00a02024 campaign trail.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What’s Happening?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

– House Republican warns of serious national security threat related to space<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Mayorkas becomes first cabinet secretary to be impeached since the 19th century<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Democrat Tom Suozzi triumphs in special election to replace Santos<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the eve of Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas<\/a> was impeached in a historic vote over his mishandling of the illegal immigration crisis<\/a> at the U.S.-Mexico border. T<\/strong>hree Republican lawmakers, Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., Ken Buck, R-Colo., and Tom McClintock, R-Calif., jumped the aisle to vote against the impeachment.<\/p>\n

The 214-213 vote came after the first impeachment failed earlier this month. Every House Democrat showed up to protect the cabinet secretary, including Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who temporarily left the hospital where he was recovering from surgery to cast his vote. Once Rep. Steve Scalise returned to D.C. from a cancer treatment, the GOP had the numbers to advance the articles of impeachment.<\/p>\n

House Republicans have accused Mayorkas of violating his oath to defend the U.S. by failing to secure the border and “refusing” to enforce immigration laws.<\/p>\n

The three Republicans who voted against impeachment on Tuesday have criticized Mayorkas’ handling of the border but expressed reservations over whether it rose to the level of impeachment. McClintock warned it could<\/a> set a precedent for political impeachments that could harm Republican officials in the future.<\/p>\n

This is the first time a Cabinet secretary has been impeached by the U.S. Congress since 1876.<\/p>\n

It’s now up to the Senate<\/a> \u2014 where Democrats run the show \u2014 to hold an impeachment trial.<\/p>\n

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Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more on <\/strong>FoxNews.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Fox News\u2019 Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the\u00a02024 campaign trail.\u00a0 What’s Happening?\u00a0 – House Republican warns of serious national security threat related to space – Mayorkas becomes first cabinet secretary to be impeached since the 19th century – Democrat Tom Suozzi triumphs in special election … 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-4577","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\/4577","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=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}