Congresswoman Gwen Moore Votes “No” on Impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas
“Today, I voted ‘No’ on House Republicans’ baseless impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas. This effort is political theater to score cheap points over border policy. I am glad some of my colleagues across the aisle voted against this measure as well.
On day one, President Biden proposed a comprehensive immigration bill to Congress. House Republicans chose to let it languish. Last fall, President Biden sent Congress an emergency supplemental request with additional resources for the border, including to address drug trafficking with increased CBP staff and innovative technology. We still have seen no action on it.
Even before the legislative text of the Senate’s bipartisan border agreement was released, Speaker Johnson was already calling it ‘dead on arrival’ in the House.
And now, House Republicans have decided to weaponize the impeachment process to distract from their inaction and disinterest in actually advancing real, bipartisan solutions to the challenges at our border and immigration system that require the support of the Senate and White House.
This is a just another distraction from their unwillingness to do their jobs and their genuine disinterest in governing.”
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Thank you Congresswoman Moore for your leadership on this ridiculous issue. It is beyond hypocritical of the Republicans to vote to impeach an individual when they continue to stand behind a former president with numerous criminal offenses who tried to overthrow democracy and then refuses to allow President Biden to do anything to improve the border until after the next election. If the border situation was truly as bad as they say, all would be on board by getting something done now–not a year from now. In the meantime, our adversaries in Russia and elsewhere evade countries we are in alignment with because Republicans refuse to provide financial resources to prevent this. Unbelievable!
I agree, Congresswoman Moore indeed showed integrity in her vote against impeachment. The RRRs (radical reactionary republicans) are not interested in fixing problems at the border. In their calculation, fixing immigration issues would result in a political win for the Biden administration. In reality, this has been their modes operandi throughout this century. They have been against any proposal supported by a Democratic president even when they are the authors!
RRRs are not interested in the welfare of this country and its citizens. They do not want to govern. They simply want to prevent Democrats from governing.