Heritage Action puts Senate Republicans on notice for Mayorkas impeachment trial
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Anna Giaritelli
April 8, 2024 12:05 pm
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EXCLUSIVE — Conservative advocacy group Heritage Action is planning to target Senate Republicans who have voiced plans to vote against proceeding with a trial on the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The sister organization of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit think tank, told the Washington Examiner on Monday morning that it will unleash its own campaign to whip GOP senators into line and ensure the Mayorkas trial comes to fruition later this week.
“The border crisis, which was created and facilitated by this administration, is now the number one concern of Americans,” Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker said in a statement. “Lawmakers who claim that impeaching Secretary Mayorkas is a waste of time or the Senate is too busy to hold a trial are not only absurd, they’re massively out-of-touch with the voters who sent them to Washington.”
House managers in the case will deliver the two articles of impeachment to the upper chamber on Wednesday, nearly two months since the lower chamber impeached Mayorkas.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told members in a “Dear Colleague” letter sent last Friday that confirmed the Senate would receive the articles Wednesday, when Mayorkas is also scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill for a pair of congressional hearings related to the DHS budget. Impeachment proceedings are slated to begin in the Senate on Thursday.
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