GOP lawmakers seek to slash Mayorkas’ salary to $1 amid border crisis.
A Bold Move: Republican Lawmakers Push to Slash Secretary Mayorkas’s Salary
A group of Republican lawmakers are taking a stand against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s handling of the border crisis. In a bold move, Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Claudia Tenney (R-NY) are leading an effort to use the Holman rule to reduce Mayorkas’s salary to just $1. Their aim is to send a clear message that the secretary’s failure to secure the southern border should not go unnoticed.
The Holman rule grants Congress the power to slash the salaries of government officials, and Roy and Tenney are determined to use it to hold Mayorkas accountable. They argue that his salary should reflect his inability to protect American taxpayers from threats crossing the border.
“Secretary Mayorkas should not be paid hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to continually fail to protect American taxpayers from threats crossing our borders,”
Tenney stated. “Thanks to Secretary Mayorkas’s work, or lack thereof, there have been at least 5.8 million illegal crossings of our southern border since Biden took office, turning all our communities into border communities. If the president is refusing to fire him for his dereliction of duty, his salary must reflect his failures.”
Roy and Tenney are making their move by proposing an amendment to the Homeland Security appropriations bill. This comes after conservatives have called for Mayorkas’s resignation, demanded the Biden administration to fire him for alleged “dereliction of duty,” and even introduced articles of impeachment against the secretary.
“It’s time to end this border crisis once and for all. The American people have no obligation to keep paying a federal official who refuses to do his job and uphold his oath, and that’s why we should zero out Mayorkas’s salary,”
Roy emphasized. “I’m glad to work with Rep. Tenney in this fight to regain operational control of the border.”
Roy has previously made it clear that he will withhold his support for any appropriations bill unless Congress takes action to tighten security at the southern border, which he considers a “national crisis.”
An influx of immigrants has caused a border and migration crisis across the country. Border states and liberal sanctuary cities such as New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., have been particularly affected. The situation escalated when Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) sent immigrants to these sanctuary cities by bus. Since the spring of 2022, New York alone has witnessed over 100,000 immigrant arrivals.
According to initial numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a staggering 182,401 individuals were apprehended for illegally entering the country nationwide in August.
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