{"id":2169825,"date":"2024-02-06T21:28:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T02:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-needles-johnson-after-failed-mayorkas-impeachment-vote\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T21:32:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T02:32:19","slug":"white-house-needles-johnson-after-failed-mayorkas-impeachment-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-needles-johnson-after-failed-mayorkas-impeachment-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"White House taunts Johnson over Mayorkas impeachment failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-needles-johnson-after-failed-mayorkas-impeachment-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2169825&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The White \u2063House Slams House Republicans&#8217; Impeachment Effort Against \u2062Homeland\u200d Security \u200cSecretary<\/h2>\n<p>The White House is\u2062 making it\u200d clear that Republicans have joined\u200b forces\u200b with Democrats to \u2062temporarily halt the House \u200cGOP&#8217;s push \u200cto \u200cimpeach Homeland\u2064 Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis.\u200b In\u2062 a statement, Ian Sams, the\u2062 White House&#8217;s spokesman for oversight and investigations, emphasizes the bipartisan agreement that the impeachment effort is baseless, unconstitutional, and doomed to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Sams \u2064goes on to criticize House Republicans for wasting time on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-calls-abbotts-latest-actions-at-border-a-problem\/\" title=\"White House deems Abbott's recent border actions \"problematic\">extreme political stunts<\/a>\u200b instead of working with President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas, and both Republicans and Democrats who are committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-gop-offers-solutions-to-crisis-turned-catastrophe\/\" title=\"Senate GOP offers solutions to \u2018crisis turned catastrophe\u2019\">finding real solutions<\/a> that strengthen \u2063border\u2064 security.<\/p>\n<p>The statement \u2064comes after House Republicans mishandled a floor vote on Mayorkas&#8217;s articles of\u200b impeachment, resulting in a narrow defeat. \u200cSams expresses \u200bhis disappointment and embarrassment for \u200cHouse Republicans, who \u200dare pushing for an impeachment that even conservative lawyers and scholars \u2062deem unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. \u200bKen Buck, one of the Republican defectors, \u2064reveals that another impeachment vote is expected the following morning. However, the timetable is not \u200bconfirmed by House Speaker Mike Johnson&#8217;s\u200b spokesperson, \u2064Raj Shah.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, House Republicans\u200b remain determined \u200cto bring the Articles of Impeachment\u200d against Secretary Mayorkas back to the floor once\u200b they have enough\u200d votes for passage.<\/p>\n<p>The impeachment campaign coincides with the collapse of a bipartisan border security \u2063measure\u2062 in the Senate, \u2064which \u2064was influenced by former President Donald Trump&#8217;s pressure \u2063on\u2064 Republicans not to support it\u200c before the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How has the White House responded to \u200bHouse Republicans&#8217; impeachment efforts\u200c against Homeland Security \u200cSecretary \u200bAlejandro Mayorkas?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The White House has strongly condemned\u2064 House Republicans for\u200b their impeachment efforts\u2064 against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro \u2062Mayorkas. In a bipartisan statement, Ian Sams, the White House spokesman for oversight and investigations, emphasized that the impeachment effort\u200b is \u2063baseless, unconstitutional, and destined to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Sams criticized House Republicans for wasting time on\u200b extreme political theatrics instead\u200c of collaborating with President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas, and both Republicans\u2063 and Democrats who are dedicated to finding genuine solutions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-claimed-it-inked-deal-with-guatemala-to-increase-border-security-guatemala-says-it-never-signed\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Claimed It Inked Deal With Guatemala To Increase Border Security. Guatemala Says It Never Signed.\">strengthen border security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This statement comes after House Republicans mishandled a floor vote on Mayorkas&#8217;s articles of impeachment, resulting in a \u200bnarrow defeat. Sams expressed his disappointment and embarrassment for House Republicans, who are advocating\u200c for an impeachment that even conservative lawyers and scholars consider unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Ken Buck, one of the Republican defectors, revealed that another impeachment\u2064 vote\u200d is expected the following morning. However, the timetable has not\u2062 been confirmed by House \u2063Speaker Mike\u2063 Johnson&#8217;s spokesperson, Raj \u200dShah.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this setback, House Republicans remain determined\u200b to bring the Articles of Impeachment against Secretary Mayorkas back\u200b to the floor once they have enough votes for passage.<\/p>\n<p>The impeachment campaign \u2062coincides with the collapse of a bipartisan border security measure in the Senate, which\u2063 was influenced \u2062by former President \u200dDonald Trump&#8217;s \u200cpressure on Republicans \u200dnot to support it before the \u2063upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>The White\u2064 House&#8217;s firm response to the impeachment effort highlights the administration&#8217;s commitment to defending Secretary Mayorkas and addressing the border\u2063 crisis through cooperative bipartisan\u200c efforts.\u200b The statement send\u200bs a clear message that the \u200bWhite\u2062 House will not tolerate baseless attacks and political stunts\u2063 that distract from the urgent task of securing the \u2062border and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chronic-absenteeism-skyrockets-in-minnesota-public-schools\/\" title=\"Minnesota public schools experience a significant increase in chronic absenteeism.\">finding effective solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House highlights bipartisan agreement as Republicans join Democrats in temporarily halting the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Ian Sams, the White House spokesperson for oversight, asserts that the GOP&#8217;s baseless and unconstitutional impeachment attempt should fail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2169826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP24033625708447-2-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP24033625708447-2-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2169826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}