Mayorkas Impeachment Dies in Senate, Thwarting GOP Attack
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Republican-led efforts to oust Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met an anticlimactic but predictable fate Wednesday as the Senate swiftly sidelined charges against him.
The Senate, after a few hours of deliberation, voted mostly on party lines to toss the two impeachment articles against Mayorkas, rejecting GOP pressure to conduct a full trial that would cast a harsh light on the Biden administration’s border policies ahead of the presidential election.