House Homeland Security Committee clears Mayorkas impeachment
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🗓️ 31 January 2024
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| 0:45.2 | Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome in the Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. |
| 0:52.2 | It's Wednesday, January 31st, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. |
| 0:57.5 | Number one, the House moves to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. |
| 1:01.0 | Number two, the tax deal is poised to head to the floor. |
| 1:05.7 | And number three, Texio's prep for a Senate grilling. |
| 1:08.9 | All right, happy Wednesday. |
| 1:29.5 | There is a lot happening on Capitol Hill. We are leading off this morning's Punch Bull News a.m. with a look at how the House Home on Security Committee voted 18 to 15 along party lines to impeach DHS Secretary Alahanda Majorcas. Republicans on the panel charged that majorcas was guilty of quote unquote willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law as well as a breach of public trust |
| 1:36.1 | important to note no cabinet official has been impeached in nearly 150 years next action is likely next week when the full House could vote on Majorcas's impeachment. |
| 1:50.2 | The challenge, of course, for the GOP leadership is this. |
| 1:53.8 | If they want to avoid embarrassment on the floor, they need to minimize both Republican |
| 1:59.0 | defections and absences when the impeachment resolution |
| 2:02.1 | comes up for a vote. Speaker Mike Johnson has literally no room for error with just 219 members |
| 2:09.0 | of the House Republican Conference. Two to watch, representatives Tim McClintock, the Republican |
| 2:14.8 | from California, and Ken Buck, the Republican from Colorado. |
| 2:18.9 | They're both still leaning no on the vote to impeach him. |
| 2:22.3 | Buck told us he plans to meet with House Homeland Security Committee, Chair Mark Green, later this week. |
| 2:28.7 | So let's talk about what happened last night. |
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