Senate rejects both impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
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The Senate has killed both impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday, April 18th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.5 | exit. Today the Senate has killed impeachment articles against the Homeland Security Secretary. |
| 0:28.0 | Plus Biden calls for tariff hikes on steel from China and Columbia University's president testifies about anti-Semitism |
| 0:36.3 | on campus. |
| 0:38.8 | The Senate has voted to deem both Articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary |
| 0:43.2 | Alejandro Myorkas, unconstitutional. The move kills the charges |
| 0:47.4 | against the Biden administration official despite protests from Republican |
| 0:51.5 | lawmakers. |
| 0:52.7 | The Senate rejected the article accusing Myorcaus of willful and systemic refusal |
| 0:57.3 | to comply with the law on a 51 to 48 vote. |
| 1:01.4 | Republican Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski voted present splitting from her fellow Republicans. |
| 1:06.6 | The Senate dropped the second charge that my work has oversaw a breach of public trust in a 51 to |
| 1:12.1 | 49 vote. |
| 1:13.5 | The White House applauded the move. |
| 1:15.3 | House Republicans alleged that Myorcas violated the Constitution |
| 1:19.4 | by deliberately refusing to enforce border security laws. But Democrats, some Republicans and |
| 1:25.1 | constitutional law experts have argued that the GOP-led effort uses the |
| 1:29.2 | impeachment process to settle a policy disagreement about how to address the nation's immigration |
| 1:34.4 | system. They've accused many Republican lawmakers of effectively weakening a |
| 1:38.6 | powerful congressional tool. China amid pressure from labor unions concerned about the survival of the US steel industry as Chinese |
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