GOP Senator to Introduce Resolution for Vote of No Confidence in Mayorkas

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said on April 18 he will introduce a resolution to have a vote of no confidence in Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

“Mr. Secretary, you are derelict in your duties. I would be derelict to not do something about this. And that’s why I have a draft resolution here that I intend to introduce in the coming days that would require the Senate to take a vote of no confidence on Secretary Mayorkas,” Marshall told Mayorkas during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.

“I stand at the ready to receive articles of impeachment from the House and conduct an impeachment trial in this body,” he continued. “But in the meantime, I think the Senate must show our colleagues in the House that we’ve had enough of the failures from the Department of Homeland Security and believe that the secretary is not fit to faithfully carry out the duties of his office.”

Mayorkas did not respond to Marshall’s words.

The resolution states that Mayorkas “does not have the confidence of the Senate or of the American people to faithfully carry out the duties of his office” and that he, “in violation of his constitutional oath, has engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompatible with his constitutional and statutory duties as Secretary of Homeland Security” in numerous ways.

The resolution lists several examples.

One of them is “more than 5,500,000 illegal aliens crossing the United States southern border during Secretary Mayorkas’ term in office, including 20 consecutive months with more than 150,000 illegal border crossings and a 180 percent increase in encounters at the southern border compared to the previous administration.”

Another is that during his tenure, “the apprehension of 98 individuals listed on the Terrorist Screening Database at the southern border during fiscal year 2022, which is more such apprehensions than occurred during the previous 5 years combined, and the apprehension of 69 such individuals d