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By Giulia Carbonaro
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Marjorie Taylor Greene was foiled again by her fellow GOP lawmakers on Monday night when eight Republicans voted with Democrats against her resolution to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
On Monday, the House of Representatives voted on an article of impeachment brought forward by the Georgia MAGA Republican against Mayorkas, whom she accused of having "aided and abetted the complete invasion of our country by deliberately flooding our nation with drugs, terrorists and illegals." Greene had forced a vote on the "privileged" resolution within two legislative days.
The article failed to pass the House with a bipartisan vote of 209 to 201 and referred it to the House Homeland Security Committee.
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The failure of her latest punitive move against a Democrat—after her resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan was also rejected by a number of her fellow Republican lawmakers earlier this month—enraged Greene.
"I'm outraged," Greene said leaving the Capitol building on Monday, as reported by The Hill. "I can assure you that Republican voters will be extremely angry that they've done this."
She further articulated her frustration on social media.
"We just had on the House floor—we had eight Republicans vote with the Democrats to send my article of impeachment back to committee, where articles of impeachments go to die," Greene said in a clip shared on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"They just voted with the Democrats to protect Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas from impeachment, which is absolutely unbelievable," she continued, blaming Mayorkas for the rising levels of migration at the border.
In a later post, Greene added the names of the eight Republicans who voted against her resolution: Darrell Issa of California, Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, Ken Buck of Colorado, Cliff Bentz of Oregon, Mike Turner of Ohio, Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, Tom McClintock of California and John Duarte of California.
Newsweek contacted Greene's spokesperson and Issa and Duarte's offices for comment by email on Tuesday, and Turner, Bentz, Buck, Foxx and McHenry's offices for comment by phone, but did not receive an immediate response.
Issa had previously written on X: "I can't wait to testify at the Mayorkas impeachment—worst homeland secretary ever." He did not add any follow-up comment about why he voted against Greene's resolution.
In a press release on his website, McClintock wrote that while Mayorkas "is the worst cabinet secretary in American history," the grounds for impeachment are "explicitly laid out in the Constitution" and do not cover the DHS secretary's actions.
"Treason and bribery are well defined," McClintock wrote. "But from the beginning, politicians have tried to stretch the meaning of 'high crimes and misdemeanors' to apply to political disagreements, and that is antithetical to the fundamental architecture of the Constitution."
The Californian added: "The House made a mockery of impeachment twice during the last session of Congress. We must not allow the left to become our teachers."
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