MTG secures big win with Mayorkas impeachment — but she isn’t finished yet – Washington Examiner

With the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas now under Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) belt, the Georgia Republican is looking for her next win.

The House narrowly voted to impeach Mayorkas in a 214-213 vote on Tuesday, making him the first sitting Cabinet official to be impeached in U.S. history. The vote came after a monthslong effort by Greene to charge the Biden administration with high crimes and misdemeanors, securing a historic win for the congresswoman as she eyes her next target

“It’s proof not only to our conference and ourselves, but it’s proof to the country that when Republicans stop fighting with each other, and we really turn our fire on the Democrats, even with this razor-thin majority, we can hold them accountable,” Greene told the Washington Examiner in an interview. 

The push to impeach Mayorkas was one of several efforts by Greene to punish high-ranking officials, with the Georgia Republican also looking to charge Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves.

Although those efforts have not picked up much steam in the House, Greene has sights set on her next impeachment target: President Joe Biden. 

House Republicans have been investigating the president for months on allegations Biden improperly used his position of power to enrich himself and his family while he was vice president. Up until this point, the Oversight and Judiciary committees have failed to uncover definitive evidence tying Biden to criminal activity or any misconduct that constitutes a high crime or misdemeanor. 

But with the success of Mayorkas’s impeachment, Greene said momentum could be building to do the same to Biden. 

“It is a very serious indicator,” Greene said of Mayorkas’s impeachment. ”People that have been saying that we can’t and we won’t do it, they are wrong. We can and we — I’m not saying we are going to, but we definitely can.”

Greene pointed to the upcoming depositions of Biden’s son Hunter and brother James, which she said could soon result in the drafting of impeachment articles shortly after. 

“Once we finish those, we’re going to put it all together,” she said. “I know we’ll be doing criminal referrals, but it looks like we could be doing articles of impeachment as well.”

It’s not yet clear what the specific charges against Biden would be, but Greene said there are several routes Republicans could take — including a path to impeach the president over his border policies, similar to the articles levied against Mayorkas. 

Greene first introduced articles of impeachment against Mayorkas last May, although that effort largely stalled in the House due to a lack of support. That prompted Greene to file another resolution in November, this time filing the motion as privileged to force a vote on the House floor. 

That vote failed after eight Republicans joined Democrats in shooting down the measure, sparking backlash from Greene, who vowed to introduce it as many times as it took until the measure passed. 

“I had told the speaker and I told everyone that … I’m serious, we’ve got to impeach him,” Greene said. “I said, ‘I’ll make everyone go through it every week. I’m serious about this.’ And Speaker Johnson and [Homeland Security Committee Chairman] Mark Green made a promise to me that they would do it.”

Aside from impeachment, Greene has also pushed to punish her Democratic colleagues in the House by introducing a number of censure resolutions over the last year. Those targets include Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN). 

Lawmakers ultimately voted to censure Tlaib last year, although it was not Greene’s resolution that was adopted. The push to censure Omar has since been stalled in the House, and it remains unclear when it may be brought to the floor for a vote. 

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As a result, Greene is touting Mayorkas’s impeachment as the “first time” the GOP conference has “followed through” on their threats to hold Democrats accountable. 

“For the first time — literally, pretty much for the first time — this entire conference actually followed through and did something we should be doing instead of fighting each other,” Greene said.

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