"House Impeaches Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas Over Border Crisis"

House Republicans impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for "willful and systemic refusal" to comply with federal immigration law and lying to Congress about the border being "secure," setting up a showdown in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Mayorkas is only the second Cabinet official to be impeached, and while politically vulnerable Senate Democrats have dismissed the impeachment push as "political games," some Republicans in the Senate are vowing to make the case for removal. The Department of Homeland Security denounced the impeachment as a "stunt," and the Senate had briefly considered a bipartisan package to address border enforcement issues, but that was killed under pressure from GOP border hawks the day after the House botched its first impeachment vote.