{"id":1029518,"date":"2024-02-08T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1029518"},"modified":"2024-05-20T03:24:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T03:24:02","slug":"house-gop-is-focused-on-sham-impeachments-not-securing-the-border-at-the-request-of-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/house-gop-is-focused-on-sham-impeachments-not-securing-the-border-at-the-request-of-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Is Focused on Sham Impeachments, Not Securing the Border \u2013 At the Request of Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to House Republicans focusing on failed impeachment stunts instead of securing the border, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter earning the title of least productive Congress since the Great Depression, the House Republican chaos conference is back this year racking up loss after loss. Instead of focusing on real solutions to secure the border that have support from border patrol agents and Americans on both sides of the aisle, House Republicans have spent this week backtracking on their words and undermining their own professed priorities in order to do the bidding of Donald Trump. Americans want solutions, not stunts \u2013 and they\u2019ll make that clear to Trump and MAGA Republicans at the ballot box in November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

House Republicans\u2019 political stunts are failing as the GOP chaos conference continues to be a clown show.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cHouse vote to impeach Mayorkas fails in stunning defeat for Republican leaders\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Sherman, Punchbowl News<\/a>: \u201cI’ve seen a lot of embarrassing days for different House Republican leadership teams. This one is pretty high on the list.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cOnce Mike Johnson\u2019s speakership was merely implausible. Now it looks incompetent.<\/strong> The rookie Republican leader \u2013 already struggling to wield a tiny, extreme and malfunctioning majority \u2013 suffered a spectacular embarrassment <\/strong>on Tuesday night in a failed vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN<\/a>: \u201cMayorkas impeachment [Trump] cheerled fails\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

House Republicans are more focused on their childish infighting and impeachment shams than securing the border.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans Against Border Enforcement\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cBorder Patrol Supports \u2018Strong\u2019 Immigration Deal. Republicans Don\u2019t Care\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cThe border compromise would represent a dramatic change of immigration law on lines many Republicans have long supported. \u2026 The Mayorkas impeachment effort\u2026 will have zero practical impact on the crisis at the southern border.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump, who is hoping to make immigration a key plank of his presidential campaign, has suggested on Truth Social that approving additional resources for the border would make Republicans \u2018look bad.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cTrump made this clear when he reportedly urged Republicans in Congress to turn against the bipartisan Senate border security bill scheduled for a vote Wednesday so that he could keep the issue alive through the presidential election.<\/strong> His supporters have largely fallen in line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cPlease blame it on me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI think [Republicans] are making a terrible mistake if they vote for the bill.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple House Republicans have warned their own colleagues against politicizing border security and delaying taking action.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Emmer<\/a>: \u201cWhy does it have to be a political issue when it’s the right thing to do to seal our own border and make sure that good people that want to come here for the right reasons are able to come here?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chip Roy<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s time to act with urgency. Urgency means not waiting for the next election.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael McCaul<\/a>: \u201cI think [the border] is a very urgent problem. We can\u2019t wait a year.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan Steil<\/a>: \u201cThe border needs to be secure. We have an opportunity to do that<\/strong>\u2026 I\u2019m less concerned about who gets the win other than making sure the American people win, and the American people win if we truly secure the US-Mexico border.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick McHenry<\/a>: \u201cWe have bipartisan support. \u2026 Take the moment, man.<\/strong> Take the policy win.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson has repeatedly called for action to secure the border and said it \u201cis a job for Congress.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson<\/a>: \u201cOur immigration system is broken. Reforming that system is a job for Congress.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson<\/a>: \u201cThe crisis at our southern border has deteriorated to such an extent that significant action can wait no longer.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson<\/a>: \u201cWe must insist \u2014 must insist \u2014 that the border be the top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson<\/a>: \u201cI do think it\u2019s past time to secure the border.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson<\/a>: \u201cI have said that very clearly from day one, we have to solve the [border] problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to House Republicans focusing on failed impeachment stunts instead of securing the border, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cAfter earning the title of least productive Congress since the Great Depression, the House Republican chaos conference is back this year racking up loss after loss. 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