The party suffered a surprising defeat when they initially tried last week.
WASHINGTON, DC — The Republican-led House on Tuesday night impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over what they say is his failure to enforce immigration law at the southern border, which he denies as partisan and"baseless."
Scalise, who has been undergoing treatment for blood cancer, was absent from last week's vote to impeach Mayorkas -- one of the reasons the GOP-led effort failed. "This administration has removed, returned, or expelled more migrants in three years than the prior Administration did in four years," DHS responded in a memo circulated ahead of Tuesday's vote.
With the vote succeeding on Tuesday, it marks just the second time in U.S. history a Cabinet official has been impeached, after William Belknap in 1876.
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