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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas survived a House Republican effort to impeach him.
A motion to impeach Mayorkas, something long sought by GOPers, failed 214-216, with four Republicans joining all Democrats against the motion.
Republicans leaders had sought to impeach Mayorkas over the crisis at the southern border. But Republicans including Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) opposed the measure, arguing that it would set a precedent for Democrats to try to remove cabinet members in a Republican administration.
Mayorkas would have been the first cabinet secretary to be impeached. In 1876, William Belknap, the secretary of war, resigned before a House vote.
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