Marjorie Taylor Greene reintroduces new ploy to ‘fire’ Mayorkas

Marjorie Taylor Greene reintroduces new ploy to ‘fire’ Mayorkas

June 26, 2024 / Kevin harson /


Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, has reintroduced a ploy to “effectively fire” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Greene has been a staunch critic of Mayorkas and the Biden administration as a whole for the massive influx of illegal crossings at the Southern border in recent years. There have been 1,691,251 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encounters at the southern border so far in the 2024 fiscal year, which began in October.

In February, the House voted 214 to 213 in favor of impeaching Mayorkas, accusing him of having “violated his oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States by willfully and systemically refusing to comply with federal immigration laws and acting in a manner subversive of the rule of law.”

Greene was a driving force in Mayorkas’ impeachment. She forced the first vote in the House to impeach Mayorkas in November 2023, which sent her articles of impeachment to the Homeland Security Committee. The committee then voted to advance the measure to the full House floor. However, the Senate ended up rejecting Mayorkas’ impeachment charges, blocking a trial to determine whether Mayorkas would be convicted of said charges.

On Wednesday, Greene proposed an amendment to the 2025 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which would set Mayorkas’ salary at $1.

“My amendment would effectively fire Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as secretary of the Homeland Security for the atrocious job that he is doing with our Southern border and of our overall security of our nation,” Greene said on the House floor. “If the House impeached Secretary Mayorkas, we should certainly not pay him.”

The amendment was passed with a voice vote. The amended bill still has to be passed by the House and then passed on to the Senate. The Democrat-controlled Senate is likely to block any bill with Greene’s amendment.

Newsweek reached out to Greene’s office via email for comment. The U.S. Department of Defense declined to comment.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 01, 2024, in Washington, DC. Greene has reintroduced a ploy to “effectively fire” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for…


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Representative Lauren Underwood, an Illinois Democrat, opposed Greene’s amendment on the House floor.

Underwood said that Mayorkas “plays a critical role in our national security.” She said that Mayorkas “served in his role admirably and has been an honorable public servant for decades.”

“If my majority colleagues were sincere about addressing and ending the humanitarian crisis at the border, they would not have rejected the opportunity to even debate one of the toughest bi-partisan border bills in history simply to appease the desires of those who wish to keep chaos on the border for political gain.”

Underwood was referring to the $118 billion aid package that included $20 bill for securing the southern border that failed to advance within the Senate in February. Some claimed that Republicans who opposed the bill were doing so to appease former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, who supposedly wanted to kill the bill so he could run on the border issue.

Last September, House Republicans Chip Roy of Texas and Claudia Tenney of New York, along with 10 GOP co-sponsors, introduced an amendment to the 2024 Homeland Security Appropriations Act setting Mayorkas’ salary to $1. The measure passed in the House but did not become law.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday, Greene wrote: “Innocent Americans are dying every single day from Secretary Mayorkas’ open border policies…Secretary Mayorkas shouldn’t receive a cent of the taxpayers’ hard-earned money.”