Johnson says House will hold Mayorkas impeachment vote "as soon as possible"

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will vote on whether to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas "as soon as possible," moving forward with punishing the secretary over the administration's handling of the U.S.-Mexico border as early as next week.

Johnson also warned that a Senate draft proposal to overhaul key parts of the nation's immigration system "would have been dead on arrival in the House," raising further questions about the future of ongoing immigration talks in the upper chamber.

In a letter to colleagues on Friday, Johnson alleged that President Biden and Mayorkas have "willfully ignored and actively undermined our nation's immigration laws," and said the House Homeland Security Committee would advance articles of impeachment against the secretary when lawmakers return to Washington next week. The committee recently held impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill.