Republicans Have Day Of Epic Failures In Congress
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The party is showing voters a House leader who can’t count votes and a Senate leader incapable of swaying his conference to compromise.
WASHINGTON ― Tuesday was a deeply embarrassing day for Republicans in the U.S. Capitol.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s big push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed spectacularly following high drama and yelling on the House floor, falling short by just one vote. Minutes later, a Republican bill to send U.S. aid to Israel went down in flames due to bipartisan opposition. Earlier in the day, Senate Republicans officially killed the border security package the party had cried out for only months earlier.
“I would have thought they would have known [the whip count]. They’re good on the other side of that,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, told reporters after the impeachment vote failed. “Is it that hard?”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) all but said Democrats outsmarted Republicans by not telling them how many of their members would be present for the impeachment vote. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) had been absent for medical reasons but unexpectedly appeared Tuesday for the vote. His vote made all the difference in tanking the impeachment effort.
“They hid one of their members,” Greene told reporters after the vote. “Waiting till the last minute, watching to see our votes, trying to throw us off on the numbers that we had versus the numbers they had. So, yeah, that was a strategy in play tonight.”
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