Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is going to pay the "public relations price" for the bad border policies of his boss, President Joe Biden.
Those policies led to Mayorkas getting impeached by House Republicans on Tuesday night, 214-213.
"This is the Biden policy, but Mayorkas has been an uncooperative Cabinet secretary. He's violated the law, he's not been truthful to Congress, and Congress is fed up with it," Hill told Fox Business earlier Tuesday. "So this is like the ultimate effort by Congress to say, 'Look, you don't have your act together at the Cabinet agency, and the president certainly doesn't have his act together,' so we're taking this action."
The first effort last week failed 216-214, with Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, changing his vote to "nay" in order to break a tie, allowing the resolution to be reconsidered.
Mayorkas said he won't resign, but he's going down in the history books nonetheless, Hill said.
"The president could take executive action to do it today," Hill said. "It doesn't need more money. It needs action. And this is what's disappointing to people, and that's why Mayorkas is going to pay this public relations price by being impeached for the first time since 1876."
The three Republican holdouts last week held out again Tuesday night: Reps. Ken Buck, R-Colo., Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Tom McClintock, R-Calif. But House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., who missed last week's vote for health reasons, cast the vote to clinch impeachment.
Gallagher announced after last week's vote that he would not seek reelection.
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