Lauren Boebert’s move left Republican leaders looking for an off-ramp to avoid an up-or-down vote on articles of impeachment, which would have divided Republicans and forced those from moderate districts to take a more difficult vote. Aside from the reality that Marjorie Taylor Greene never brought her impeachment bill to a floor vote because it was only a stunt, Boebert made it even more humiliating, forcing the GOP to send it to committee.
By a vote of 219 to 208, the House referred two articles of impeachment against Mr. Biden — one for abuse of power and one for dereliction of duty — to the Homeland Security and Judiciary
House Rs who voted to impeach Biden today (and how their seats voted)—
Anthony D’Esposito (Biden +15)
David Valadao (Biden +13)
Mike Garcia (Biden +12)
John Duarte (Biden +11)
Mike Lawler (Biden +10)
POTUS Biden has presided over the largest spike in illegal migration at the southern border in decades. During the 2022 fiscal year, Border Patrol agents arrested migrants who crossed the border illegally more than 2.2 million times. The influx is part of a global migration trend, with people fleeing extreme poverty, violence and unstable regimes. It also led to large numbers of migrants crossing the border during the Trump administration.
In the past month, however, the number of crossings has decreased significantly after the Biden administration introduced new border policies that restrict access to asylum and created new legal pathways.
Ms. Boebert’s decision to push forward with her articles of impeachment frustrated many Republicans in the conference, who want to address border policies but concede that there is no clear evidence of crimes by Mr. Biden or members of his cabinet that would meet the bar of high crimes and misdemeanors warranting removal from office.
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