Both the House and the Senate are on Easter break this week, but they return next week with the House ready to see the Republican majority shrink to just one vote, finding a pathway to approve aid to Ukraine and Israel, while the Senate will get the impeachment resolution against Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas.

During the break Speaker Mike Johnson announced that when the House returns on April 10 their first act of business will be to send the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas to the Senate.  The impeachment passed the House on a party line vote of 214 to impeach and 213 against.  Three Republicans voted against impeachment. The Speaker has told Senate Leader Chuck Schumer that the House will formally send the article of impeachment to the Senate on April 10.  Senator Schumer has announced that the Senate will immediately take up the Mayorkas impeachment and likely quickly dispose of the issue, but Schumer has not yet discussed his specific strategy. 

An impeachment of a cabinet official has not taken place in over 100 years, and while the House can impeach on a simple majority vote, to convict in the Senate requires a 2/3rds majority, something that isn’t going to happen in a closely divided Senate.  Even some Republicans have expresse...

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