Schumer won’t give in to MAGA GOP pols looking to impeach Mayorkas

Sen. Chuck Schumer is pushing back against right-wing demand for a full-blown impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The Democratic Senate majority leader suggested he has no intention of bowing to the demands of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and other MAGA conservatives who object to his plan to brush off the historic House impeachment of a cabinet member.

Cruz “is the one who wants to do nothing on the border,” Schumer said, referring to his vote against the recent bipartisan border security deal.

The group of 12 far right-wing lawmakers has also asked the Senate parliamentarian to order a trial.

They are pushing both Schumer, of New York, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to take the impeachment of Mayorkas seriously.

The House impeached the border security czar by a one-vote margin last week after previously falling a single vote short.

It’s the first time in more than 150 years that a cabinet secretary has been impeached.

MAGA Republicans want to use the Mayorkas impeachment, which calls for the cabinet secretary to be “deported,” to show voters they are taking the border seriously, especially after they killed the bipartisan deal with Democrats that filled most of their own policy demands.

McConnell last week suggested he will side with Schumer and quickly dismiss the effort without a full-blown trial that could paralyze the chamber for at least a couple of weeks.

“I don’t think we’ll have [an] endless trial,” McConnell said.

Some establishment Republican senators have also derided the impeachment as a partisan stunt that cannot be taken seriously.

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) called the Mayorkas impeachment the “dumbest exercise and use of time.”