The amendment to withhold the salary was introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs from Arizona, and passed in a 193 to 173 vote, per Fox News. Only Republican voted against the amendment.Â
he House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to block Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s salary, as part of a larger appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The amendment to withhold the salary was introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs from Arizona, and passed in a 193 to 173 vote, per Fox News. Only one Republican voted against the amendment.
The amendment prohibits the DHS from using funds in the bill to pay Mayorkas, but a different amendment that would have brought Mayorkas’s salary to zero failed.
“Taxpayers should not be paying an unelected bureaucrat who was impeached by the House,” Biggs posted to X prior to the vote. “That’s why I sponsored an amendment to this year’s Homeland Security Appropriations Act to prohibit funding to be used for the salary of DHS Secretary Mayorkas.”
Taxpayers should not be paying an unelected bureaucrat who was impeached by the House.
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) June 26, 2024
That's why I sponsored an amendment to this year's Homeland Security Appropriations Act to prohibit funding to be used for the salary of DHS Secretary Mayorkas.
The move comes after House Republicans voted to impeach Mayorkas over his handling of the immigration crisis on the United States’s southern border in February. But the Senate refused to hold a trial that would remove Mayorkas from power.
By Misty Severi
