Senate Democrats just showed voters they will do nothing to hold Joe Biden and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accountable for the disastrous border policies that caused this crisis,
Every Democrat will pay a heavy price in November for willfully refusing to end this border crisis,
President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas to use their remaining executive authorities to help secure our border,
Montanans want real solutions that secure the border, not partisan games from D.C. politicians."
This is the least legitimate, least substantive and most politicised impeachment trial ever in the history of the United States,
If the Senate held a full impeachment trial, the Border crisis evidence would gut the Biden administration like a fish,
We gave your side an opportunity,
It would be unprecedented for the U.S. Senate to dismiss impeachment charges without holding a trial. Every American should be incensed by this."
Sad but true. Democrats are willing to throw the Constitution in the trash to defend DHS Secretary Mayorkas."
Talk about awful precedents. This would set an awful precedent for Congress. Every time there’s a policy agreement in the House, they send it over here and tie the Senate in knots to do an impeachment trial? That’s absurd. That’s an abuse of the process. That is more chaos.”
It would be beneath the Senate’s dignity to shrug off our clear responsibility and fail to give the charges we’ll hear today the thorough consideration they deserve. I will strenuously oppose any effort to table the articles of impeachment and avoid looking the Biden administration’s border crisis squarely in the face.”
I don’t. I think we should move on and get to work on a bipartisan border security deal.”
We want to address this issue as expeditiously as possible,
You’ve gotta hire border patrol agents, you’ve got to hire more people at ICE to enforce border security. You can’t do that with an exercise like they’re engaged with. It’s a partisan exercise and I think it’s a waste of people’s time, but we have to go through it,
I was going to read the articles this morning and I have not yet, ... I still gotta read the articles.”
As befits such a solemn and rare responsibility as convening a court of impeachment, I intend to give these charges my full and undivided attention,
The Senate has a clear obligation under the Constitution and 200 years of precedent: we need to hold a trial. We need to allow the managers to present the evidence. And then every one of us who is following the law should convict and remove Alejandro Mayorkas for aiding and abetting a criminal invasion of the United States of America.”
I’m not changing my dinner plans,
If they do what they say they're gonna do here, this will be the end of the impeachment. They're basically destroying impeachment and the Constitution,
When we convene in trial today to accommodate the wishes of our Republican Senate colleagues, I will seek an agreement for a period of debate time that would allow Republicans to offer a vote on trial resolutions, allow for Republicans to offer points of order and then move to dismiss,