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The Senate, led by Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, has voted to kill the impeachment DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The vote was 51-48 to kill the first article, with all Dems voting to dismiss and Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski voting present.
The Senate then killed the second article of impeachment by a 51-49 vote, and then voted to adjourn the proceedings.
This is the first time that an impeachment was killed like this in the US Senate.
Texas Congressman and impeachment manager Michael McCaul reacted with a statement.
"Under Secretary Mayorkas’ watch, approximately 9 million people have illegally crossed the border — including more than 300 people on the terror watch list — and more than 200,000 young Americans have died from fentanyl poisoning,” said Rep. McCaul. “Yet Chuck Schumer’s Senate voted to let him off the hook, refusing to hear a single argument in an impeachment trial. Today will go down in history as the day Senate Democrats abandoned their constitutional responsibility, defied centuries of historical precedent, and failed the American people.”