US Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has introduced a long-shot privileged resolution to impeach President Biden over his "dereliction of duty" and "abuse of power" in handling the migrant crisis at the border with Mexico.
House Democrats are expected to move to table the resolution, which would block the measure from coming up for a vote.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden over his handling of the southern border Tuesday evening.
Boebert, a member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, brought the impeachment articles to the floor as a privileged resolution to force a vote on the matter later this week. She is seeking to impeach Biden for his administration's immigration policies.
In a speech on the House floor, Boebert said Biden's handling of the southern border demonstrates that he has "acted in a manner grossly incompatible with the rule of law."
"The American people can no longer be subjected to a President who refuses to secure our borders," Boebert wrote in a tweet. "He is not fit to remain as Commander in Chief."
White House spokesperson Ian Sams dismissed Boebert's decision to bring articles of impeachment against Biden as a stunt that distracts from working for her constituents.
"Instead of working with @POTUS on the issues that matter most to Americans, like jobs and inflation and health care, extreme House Republicans are staging baseless political stunts that do nothing to help real people, just to try to get attention for themselves," Sams wrote on Twitter.
Republicans have frequently targeted the Biden administration over the southern border, but until now they have mostly focused their ire on Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. House Republicans launched an investigation into Mayorkas' handling of the border last week.
Boebert introduced the articles of impeachment against Biden just hours after his son, Hunter Biden, struck a deal with the Justice Department to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and participate in a pretrial program to resolve a firearm offense. Many Republicans have criticized the plea deal as being too lenient.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has also pledged to force votes on her efforts to impeach Biden. Greene is also seeking to impeach Mayorkas, FBI Director Christopher Wray, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves.
Rep. Lauren Boebert stated: “Joe Biden willfully abandoned his duty as President of the United States and violated his constitutional oath to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed’ by failing to ensure the national security of the United States and its citizens. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris handed over billions of dollars of American-made weapons to the very scum of the earth that we spent $2 trillion fighting. The Biden regime is not being held accountable. There have been no resignations, no indictments, no investigations, no congressional oversight, no outcry from the mainstream media, and no apologies—so I’m stepping up to hold Biden and Harris accountable by filing articles of impeachment for giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies and colluding with the Taliban.
“And let me be clear, Vice President Harris is complicit in all of this. She can’t hide as the incompetent Border czar, and she can’t hide from her moral and legal duty to remove Joe Biden via the 25th Amendment due to his clear inability to ‘discharge the powers and duties of his office.’ Biden is supposed to be the commander-in-chief, but he forgot the name of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, and the Secretary of Defense. His indecision, incompetence, and mental failings cost American lives, and Kamala had a duty to step up and remove Biden from office. She failed, and now 13 American servicemembers are dead. One way or another, Kamala needs to be impeached for her failure to step up and stop this avoidable catastrophe.”
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