Senate Republicans are stepping up pressure on Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to support a full impeachment trial of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, warning that chamber Majority Leader Chuck Schumer doesn't want to hold a vote on the GOP House-passed impeachment resolution.
"Chuck Schumer is trying to break over 200 years of Senate precedent by tabling the impeachment trial," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote Wednesday on his X account. "This would deny the American people the chance to hear the evidence about Biden’s lawless open border policy."
Before the GOP-led House formally passed two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., predicted that Schumer, a New York Democrat, would attempt to block a Senate trial from taking place but it's unclear how Schumer intends to do it.
Manchin said he personally wants to “get rid of it as quick as possible.”