Top Republican Mark Green who led Alejandro Mayorkas impeachment in the House is 'seriously reconsidering' his retirement plans amid pressure from allies as effort to oust Biden's border chief is likely to die in the Democrat-led Senate later this week

• Green, the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, announced his plans to retire February 14
• His announcement came immediately after the House successfully voted to impeach Mayorkas earlier this month
• Green is now ‘reconsidering’ his retirement plan as the Senate is set to take control of the impeachment process 

The House Republican who led the charge to impeach Department of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas is seriously reconsidering his decision to retire as the articles of impeachment face a turbulent future.

House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., announced his plans to retire at the end of the year one day after the House voted to impeach Mayorkas.

Now, as the Democrat-held Senate may work to minimize the trial and quickly vindicate Mayorkas, Green ‘is reconsidering retirement,’ a source close to the Republican told DailyMail.com.

The two articles of impeachment accuse Mayorkas of failing to enforce immigration law and lying to Congress and about the state of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Mayorkas, 64, is only the second cabinet secretary to be impeached in history, and the first in almost 150 years.

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., is reconsidering his plan to retire

Department of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas is only the second cabinet member to be impeached in U.S. history

Over 20,000 Chinese migrants have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border since October

‘In the last few months, in reading the writings of our Framers, I was reminded of their intent for representatives to be citizen-legislators, to serve for a season and then return home,’ Green wrote February 14 in a statement announcing his plans to retire.

‘With the House having passed H.R. 2 and Secretary Mayorkas impeached, it is time for me to return home.’

His planned resignation came as a shock to many in the conference, especially as many other powerful GOP chairs have similarly decided not to run for reelection.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., and House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, have all announced they will not seek another term.

The articles, though, have yet to be delivered to the Senate from the House. But they are expected to be handed over by the end of the week.

Congressional leaders are hoping to pass government funding before a deadline looming this Friday.

Still, Senate leadership has said they are prepared to start a trial soon.

‘The House impeachment managers will present the articles of impeachment to the Senate following the state work period. Senators will be sworn in as jurors in the trial the next day. Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray will preside,’ Schumer’s office said in a statement.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has signaled Mayorkas he wants a trial soon

Mayorkas is expected to get a quick trial in the Senate, but conservative Republicans have been applying pressure on Senate GOP leadership to go hard on Mayorkas, who has overseen record illegal immigration.

‘Majority Leader Schumer and Senate Democrats intend to dispense with the articles of impeachment by simply tabling both individually,’ 13 Republican Senators said in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell last week.

‘We call on you to join us in our efforts to jettison this approach by Democrats to shirk their Constitutional duty, ensure that the Senate conducts a proper trial, and that every Senator, Republican and Democrat, adjudicates this matter when the Senate returns,’ they wrote.

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