Mayorkas impeachment DELAYED: Speaker Mike Johnson pushes back sending articles to the Senate after Republicans whined a failed vote would ruin their 'news cycle'

• The decision to push the delivery comes one day before the Senate was set to receive the impeachment articles on Wednesday evening 
• Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., alluded that Schumer had planned to jam the entire impeachment into a shortened week
• Republicans wanted to ensure the Senate has proper time to litigate the matter
• READ MORE: What’s next for Alejandro Mayorkas impeachment?

Speaker Mike Johnson is delaying sending the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate after pressure from his GOP colleagues.

The latest development in the ongoing Mayorkas impeachment saga comes just one day before the Senate was set to receive the impeachment articles, which would have immediately started a trial for Biden’s embattled border chief.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, confirmed to DailyMail.com that Johnson agreed to delaying the article’s transmission to ensure the Senate has proper time to litigate the matter.

Whether Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer actually decides to hold a trial, however, is up in the air.

‘Many House and Senate members think Johnson’s timing is dumb, because a Wednesday night delivery [and] Thursday afternoon floor fight aren’t enough time to win the news cycle and to hammer the fight in Washington,’ a senior Senate aide told DailyMail.com.

Migrants mostly form Central America wait in line to cross the border at the Gateway International Bridge into the US from Matamoros, Mexico

The House passed articles of impeachment against Mayorkas in February, but Speaker Mike Johnson has yet to deliver the articles to the Senate

It was reported that Johnson was planning on sending the articles to the Senate on Wednesday, but after opposition to that plan from GOP Senators, the articles will now be delivered next week

Embattled DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas was formally impeached by the House in February over his handling of the southern border migrant crisis

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., similarly alluded that Schumer had planned to jam the entire impeachment into a shortened week, not giving the Senate enough time to discuss the charges the House brought against Mayorkas.

‘Now originally, Senator Schumer had planned to do this on a Thursday when everybody is trying to get back to their district. Isn’t that special,’ he said at a press conference Tuesday.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, took issue with Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer’s anticipated plan to quickly quash the impeachment trial in the Senate.

‘Chuck Schumer intends to nuke the impeachment clause of the United States Constitution,’ he said.

‘And make no mistake if this precedent is set, it will not be the last time it is used.’

Embattled DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas was formally impeached by the House in February over his handling of the southern border migrant crisis.

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

The White House, meanwhile, has called Republican’s impeachment effort a ‘petty political’ move, saying ‘history will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship.’

Texas National Guard soldiers install border fencing layered with concertina wire near the Rio Grande river on April 2

Immigrants file into a U.S. Customs and Border Protection bus after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border

Mayorkas, however, has overseen consecutive record breaking years for migrant apprehensions. Apprehension records were set in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Last year alone, over 2.4 million migrants were apprehended while crossing into the U.S., according to Customs and Border Protection data, yet another record.

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