The Daily Signal - House Fails to Impeach Mayorkas, Ted Cruz Calls for Investigation Into Abortionist, RNC Chair to Step Down | Feb. 7

Episode Date: February 7, 2024

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The House’s failure to impeach Mayorkas. Conservative leaders call for repeal of FACE Act. Sen. Ted Cruz demands investigation of abortionist. Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has offered to step down. Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Wednesday, February 7. Here are today's headlines. The House of Representatives voted on Tuesday night against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The final vote was 214 to 216. The vote on two articles of impeachment was largely along party lines. Every single Democrat voted against impeaching Mayorkas along with four Republicans. Republican representatives Mike Gallagher, Wisconsin, Ken Buck of Colorado, and Tom McClintock of California, all voted against impeaching Mayorkas, along with Blake Moore of Utah. But Moore originally voted in favor of impeaching Mayorkas, which tied the vote at 215 to 215.

But per House rules, a tie vote automatically loses in the House and is not allowed to be brought back to the floor for a vote. So by more switching his vote to know, that gives Republicans another opportunity to impeach Mayorkas. In other words, it was a tactical move by more. The House's first article of impeachment against Mayorkas alleges that the Homeland Security Secretary has failed to secure America's border and enforce immigration laws, instead executing policies that incentivize legal immigration. The House's second article of impeachment contends that Mayorkas is in breach of the public trust and knowingly made false statements both to Congress and to the American people. A spokesman for House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the House will make another attempt to

impeach Mayorkas. The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Mark Green, said he's disappointed in the outcome of the vote, but pledged this is not the end of our efforts to hold Secretary Mayorkas accountable. In this afternoon, the Senate voted on the so-called border bill that also included funding for Ukraine and Israel. That was a procedural vote on whether it would move forward on the Senate floor. Well, that vote failed. So it appears for now that bill is dead. Conservative leaders are calling on House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, to pass the Face Act Repeal Act of 2023 as soon as possible. The Daily Seagull's Mary Margaret Ollahan was the first to break the news on this.

this story. But what is the FACE Act? The FACE Act is supposed to protect not only abortion clinics, but also pregnancy centers and places of worship. But according to House leadership, the FACE Act was never used to protect pro-life pregnancy centers or churches until Republicans took back the House. House leaders promised to end President Joe Biden's reign of woke and weaponized government. Conservative members of Congress wrote in a letter today that in the aftermath of additional pro-life activists being convicted by the Biden administration under the Face Act for peacefully protesting outside an abortion business, we respectfully urge you to take immediate legislative action to protect peaceful pro-life activists from the Biden administration's weaponized Department of Justice and

an unconstitutional law. That letter was led by advancing American freedom and is signed by Kristen Hawkins of Students for Life, Tom McCluskey of Catholic Votes, and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, just to name a few. The letter also comes on the heels of a Nashville Tennessee jury finding six pro-life activists guilty of violating the FACE Act, resulting from their peaceful protest in the hallway outside a Mount Juliet abortion clinic in March of 2021. The pro-life activists phase up to 11 years in prison, according to the Daily Wire. Did a D.C. abortionist illegally abort babies in violation of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

Senator Ted Cruz has called for Washington, D.C. medical examiner to conduct a proper investigation into that question. Our own Mary Margaret O'Lehann broke the news on this story as well. A lawyer has alleged that the Department of Justice had advised the medical examiner to discard the remains of five aborted preemie-sized babies. Those babies' remains are from an abortion clinic in a District of Columbia neighborhood. Pro-life activists believe that the baby's bodies are evidence that a D.C. abortionist was performing illegal abortions, but for two years now, D.C. authorities have stonewalled any questions about the baby's death. Cruz told the daily signal that tragically, the D.C. Medical Examiner's office is in possession of the remains of babies

who were victims of late-term abortions. And Cruz added that the DOJ is now pressuring the medical examiner to destroy evidence and dispose of the remains. Instead of investigating whether these late-term abortions violated the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, the DOJ is focused on destroying evidence and prosecuting pro-life protesters, according to Senator Cruz. Now, Cruz previously accused the DOJ in August of 2023 of allegedly targeting pro-life activists while failing to properly investigate the slew of attacks on pro-life pregnancy resource centers throughout the country. Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has offered to step down after the South Carolina GOP presidential primary. That's according to the New York Times. She will reportedly

resign to allow former President Donald Trump to choose a new RNC chairman. The primary is on February 24th, so McDaniel has a short tenure left. The Times reports that Trump will likely choose the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, Michael Watley. However, the position requires a vote, so it's possible another person will be elected. McDaniel has faced pressure from Trump and others because of poor finances of the RNC ahead of the 2024 presidential election, also according to the times. Trump said on true social on Monday after meeting with McDaniel that while she is currently head of the RNC, he'll be making a decision a day after the South Carolina primary as to my recommendation for R&C growth.

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