House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) condemned Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as he threatened to impeach her if President Donald Trump did not remove her.
The DHS secretary has fallen under heavy criticism for overseeing an immigration surge in Minneapolis that has led to the killings of a pair of 37-year-old citizen observers – Alex Pretti and Renee Good – in the past month, and Jeffries and his leadership deputies called on the president to remove Noem from her role.
“Donald Trump needs to fire Kristi Noem immediately,” Jeffries told “CNN News Central.” “We know that she is a malignant, corrupt, pathological liar. She’s unqualified. She never should have been confirmed by Republicans in the United States Senate. She is creating harm to the American people. Taxpayer dollars are actually being used by the Department of Homeland Security to kill American citizens, and to brutalize law-abiding immigrant families. It’s unacceptable, so she’s got to go.”
“We will commence impeachment proceedings against Kristi Noem in the absence of her being fired,” he added.
Jeffries conceded that impeachment could be a heavy lift in the Republican-controlled Congress, but he compared the effort to the ultimately successful vote to compel the Department of Justice to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“Congress has the power to impeach someone who has committed crimes against the Constitution and the American people, so it’s not virtue signaling,” Jeffries said.
“As you know, the impeachment process is one of the few areas where every single member have the has the privilege to bring a resolution to the floor of the House of Representatives and, at the appropriate time, force an up-or-down vote,” Jeffries said. “By the way, even though we’ve been in the minority, we’ve compelled Republicans to move legislation to release the Epstein files. We’ve compelled Republicans to move legislation to wipe away one of Trump’s most toxic executive orders, which is stripping rights away from more than a million different hardworking federal employees, collective bargaining rights, and, of course, House Democrats, against all odds, were able to move a clean extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits in the minority, and all 213 House Democrats were joined by 17 Republicans to protect the health care that the American people. If we’ve done it before, we can do it again.”
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