The House of Representatives on April 16 formally presented to the Senate two counts of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis. The process kicks off a trial in the upper chamber starting on April 17, but it is expected to be quickly dealt with by Democrats before a full hearing.
Eleven House members previously named as impeachment managers walked from the lower chamber through Statuary Hall in the Capitol and then to the Senate in a brief ceremony that has been repeated only 17 times since the first Congress in 1789. House Democrats did so twice after impeaching former President Donald Trump in 2020 and 2021.
