A House Republican lawmaker is filing articles of impeachment against Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, over both her handling of the border and knowledge, if any, of President Biden’s alleged cognitive decline.
Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is accusing Harris of breaching public trust and of willfully refusing to uphold U.S. immigration law in two impeachment articles, obtained by Fox News Digital.
The former article on public trust accused Harris of having ‘knowingly misled the people of the United States and the Congress of the United States, principally to obfuscate the physical and cognitive well-being of the President of the United States, Joe Biden.’
It comes as a growing number of Republican lawmakers question what Harris knew and when about Biden’s mental state after even allies observed that it had worsened over the course of the 81-year-old’s White House term.
The latter article is targeted at Harris’s handling of the crisis at the southern border over her role as the Biden administration’s ‘border czar.’ She was tasked early on in the administration with addressing the root causes of mass migration from Central and South America.
It’s now the cornerstone of GOP-led attacks against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, as states across the country continue to struggle with the migrant crisis, though the number of border crossings has somewhat slowed in recent months compared to the record numbers seen last year.
‘Kamala Devi Harris has demonstrated extraordinary incompetence in the execution of her duties and responsibilities, a stark refusal to uphold the existing immigration law, and a palpable indifference to people of the United States suffering as a result of the ongoing southern border crisis in the United States,’ the impeachment articles state.
‘During her tenure as the designated border czar, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency ‘encountered’ nearly 302,000 illegal aliens at the southwest border in December 2023, the highest monthly total ever recorded and representing 4 consecutive months of over 240,000 illegal alien ‘encounters.”
Ogles’ impeachment articles are the latest update in the House GOP’s legislative offensive against Harris ever since she took up Biden’s mantle on Sunday.
Biden caught millions of Americans by surprise on Sunday afternoon when he announced he would drop out of the presidential race after mounting pressure to do so by fellow Democrats.
Just as Ogles introduced his legislation on Tuesday, the House Rules Committee advanced a resolution by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., to condemn Harris over the border crisis. That bill is expected to get a House-wide vote sometime this week.
Fox News Digital reached out to Harris’ office for comment.
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