The White House is monitoring Mayorkas impeachment — but not actively working the trial
There has been no outreach to moderate Senate Republicans.
The Biden administration is heading into this week’s Senate impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas projecting confidence that the Democratic-controlled chamber will quickly dispose of the matter.
Privately, they aren’t scrambling either.
White House officials have not reached out to the few moderate Senate Republicans most likely to side with them in the first impeachment of a Cabinet secretary in nearly 150 years.
“We speak to the administration from time to time. We haven’t spoken on that topic,” said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) last week.