GOP Lawmakers Call for Alejandro Mayorkas to Lose Salary Over Border Crisis

GOP House members have urged for the cancellation of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ paycheck over his alleged failure to stem the border crisis. 
On March 29, 11 Republican members of the lower chamber of Congress co-signed and sent a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger (R-Texas) and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security Chair Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), requesting that not a penny be appropriated to pay Mayorkas (pdf). 
The representatives say in the letter that Mayorkas should not be paid because he has not done his job and is not serving and protecting the American people. 
“As you begin drafting the Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2024, we request that you decrease Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas’ salary to $0 for willfully ignoring his oath to enforce our border security and immigration laws,” reads the letter….}

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