Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) replied to Donald Trump Jr. on Friday for criticizing three Senate Democrats who voted to terminate the impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
“Just a reminder that Republicans are full of it when they whine about the border,” Murphy wrote Friday morning. “They blocked the strong, bipartisan border security bill because Trump instructed them to keep the border chaotic to benefit him politically.”
Murphy was responding to Trump Jr. criticizing Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Jon Tester (D-Mont..) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) — who all face tough re-election battles this year — for “doing [President] Biden’s bidding” by voting to kill this week’s Senate trial of Mayorkas.
“Next time Dems like Bob Casey, Jon Tester and Sherrod Brown try to portray themselves as tough on the border, remember that they just did Biden’s bidding by voting to acquit Mayorkas without a trial,” Trump Jr. wrote in a Thursday post on social media platform X. “By taking that vote, they all just endorsed the invasion at our southern border!”
All three lawmakers voted with their party to dismiss two articles of impeachment, dismissing the possibility of having a lengthy trial.
Murphy was part of a bipartisan group of senators — along with Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) — who negotiated a border security bill that passed the Senate, but was effectively killed by former President Trump when it reached the House.
Senate Republicans issued multiple motions to delay Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) move to avoid an impeachment trial. All attempts failed on party-line votes.
Republicans called out Democrats for ignoring the situation at the southern border where Customs and Border Protection recorded 7.5 million illegal crossings since President Biden took office.
Democrats argued that Republicans were impeaching Mayorkas over policy disagreements, and failed to show any high crimes or misdemeanors that would constitutionally justify just a steep punishment.
