FBI Director Christopher Wray and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are both set to appear before the House Judiciary Committee for separate hearings sometime next month before lawmakers leave town for August recess, a source familiar confirmed to the Washington Examiner.
The hearings are part of regularly scheduled meetings with top administration officials that lawmakers conduct several times a year. However, these appearances come as the two officials have endured tough scrutiny by House Republicans, particularly those who sit on the powerful Judiciary Committee.
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Mayorkas’s appearance comes as he has faced several calls for impeachment in recent months for his handling of the southern border, which has experienced a surge of illegal immigration over the last three years. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was the most recent member to introduce articles of impeachment against the Homeland Security secretary last month during the Georgia Republican’s “impeachment week.”
Greene also filed articles of impeachment against Wray last month, accusing the FBI director of intimidating those who are “deemed enemies of the Biden regime” and politicizing the agency to target conservatives. The Georgia Republican also accused Wray of shielding Biden and his son Hunter from criminal investigations, citing a subpoenaed FD-1023 form that the FBI has not to turn over to House leadership.
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“That being an unclassified form, he should easily be able to hand it over. But the fact that he hasn’t handed it over is showing that he’s hiding Joe Biden,” Greene told the Washington Examiner last month. “We know that it has information of a foreign national paying then-Vice President Joe Biden in order for him to make certain policy decisions, and that’s a pay-to-play scheme — highly illegal. It’s an impeachable offense. Not just impeachable. He can be prosecuted for that.”
Wray is expected to testify before the panel sometime in mid-July, while Mayorkas is set to appear the week before the House leaves for its monthlong recess. It’s not yet clear what dates the two will appear.
