The Department of Homeland Security so far has spent $3 million of taxpayer money to defend embattled Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas against impeachment by the House of Representatives, according to documents obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.
The DHS contract with a law firm was to cover the cost of a failed attempt to stave off a House impeachment, as well as to defend President Joe Biden’s homeland security secretary in a possible Senate trial.
As first reported Wednesday by the New York Post, Heritage’s Oversight Project obtained 56 pages related to the impeachment process from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Procurement Operations. The $3 million total is enough to employ 70 Border Patrol agents, the Post reported.
The Oversight Project is the watchdog arm of The Heritage Foundation, also the parent organization of…
