U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, criticized Republicans who are pushing to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
On Thursday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., notified Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that the House of Representatives would formally send over the impeachment articles to his chamber on April 10.
In his letter to Schumer, Johnson urged him to hold an impeachment trial "expeditiously."
"As Speaker and impeachment managers of the U.S. House of Representatives, we write to inform you that we will present to you upon the Senate’s return, on April 10, 2024, the duly passed articles of impeachment regarding Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. We urge you to schedule a trial of the matter expeditiously," Johnson wrote.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-NY, talks reporters as he returns to the U.S. Capitol following meetings at the White House on February 27, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Schumer‘s office told Fox News Digital that the Senate would initiate the impeachment trial once it receives the impeachment articles.
"As we have said previously, after the House impeachment managers present the articles of impeachment to the Senate, senators will be sworn in as jurors in the trial the next day. Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray will preside."
The trial is highly unlikely to result in a conviction.
Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind and Julia Johnson contributed to this report.
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