Once Mike Johnson’s speakership was merely implausible. Now it looks incompetent.

The rookie Republican leader – already struggling to wield a tiny, extreme and malfunctioning majority – suffered a spectacular embarrassment on Tuesday night in a failed vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The drama undermined what was already a questionable case for impeachment – more over policy disagreements than the constitutional standard of treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors.

And it told a story of a House in utter disarray.

In a stunning blow to Republican leaders, the House rejected an effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday after a number of Republicans joined Democrats in opposing it.

The final vote was 214 to 216.

House lawmakers failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who Republicans said has failed to enforce U.S. immigration laws and stop people from entering the country illegally from Mexico. 

The near-party-line vote on the GOP-led measure was 214 in favor to 216 against. Mayorkas would have been the first sitting cabinet official to be impeached in the nation’s history, underscoring the fierce politics and finger pointing over immigration policy.

House Republicans fell short Tuesday night of impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on charges of “willful and systemic refusal to comply” with federal immigration law and lying to Congress about the border being “secure.”

The resolution affirming two articles of impeachment against President Biden’s chief border enforcement officer failed almost along party lines — but with four Republicans crucially joining all 212 Democrats to vote against the resolution and the remaining 214 GOPers voting to impeach the 64-year-old DHS chief.

For the second time this term, Republicans are pursuing an impeachment process with no evidence to justify it. This time, however, they might actually be able to impeach their target: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a Biden administration official they’re trying to scapegoat on the issue of immigration.

Republicans on the House Committee on Homeland Security voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, sending the issue to a vote by the full House of Representatives, as Republicans lay blame on the Biden-appointed director for the ongoing migrant crisis at the southern border.

The committee voted 18-15, with Democrats calling the impeachment effort a “gross, gross injustice.”

House Republicans released impeachment articles against President Joe Biden's Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday.