President Donald Trump isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, despite calls for impeachment from some Democratic Party lawmakers.
On Tuesday, Texas Rep. Al Green brought forth a resolution calling for Trump’s impeachment, citing the President’s failure to notify or seek authorization from Congress before the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend.
“I do this because I understand that the Constitution is going to be meaningful or it’s going to be meaningless,” Green said before legislators voted on whether to bring the bill to the floor.
But House Republicans – and Democrats – quickly axed the bill. The tally of a motion to table the bill was 344-79 in favor, with 128 members of the minority party joining with Republicans to kill the measure. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were among the Democratic representatives who voted against the measure.
The vote highlights a split between the progressive and establishment wings of the Democratic Party.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., first called for Trump’s impeachment on X on Sunday.
“The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
Trump struck back at AOC on Truth Social on Tuesday,
“Stupid AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the ‘dumbest’ people in Congress, is now calling for my Impeachment, despite the fact that the Crooked and Corrupt Democrats have already done that twice before,” Trump wrote.
Ocasio-Cortez responded with an accusation that Trump had broken “almost every promise” he made on the campaign trail in just five months.
House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., called the impeachment talk a distraction from the work of stalling Trump’s spending bill.
“At this time, at this moment, we are focusing on what this big, ugly bill is going to do,” he said. “I think anything outside of that is a distraction because this is the most important thing that we can focus on.”
Trump was impeached twice in his first term in 2019 and 2021, but the Senate managed to acquit him both times, thus allowing his return to office. Today’s bill marked the second time Democrats have threatened impeachment since Trump took office in January. Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar introduced articles of impeachment in April, but his fellow Democrats called that a waste of time.
