Al Green and that idiot of AOC got kicked in the ass by their own. Both should retire, they need intelligent people that know when to open your mouth and when to shut up.
128 Democrats join House GOP to block progressive's bid to impeach Trump
Dozens of Democrats joined Republicans to kill the measure by Rep. Al Green
The House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines to quash a lone progressive lawmaker's bid to impeach President Donald Trump Tuesday afternoon.
Lawmakers agreed to table the measure in a 344–79 vote. A vote to table is a procedural mechanism allowing House members to vote against consideration of a bill without having to vote on the bill itself.
The resolution was offered by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who was infamously ejected from Trump's address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year for repeatedly interrupting the president.
A majority of House Democrats joined Republican lawmakers to kill Green's resolution, a sign of how politically caustic the effort appears to be. Just 79 Democrats voted to proceed with the impeachment vote, while 128 voted to halt it in its tracks.
Liberals who joined Republicans include all three members of House Democratic leadership – House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, R-N.Y., House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., voted to table the measure.
Green, who has threatened to impeach Trump before, said his latest bid is aimed at the president's strikes on Iran from over the weekend.
"I did not come to Congress to be a bystander while a president abuses power and devolves American democracy into authoritarianism with himself as an authoritarian president," Green said in a statement Tuesday morning.
"President Trump’s unauthorized bombing of Iran constitutes a de facto declaration of war. No president has the right to drag this nation into war without the authorization of the people’s representatives."
Other progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called for Trump's impeachment over the strikes in Iran.
Trump mocked those progressives in a lengthy Truth Social post Tuesday, taunting them to "make my day."
"She better start worrying about her own Primary, before she thinks about beating our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, whose career is definitely on very thin ice!" Trump wrote. "She and her Democrat friends have just hit the Lowest Poll Numbers in Congressional History, so go ahead and try Impeaching me," he posted.
The push has put House Democratic leaders in a difficult spot as well. Jeffries sidestepped questions on progressives calling to oust Trump during a press conference Monday.
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128 Democrats join House GOP to block progressive's bid to impeach Trump
Dozens of Democrats joined Republicans to kill the measure by Rep. Al Green
The House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines to quash a lone progressive lawmaker's bid to impeach President Donald Trump Tuesday afternoon.
Lawmakers agreed to table the measure in a 344–79 vote. A vote to table is a procedural mechanism allowing House members to vote against consideration of a bill without having to vote on the bill itself.
The resolution was offered by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who was infamously ejected from Trump's address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year for repeatedly interrupting the president.
A majority of House Democrats joined Republican lawmakers to kill Green's resolution, a sign of how politically caustic the effort appears to be. Just 79 Democrats voted to proceed with the impeachment vote, while 128 voted to halt it in its tracks.
Liberals who joined Republicans include all three members of House Democratic leadership – House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, R-N.Y., House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., voted to table the measure.
Green, who has threatened to impeach Trump before, said his latest bid is aimed at the president's strikes on Iran from over the weekend.
"I did not come to Congress to be a bystander while a president abuses power and devolves American democracy into authoritarianism with himself as an authoritarian president," Green said in a statement Tuesday morning.
"President Trump’s unauthorized bombing of Iran constitutes a de facto declaration of war. No president has the right to drag this nation into war without the authorization of the people’s representatives."
Other progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called for Trump's impeachment over the strikes in Iran.
Trump mocked those progressives in a lengthy Truth Social post Tuesday, taunting them to "make my day."
"She better start worrying about her own Primary, before she thinks about beating our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, whose career is definitely on very thin ice!" Trump wrote. "She and her Democrat friends have just hit the Lowest Poll Numbers in Congressional History, so go ahead and try Impeaching me," he posted.
The push has put House Democratic leaders in a difficult spot as well. Jeffries sidestepped questions on progressives calling to oust Trump during a press conference Monday.
128 Democrats join House GOP to block progressive's bid to impeach Trump
The House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines to crush Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green's bid to impeach President Donald Trump.
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