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Longtime Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, announced on Monday that he intends to force a vote on impeaching President Donald Trump, citing federal immigration officers’ killing of two U.S. citizens earlier this year.
Green, who has publicly protested Trump on multiple occasions, introduced what’s called a privileged resolution on the House floor aimed at booting the president out of office. A privileged resolution is a mechanism that allows any lawmaker to force the entire chamber to consider a bill within two legislative days.
That means House GOP leaders will have to hold a vote on the measure by the end of the day on Wednesday.
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The vote is all but guaranteed to be a political headache for Democrats who are fighting to take back the House and Senate in the November midterm elections.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has long demurred on the subject of impeachment, maintaining that Democrats are focused on tackling issues like high living costs that are critical to everyday Americans.
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He and 127 other House Democrats voted with Republicans to quash a previous Trump impeachment effort by Green in June 2025.
But the latest effort could be his last public demonstration against Trump after the 79-year-old progressive lost his primary to a younger Democrat calling for generational change.
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Green was also notably thrown out of both of Trump’s addresses to a joint session of Congress during this term.
During his first address since returning to the White House, Green repeatedly waved his cane at Trump and shouted while the president spoke. At the beginning of Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this year, Green held up a sign that said, “Black People Aren’t Apes.”
Democratic leaders have signaled they are preparing for a flurry of investigations into the Trump administration and the president’s circle if they win the midterms in November.
Green insisted that Democrats did not need to wait for those probes, however, demanding in a letter to House colleagues that a vote on impeaching Trump is held immediately.
“To those who say, ‘Wait until next year’ and ‘Buckle up’ when the investigations start, I say: How many more lives must we lose, and how many more loved ones of victims have to plead for help before the self-evident evidence from videos and President Trump’s own words compel us to act?” Green wrote. “The available overwhelming evidence sufficiently demonstrates that President Trump is unfit and dangerous to our democracy.”
The latest impeachment resolution calls Trump “a great threat to democracy and the Constitution for current high crimes and misdemeanors.”
It cited federal immigration officers’ killing of two American citizens amid a nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration in U.S. cities.
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