The Democratic-held chamber approved a resolution urging the executive branch to push Trump out of the White House because he helped to foment last week s deadly attack on the Capitol. The House approved the measure in a 223-205 vote. One Republican, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, supported it, and no Democrats voted against it.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had pressed Pence to remove the president. She said that if the vice president did not act, the chamber would vote Wednesday to make Trump the first president ever impeached twice. The House looked all but certain to charge the president with high crimes and misdemeanors after Pence rejected the 25th Amendment route.
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Jan 13, 2021
Trumpâs Second Impeachment Will Be An Impeachment Like No Other
Trump will be impeached an unprecedented second time for being âan imminent threatâ to the nation.
Three U.S. presidents have been impeached by the House. President Donald Trump is about to be the first to be impeached twice â and for the most serious impeachment charge in history: inciting an insurrection that left five dead as part of a plot to keep him in power by forcing Congress to overturn the results of an election he lost.
The House of Representatives plans to vote to impeach Trump on Wednesday. Itâs unclear what will happen next and whether the (soon-to-be-formerly) Republican-controlled Senate will launch a trial within the final days of Trumpâs term.
President Trump signed four executive orders on Saturday granting Americans financial relief in a number of areas, however, the actions did not provide any.
With at least five Republicans joining their push to impeach President Donald Trump over the storming of the U.S. Capitol, Democrats in the House of Representatives stood poised for a history-making vote to try to remove the president from office.