Dozens of House Democrats voted with Republicans to quash yet another impeachment attempt against President Donald Trump — revealing deep fractures in the Democratic caucus just weeks before the November midterms.
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, forced a vote Tuesday on impeaching Trump over federal immigration officials’ alleged involvement in the deaths of two U.S. citizens earlier this year. The move put House Democrats in an impossible position: side with their anti-Trump base or show moderate voters they’re focused on kitchen-table issues instead of political revenge.
The House voted 232 to 147 to table the measure — a procedural maneuver that killed the resolution without requiring members to vote on impeachment itself.
Eighteen House Democrats voted with Republicans to table the resolution. Another 46 — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his entire leadership team — voted “present.”
Nearly 150 Democrats still voted to move forward with impeaching the president.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., ripped the Democrats who supported Green’s stunt.
“Less than two months from the November election, House Democrats are showing the American people they’re the party of obstruction,” Emmer told Fox News Digital. “While Republicans have passed historic tax cuts for American families and anti-fraud legislation to protect taxpayer dollars, Democrats are focused on chaos and appeasing their woke, extremist base.”
Jeffries and his top deputies voted “present” — effectively allowing Republicans to kill the resolution while avoiding taking a public stand. In a statement, Jeffries said impeachment “traditionally requires a comprehensive investigative process, the collection and review of thousands of documents, an exacting scrutiny of the facts, the examination of dozens of key witnesses, congressional hearings, sustained public organizing and the marshaling of the forces of democracy to build a broad national consensus.”
Senior House Democratic leaders added: “None of that serious work has been done, with the Republican majority focused solely on rubber-stamping Donald Trump’s extreme agenda. Accordingly, we will again vote ‘present’ on the motion to table the impeachment resolution as we continue our fight to make life more affordable for everyday Americans, while committing to holding the crooks accountable using every tool available to us beginning on day one.”
Green wasn’t having it. He blasted Jeffries and other Democrats who refused to back his impeachment push during comments to reporters Monday.
“They will acknowledge that what the president is doing is impeachable, but they would have us wait. Well, the Constitution doesn’t have a wait clause in it,” Green said. “I believe that there are some Republicans and Democrats who are considering voting to protect the president. If they’re not considering protecting him, that will be the effect of what they will do when they vote to either table or they vote to send this to a committee for further investigation.”
“The Constitution doesn’t have a wait clause in it.”
This is Green’s second failed attempt to impeach Trump. He previously forced a vote in June 2025, when 128 Democrats joined Republicans in tabling his resolution.
It may also be his last shot — Green was among several Democratic incumbents to lose their primary races earlier this year amid a wider rebellion by left-wing voters against the party establishment.
The vote exposes the tightrope House Democrats are walking heading into November. The party’s base remains obsessed with taking down Trump, but swing-district Democrats know impeachment talk is a losing message with the moderate and independent voters who will decide control of Congress.
Republicans are already using the vote in campaign ads, painting Democrats as more interested in partisan revenge than solving real problems like inflation and the border crisis.
