The House has reached 185 co-sponsors for an article of impeachment against President Trump, and the chamber plans introduce the measure Monday, the office of Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., told Fox News Saturday.
The White House is warning that if Democrats proceed with impeaching President Trump, it would divide the country at a time that should be reserved for healing.
President-elect Biden on Friday charged that President Trump “isn’t fit to hold the job.” But the president-elect refused to say whether he supported the push by congressional Democrats and handful of Republicans to immediately remove Trump from office either by impeachment or through the use of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
House Democrats are drafting new articles of impeachment against President Trump following a deadly riot at the Capitol Wednesday in a failed attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's presidential victory.
GOP Sen. Ben Sasse said Friday he is willing to consider articles of impeachment against President Trump if they are introduced by the House of Representatives following a violent mob attack by pro-Trump supporters on the nation's Capitol earlier this week.
President-elect Joe Biden has stayed mum amid calls from Democrats to invoke the 25th Amendment or pursue articles of impeachment to thwart the last two weeks of the Trump presidency.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for President Trump's immediate removal from office by way of the 25th Amendment for inciting a violent riot at the Capitol Wednesday in an attempt to stop the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's win.