Top House Democrat Aguilar dismisses attempts to impeach Trump
Rep. Pete Aguilar made the comments a day after Rep. Shri Thanedar announced he had filed seven articles of impeachment against Trump.
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House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar on Tuesday dismissed attempts to impeach President Trump.
“Impeachment is, at times, a tool that can be used. This president is no stranger to that; he’s been impeached twice,” Aguilar told reporters in the Capitol, according to The Hill news outlet. “But we don’t have any confidence that House and Senate Republicans would do their jobs. And so this is not an exercise that we’re willing to undertake.”
The California congressman made the comments a day after Michigan Democratic Rep. Shri Thanedar announced he had filed seven articles of impeachment against Trump. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, has also teased filing impeachment articles.
Democrats have faced liberal criticism for not aggressively combating Trump, which House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has denied.
“We’re going to continue to show up, stand up and speak up in a variety of ways inside the Capitol, outside the Capitol, on the Capitol steps, in Democratic districts and Republican districts and throughout America,” Jeffries said Monday.
Aguilar echoed Jeffries’ comments on Tuesday.
“Right now, we will deal with the tools in front of us,” Aguilar said. “The policies that he and House Republicans have placed forward – which are reckless cuts to the health care system, to our supplemental nutrition that is relied on by women and children and families across this country – those are the policies that we’re going to push back against. And those are the items that the American public is paying attention to.”
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