Minutes before the camera was scheduled for the votes of the floor, Democratic representative Shri Thanedar announced that he would not force a vote to accuse President Donald Trump as planned.
Thaneded’s effort had not only angry Republicans, but also democratic leaders, who said they would work with Republicans to kill their bill.
Thaneded said he was delaying his bill, claiming that he wanted to add to his political trial articles to include Trump’s plans to accept a Qatar Boeing 747 as a gift.
“In the fifteen days since I presented seven articles of trial against President Trump, he has committed more very accusable crimes … After talking with many colleagues, I have decided not to force a vote about the political trial today,” the representative wrote about X. “On the other hand, I will add to my impulse articles and I will continue the support of the Democrats and the Republic to defend the Constitution with me.” “
In this archive photo of April 10, 2025, representative Shri Thanedar arrives at the vote on the budget resolution in the United States Capitol in Washington, DC
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The leaders of the Republican Party of the House of Representatives planned to present a motion to cover the legislation and kill it before the announcement of Thanededar, and the president of the democratic Caucus of the House of Representatives, Pete Aguilar, said that the leaders of his party would join them.
“Our approach is that medical care moves away from the American people. That is the most urgent and terrible of what we could talk about this week. Everything else is a distraction,” Aguilar said in his weekly press conference.
Taking a jab in Thanedar, Aguilar added that while his conference has its differences, “this is a fairly easy call.”
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, described the effort “Another shameful political trick.”
“While the Democrats are launching attacks, preventing the application of the law, playing political games and demonstrating how far they are out of contact: Republicans are working to deliver lower taxes for families, restore the domain of US energy, strengthen border security, restore peace through force and make the government work more efficiently and effectively. The contrast has never been clearer,” Johnson said in a statement.
In a demonstration last month celebrating his first 100 days, Trump, who was accused twice during his first term, said: “Here we go again.” He said that the fact that the Democrats “have no control” on “a silly guy like this” shows “that they no longer have confidence as a party.”
Thanedar presented seven political trial articles against Trump last month, arguing that the president is abusing the power of his office for his own interest and repeatedly challenged the Constitution, among other general positions.
Without the support of the main Democrats in the Chamber or most of their Caucus, Thanedar’s effort was not at any time earlier this week, when he introduced his dismissal resolution as “privileged”, forcing the Chamber to consider legislation within two legislative days.
Thanedar promised to fight.
“Will I succeed this week? Maybe not, but we will continue doing this until we have a victory,” he said in his press conference. “We will continue to fight until we have a victory, until we retire this president of his position for his unconstitutional, illegal and impulse misconduct. We will continue.”
“[House Democratic leaders] He wants to concentrate on other issues, which is fine. I only tell you that, he hears, we can do that, and we can also do this. “
However, their movement would force Democrats to register this issue. Thaneda dismissed the concerns that his efforts could damage vulnerable Democratic colleagues, arguing that Republicans would also have to vote on him.
“We take hard votes every day, every day there is a difficult vote to take. That is my job … They just need to investigate not what I play well in politics, not what the surveys say. We have to do the right thing,” said Thanedar.
Thanededar, who was chosen for the open seat in 2022, faces a hard re -election battle. His companion Democratic representative of Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, a prominent progressive, backed the main challenger of Thanedar, state representative Donavan McKinney, earlier this week.
“I ended with absent members who do not return to their residents,” Tlaib said in an X post, referring to Thanedar.
-Lauren Peller and John Parkinson of ABC News contributed to this report.
