On June 24, 2025, the House of Representatives voted 344 to 79 to block a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump, introduced by Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas. The overwhelming vote, which included 128 Democrats joining all 216 Republicans, signaled how little appetite there is\u2014even among Democrats\u2014for launching another impeachment process against the former president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Green\u2019s resolution accused Trump of abuse of power for ordering a series of military airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites without congressional approval. Green said the action was a clear violation of the Constitution, which gives Congress\u2014not the president\u2014the sole power to declare war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Donald J. Trump\u2026 abused the powers of the presidency when he disregarded the doctrine of separation of powers,\u201d the resolution stated. Green argued that Trump \u201cdragged this nation into war without the authorization of the people\u2019s representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Green defended his push, telling reporters, \u201cI did not come to Congress to be a bystander while a president abuses power and devolves American democracy into authoritarianism with himself as an authoritarian president.\u201d He added, \u201cEither the Constitution is meaningful, or it is meaningless. I choose for it to be meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although some progressive Democrats supported the resolution, House Democratic leadership was firmly against it. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Whip Katherine Clark, and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar all voted to kill the measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many Democrats are wary of impeachment efforts after the two failed attempts during Trump\u2019s first term. Rep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan had floated a similar impeachment idea earlier this year but withdrew his measure under heavy internal opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, however, stood with Green. She had called for Trump\u2019s impeachment over the weekend after the strikes on Iran, which she labeled a \u201cgrave violation\u201d of the Constitution. She wrote on X, \u201cHe has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rep. Ro Khanna of California and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky also pushed back on the strike, introducing a War Powers Resolution aimed at reining in Trump\u2019s ability to use military force without Congressional authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still, Democratic leaders hesitated to back impeachment. Jeffries commented, \u201cCongress must be fully and immediately briefed in a classified setting,\u201d but stopped short of supporting Green\u2019s effort or labeling Trump\u2019s actions as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the vote, President Trump took to Truth Social with a series of personal attacks aimed at Green and especially Rep. Ocasio-Cortez. He mocked the idea of impeachment and belittled his critics, posting, \u201cShe and her Democrat friends have just hit the Lowest Poll Numbers in Congressional History, so go ahead and try Impeaching me, again, MAKE MY DAY!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He called Ocasio-Cortez \u201cstupid\u201d and said she was \u201cone of the dumbest people in Congress.\u201d Trump then turned his fire on other progressive Democrats, writing, \u201cCrockett, who is a seriously Low IQ individual, or Ilhan Omar, who does nothing but complain about our Country, yet the failed country that she comes from doesn\u2019t have a government, is drenched in crime and poverty, and is rated one of the worst in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also brought up AOC\u2019s rumored plans to challenge Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in 2028. \u201cShe better start worrying about her own Primary before she thinks about beating our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin\u2019 Chuck Schumer, whose career is definitely on very thin ice!\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He concluded by taunting his opponents again: \u201cMAKE MY DAY!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez did not remain silent. She responded to Trump\u2019s attacks on social media, writing, \u201cMr. President, don\u2019t take your anger out on me\u2014I\u2019m just a silly girl. Take it out on whoever convinced you to betray the American people and our Constitution by illegally bombing Iran and dragging us into war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In another post, she accused Trump of violating his own campaign promises. \u201cIt only took you 5 months to break almost every promise you made,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ocasio-Cortez and others insisted that Trump\u2019s actions not only bypassed Congress but put the country at risk of entering another long and costly Middle Eastern conflict. \u201cThis isn\u2019t about partisanship. It\u2019s about whether any president can bypass Congress to bomb another country. The Constitution says no,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The airstrikes that sparked the controversy targeted Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. The administration described it as a limited and necessary action to prevent Iran from escalating further in its conflict with Israel. Trump later announced that a ceasefire had been brokered, calling it a \u201cspectacular military success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaker Mike Johnson defended Trump\u2019s actions, claiming they were \u201cclearly within President Trump\u2019s Article II powers as Commander in Chief.\u201d Johnson added, \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t even be in dispute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But critics, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, blasted that reasoning. \u201cImagine being in Congress and arguing against Congressional authority. They\u2019re ready to throw away their own war powers just so Trump can bomb whoever he wants with zero oversight,\u201d Omar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even some Republicans voiced concerns. Rep. Thomas Massie wrote, \u201cThis is not Constitutional,\u201d and Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio added that Trump\u2019s decision \u201cmay prove just,\u201d but was hard to justify legally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the immediate effort to impeach Trump over the Iran strikes is dead, the fight over presidential war powers is heating up. Democrats like Khanna and AOC are calling for tighter restrictions on unilateral military action. Some Republicans agree. But others believe the president acted within his legal rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel holds, the political battle at home continues. Trump remains defiant, daring his opponents to try impeaching him again. And AOC, despite the failure of the resolution, has made clear that she sees the strikes as a constitutional breach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NP Editor: <\/strong>The more this happens, the stronger Trump gets. Democrat have attempted to impeach him 10 times now, two of those having passed, none passing the Senate. It seems to me that the more the Democrats cry ‘wolf’ the more the American people will see that this is a attention-getting tactic and not the serious action it is supposed to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Lone Bid to Impeach Trump Falls in the House On June 24, 2025, the House of Representatives voted 344 to 79 to block a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump, introduced by Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas. The overwhelming vote, which included 128 Democrats joining all 216 Republicans, signaled how little appetite there is\u2014even among Democrats\u2014for launching another impeachment process against the former president. Green\u2019s resolution accused Trump of abuse of power for ordering a series of military […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democrats","category-politics","category-trump"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/trumpimprcadsf.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6227,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions\/6227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}