The Democrat of the Chamber withdraws the bill on the dismissal of Trump which has made anger the leaders of the party
A few minutes before the room was planned for the ground votes, the Democratic representative Shri Thanedar announced that he would not force a vote to dismiss President Donald Trump as he had planned.
Thanedar’s efforts had made it angry not only the Republicans, but also Democratic leaders, who said they would work with the Republicans to kill his bill.
Thanedar said he was retaining his bill, saying that he wanted to add to his dismissal articles to include Trump’s plans to accept a Qatar Boeing 747 as a gift.
“During the fifteen days since I filed seven indictments against President Trump, he committed more impassive offenses … After talking with many colleagues, I decided not to force a vote on the indictment today,” wrote Thanedar representative on X.
In this April 10, 2025, file photo, the representative Shri Thanedar arrives for the vote on the budgetary resolution of the American Capitol in Washington, DC
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The leaders of the GOP of the Chamber planned to introduce a motion to include the legislation and kill it before the announcement of Thanedar, and the president of the Caucus Democrat of the Chamber, Pete Aguilar, said that the leaders of his party would join them.
“We focus on the health care that is eliminated from the American people. It is the most urgent and disastrous thing we could talk about this week. Everything else is a distraction,” Aguilar said at his weekly press conference.
Taking a blow to Thanedar, Aguilar added that even if his conference has his differences, “this is the one that is a fairly easy call”.
The president of the room, Mike Johnson, described the effort “another embarrassing political blow”.
“While the Democrats are launching adjustments, hinders the police, play political games and demonstrate how much they are out of contact – the Republicans work to make lower taxes for families, to restore the domination of American energy, to strengthen border security, to restore peace by force and to make the government work more efficiently and effectively. Johnson in a statement.
During a rally last month celebrating his first 100 days, Trump, who was dismissed twice during his first mandate, said: “It left”. He said that the fact that the Democrats had “no control” on “a stupid guy like this” shows “that they no longer trust as a party”.
Thanedar introduced seven dismissal articles against Trump last month, arguing that the president abuses the power of his office for his own interest and has repeatedly challenged the Constitution, among other charges.
Without the support of the best Democrats in the House or by majority of his caucus, Thanedar’s efforts did not go anywhere until the sooner this week, when he presented his accusation of indictment as “privileged”, forcing the Chamber to consider the legislation within two legislative days.
Thanedar promised to fight.
“Will I succeed this week? Maybe, but we will continue to do so until we have a victory,” he said at his press conference. “We will continue to fight until we have a victory, until we withdraw this president from his unconstitutional, illegal and unfair functions. We will continue.”
“”[House Democratic leaders] You want to focus on other questions, which is good. I just tell them that, he, we can do it, and we can also do it. “”
However, his decision would force the Democrats to assert the file on this issue. Thanedar rejected the concerns that his efforts could harm the vulnerable democratic colleagues, arguing that the Republicans should also vote on it.
“We take difficult votes every day, every day, there is a difficult vote to take. It’s my job … They just need not to examine what plays well in politically, not what the polls say. We have to do the right thing,” said Thanedar.
Thanedar, who was elected to the headquarters of the time in 2022, faces a difficult re -election battle. His compatriot Michigan Democrat, Rashida Tlaib, an eminent progressive, approved the main challenger of Thanedar, the state representative Donavan McKinney, earlier this week.
“I’m finished with absent members who do not recall their residents,” said Tlaib in an article on X, referring to Thanedar.
-Abc News’ Lauren Peller and John Parkinson contributed to this report.
