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House Tables Al Green’s Latest Trump Impeachment Resolution as Democrats Split Before Midterms
The House voted 232-147 to shelve a privileged impeachment resolution focused on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign. Eighteen Democrats joined nearly all Republicans in voting to table the measure, while Democratic leaders and dozens of colleagues voted present, arguing that impeachment should follow a fuller investigative process.
The House of Representatives has rejected another attempt to advance articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, with Republicans and a divided Democratic caucus voting Tuesday to stop the resolution from moving forward only weeks before the November midterm elections.
The chamber voted 232-147 to table H.Res. 1486, a privileged resolution introduced by Rep. Al Green of Texas. Forty-seven members voted present and seven did not vote. The result ended Green’s latest impeachment push for the time being without requiring the House to cast a direct up-or-down vote on whether the president should be impeached.
The distinction matters. A motion to table is a procedural vote that sets aside the underlying resolution. Members who supported tabling Green’s measure were voting to prevent it from proceeding, not necessarily endorsing or rejecting every allegation contained in the impeachment article on its merits.
According to the official House Clerk tally, 213 Republicans, 18 Democrats and one independent voted to table the resolution. No Republican voted against tabling it. One Republican voted present and four Republicans did not vote. Among Democrats, 147 voted against the motion to table, 46 voted present and three did not vote.
The Democratic members who joined Republicans in voting to table the resolution included Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, Jared Moskowitz of Florida, Kathy Castor of Florida and Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri. The group reflected the continuing divide inside the party over whether impeachment should be pursued immediately or only after a more formal investigative process.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar were among the 46 Democrats who voted present. Their choice was deliberate. In a joint statement released before the vote, the three leaders said impeachment is an extraordinary constitutional mechanism that ordinarily follows extensive investigation, document review, witness testimony, hearings and an effort to build a broader factual record.
“None of that serious work has been done,” the leaders said, while also criticizing the Republican majority for what they described as inadequate oversight of the Trump administration.
Their position allowed them to avoid endorsing Green’s resolution while also avoiding a direct vote to table it. Politically, the approach reflected the Democratic leadership’s effort to keep the caucus focused on affordability, health care and oversight themes that leaders have emphasized ahead of the midterms rather than opening a new impeachment fight in the final weeks of the campaign.
Green took a different view. The Texas Democrat argued that the allegations in his resolution were sufficiently serious to require immediate congressional action and that waiting for a future majority or a longer committee process would amount to ignoring conduct he believes has already crossed the constitutional threshold for impeachment.
His resolution focused on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign and alleged that the president had abused his authority by allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to operate without sufficient accountability, violate civil liberties and evade meaningful congressional and judicial oversight.
The resolution cited the deaths of Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero during encounters involving federal immigration agents. Green has argued that the administration’s handling of those incidents, together with broader enforcement practices, demonstrates an abuse of presidential power.
Those assertions are Green’s allegations, not findings adopted by the House or a court. The Trump administration has disputed criticism of the enforcement operations and has defended federal officers in the incidents, in some cases saying agents acted in self-defense or responded to perceived threats. Relatives, witnesses and lawyers connected to some of the people killed have challenged portions of the government’s accounts.
That factual conflict is one reason Democratic leaders said the impeachment process should not leap ahead of investigative work. The leadership position did not amount to a declaration that Green’s concerns were unfounded. Instead, Jeffries, Clark and Aguilar argued that a formal impeachment proceeding requires a developed evidentiary record before the House should be asked to make the constitutional judgment that a president committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
Green rejected the idea that the absence of a committee investigation should stop him from acting. In communications with colleagues, he stated that he believed Trump had committed impeachable offenses and urged members to treat the issue as an immediate question of accountability. That statement represented Green’s own conclusion, not an institutional conclusion of the House.
The resolution was procedurally significant because Green brought it to the floor as a privileged matter. Under House rules, a properly privileged impeachment resolution receives expedited consideration, allowing an individual member to force the chamber to confront the issue even without support from party leaders or the committee system.
That procedure has made Green a recurring figure in Trump impeachment fights. He has repeatedly used privileged resolutions or related floor maneuvers to compel votes when Democratic leaders preferred not to pursue impeachment. Tuesday’s vote marked his eighth impeachment effort overall and his fourth since Trump returned to the White House for a second term, according to reporting on his record.
The political context this time was unusually sensitive. The vote came in the final stretch before the November midterm elections, when control of the House and Senate is at stake and both parties are trying to keep the campaign centered on issues they believe are most favorable to them.
Republicans have argued that Democratic impeachment efforts are evidence that the opposition is focused on removing Trump rather than legislating. Democratic leaders, meanwhile, have been attempting to emphasize the cost of living, health care, economic policy and government accountability while avoiding a process that they believe would be difficult to complete in the current Republican-controlled House.
Aguilar had made that strategic emphasis clear in the days surrounding the vote, saying Democratic leaders were focused on economic concerns and other legislative priorities rather than making impeachment the centerpiece of the party’s pre-election message.
That did not prevent a large majority of voting Democrats from signaling opposition to tabling Green’s resolution. The 147 lawmakers who voted against the motion to table effectively supported allowing the impeachment measure to remain alive. But the combination of Republican votes, 18 Democratic votes to table and the large bloc of present votes ensured the resolution would not advance.
The 47 present votes became one of the most notable features of the roll call. In ordinary political shorthand, members are often described as voting either for or against a proposal. Here, the leadership’s chosen position was intentionally neither. A present vote registers participation but does not count on either side of the motion, which in this case helped the motion to table prevail because the opposition did not have enough votes to defeat it.
The outcome exposed three distinct Democratic camps. One group, led by Green and including 147 members who opposed tabling, was prepared to keep the impeachment effort alive. A second group of 18 Democrats voted with Republicans to dispose of the resolution. A third group, including the top three House Democratic leaders, declined to take a yes-or-no position on tabling and instead emphasized process.
That division is important because Democrats have not ruled out aggressive oversight or even future impeachment proceedings if they win control of the House. Party leaders have publicly promised investigations into the Trump administration if they gain subpoena power and committee control. Their objection to Green’s effort was primarily that the formal work they believe should precede impeachment had not yet occurred.
The leadership statement described impeachment as a constitutional vehicle requiring careful preparation, including the collection and examination of documents, witness interviews, hearings and factual development. That framing leaves open the possibility that a future Democratic-controlled House could investigate some of the same conduct Green highlighted, while making clear that party leaders did not believe the current resolution was the proper vehicle at this time.
Green has consistently been willing to act without leadership support. During Trump’s first term, he pressed for impeachment before the Democratic caucus was ready to embrace the issue. Trump was ultimately impeached twice by the House during that term on different grounds and acquitted by the Senate both times.
The first impeachment, in 2019, centered on Trump’s dealings with Ukraine and allegations that he abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress. The second, in January 2021, charged him with incitement of insurrection after the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Neither Senate trial produced the two-thirds vote required for conviction and removal.
Green’s current resolution was different in subject and structure. Rather than revisiting election conduct, Ukraine, January 6 or other earlier controversies, it focused on immigration enforcement and the constitutional rights of people affected by ICE and CBP operations during Trump’s second term.
The resolution described the immigration agencies in stark terms and accused the administration of creating conditions in which federal officers operated with inadequate accountability. Those characterizations were central to Green’s argument but were not accepted by the House as factual findings because the chamber tabled the measure rather than conducting an impeachment inquiry or adopting articles.
Several of the deaths cited by Green have themselves become the subject of legal, political and factual disputes. In the case of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, federal authorities said he attempted to drive a vehicle at an agent, while occupants of the vehicle and their lawyer disputed that account. In the death of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, DHS said an officer fired after a vehicle attempted to flee, while witnesses and relatives challenged aspects of the federal description.
Alex Pretti’s death also generated intense scrutiny after video and witness accounts raised questions about the sequence of events before agents opened fire. Those disputes underscore the difference between citing controversial incidents in an impeachment resolution and establishing a complete evidentiary record through investigation, testimony and litigation.
The administration has maintained that immigration officers face dangerous situations and must be able to protect themselves while enforcing federal law. Critics, including Green, argue that the scale and tactics of the second-term enforcement campaign have produced unacceptable abuses and insufficient accountability. The impeachment vote did not resolve that broader debate.
Instead, it resolved a narrower procedural question: whether Green’s articles would remain before the House. The answer was no.
The vote also came at a politically significant moment for Green personally. The longtime Houston-area congressman is expected to leave the House in January after losing his Democratic primary following redistricting that changed the political map around his district. His remaining months in office have therefore become the final chapter of a congressional career in which impeachment of Trump has been one of his most persistent causes.
Green has also had a history of direct confrontation with Trump. In 2025, the House censured him after he disrupted a presidential address to Congress. Green has continued to describe that episode as evidence that he is willing to challenge the president even when doing so carries institutional or political consequences.
His latest impeachment effort fits that pattern. It was brought without the approval of Democratic leadership, relied on the privileged-resolution procedure to force action and required members to record where they stood even though the outcome was never likely to produce Trump’s removal from office in a Republican-controlled Congress.
For Republicans, the motion to table offered a straightforward way to end the effort quickly. For centrist and politically vulnerable Democrats, voting to table allowed them to reject a new impeachment fight before the midterms. For Democratic leaders, voting present created distance both from Green’s immediate tactic and from a Republican motion to dispose of the allegations outright.
The result therefore says more about the House’s current political and procedural posture than it does about the ultimate merits of the accusations in H.Res. 1486. No impeachment inquiry was authorized. No committee developed findings on the allegations. No article of impeachment was adopted. And no Senate trial will follow from this resolution.
The vote does, however, provide a measurable picture of Democratic attitudes only weeks before voters determine control of the chamber. A substantial majority of Democrats who cast yes-or-no votes opposed tabling Green’s measure, while the party’s leadership and dozens of others refused to endorse the process he chose. Eighteen Democrats went further and voted to end it outright.
That split could become relevant if Democrats win the House in November. A new majority would control committees, subpoenas and the floor agenda, creating a very different institutional environment for investigations of the Trump administration. Whether that would lead to impeachment would depend on the evidence developed, the issues chosen by committee leaders and the political judgment of the caucus at that time.
For now, Democratic leaders are emphasizing that any such decision should come after investigation rather than before it. Green, by contrast, has argued that the conduct he identifies is already sufficiently grave to demand action.
Both positions were visible in Tuesday’s roll call. Green succeeded in forcing the House to confront the issue, but he did not persuade enough members to keep his resolution alive. Republican unity, support from 18 Democrats and the decision of Democratic leaders to vote present produced a decisive procedural defeat.
The final tally — 232 to table, 147 against and 47 present — closed the latest chapter in Green’s long-running campaign to impeach Trump. It did not settle the underlying disputes over immigration enforcement, civil liberties or presidential accountability, and it did not prevent future impeachment efforts from emerging if the political balance in the House changes.
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What it did establish is the position of the current House: less than two months before the midterm elections, a majority of members was not prepared to let Al Green’s latest impeachment resolution proceed.
