House Democratic leadership issued a joint statement describing Trump as “completely unhinged” and pressed Speaker Mike Johnson to reconvene the House, which is not scheduled to return until April 14. “The House must come back into session immediately and vote to end this reckless war of choice in the Middle East before Donald Trump plunges our country into World War III,” the leaders said, adding that Republicans had for years “enabled and excused” the President’s “deeply dangerous and extreme behavior.”
The demand reflects a rapidly intensifying response among Democrats to Trump’s rhetoric and military actions, which on Tuesday expanded to include more than 90 U.S. strikes on Iran’s main oil export hub at Kharg Island. Trump added urgency to his threat by warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran failed to meet his 8 p.m. deadline to reach a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz. He has suggested that U.S. forces could wipe out all bridges and power plants in Iran in a matter of hours.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren accused Republicans of failing to check the President. “Trump is threatening war crimes to annihilate ‘a whole civilization,’” she said. “Enough. Bring Congress back into session. Republicans must grow a spine and stop this catastrophe.”
At the center of Democrats’ strategy is a renewed push for a war powers resolution that would require congressional authorization for continued U.S. military action against Iran. Such efforts have repeatedly failed in the Republican-controlled House and Senate, where party leaders have largely aligned with Trump’s foreign policy. But his latest remarks appear to be testing that unity.
Some Democrats see an opening if they are able to bring forward another war powers resolution. Given Republicans’ slim margin in both chambers, even a modest number of defections could tip a war powers vote, particularly if public concern grows as casualties mount and economic fallout intensifies.
Impeachment talk re-emerges
Rep. Ilhan Omar wrote on Tuesday that the President should be “impeached” and “removed,” while others, including Rep. Yassamin Ansari, called for invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice president and Cabinet to declare a president unfit for office.
Still, both pathways face steep political and procedural hurdles. Vice President J.D. Vance and a majority of Trump’s cabinet are highly unlikely to declare him “unable to discharge the powers and duties” of the presidency. And without control of either chamber of Congress, Democrats lack the votes to initiate or sustain impeachment proceedings, much less secure the two-thirds Senate majority required for conviction.
In his first term, Trump was impeached twice by the House—first in 2019 over his dealings with Ukraine, and again in 2021 for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol—but acquitted both times by the Senate.
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