Pelosi’s leadership team rebels on impeachment, presses her to begin an inquiry into Trump
By Rachael Bade and Rachael Bade Congressional reporter Email Bio Follow Mike DeBonis Mike DeBonis Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives Email Bio Follow May 20 at 9:09 PM Members of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s own leadership team confronted her in a contentious Monday night meeting and argued that it was time to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, according to multiple officials in the room.
“It’s a fact-finding process,” said Rep. David Cicilline , one of the members in the meeting who also took to Twitter and TV Monday to make the case for an impeachment inquiry. “There’s no doubt that opening an inquiry strengthens the hand of Congress in forcing compliance with subpoenas whether it’s for documents or individuals.”
“We should be having the conversation about … how this will help us break through the stonewalling of the administration,” said Judiciary panel member Rep. Ted Deutch of an inquiry. Deutch was not in the meeting but agreed with those who made the case to Pelosi Monday night.
Pelosi and Hoyer retorted that the panel shouldn’t cut off other committee investigations, which they said are bearing fruit. Judiciary, after all, is not the only panel investigating Trump. Five others are as well, and an impeachment inquiry might undercut those probes, some think. “Today, we won our first case,” Pelosi said referring to a federal judge’s move to uphold an Oversight panel subpoena despite Trump’s objections. “We’ve been in this thing for almost five months and now we’re getting some results… We still have unexhausted avenues here.”
Lieu pointed out that Democrats don’t have to impeach Trump just because they begin an inquiry. He also argued that Democrats could move to an impeachment inquiry right away and be done with it before 2020, allowing lawmakers to focus on their agenda when they run for reelection.
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