Irate Democrats have moved to impeach President Donald Trump again – just two weeks into his second term.
The move comes after bitter lawmakers got into a shouting match earlier on Wednesday over Elon Musk and demanded he be subpoenaed over his drastic overhaul of the US government.
At a separate hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas said he filed new impeachment articles against Trump over the alleged threat of “ethnic cleansing in Gaza.”
“The movement to impeach the president has begun,” Green said on the US House floor.
“I rise to announce that I will bring Articles of Impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done.”
Green’s move comes after Trump said at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that the US wants to “take over” the Gaza Strip.
The Texas Democrat said he “laid the foundation for impeachment” for Trump before and will be doing it again.
Green was one of the lawmakers who brought on Trump’s first impeachment in 2017.
Just before Green’s announcement on Wednesday, Musk’s work as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency and the axing and defunding of several federal agencies ignited a war between Democrat and Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
During a hearing on government efficiency, the Democrats moved to subpoena Musk to get answers about his work as the head of DOGE.
After Chairman James Comer opened the hearing with a vow to identify fraud and abuse in the federal government, Congressman Gerry Connolly introduced the motion and blasted Musk.
Connolly said Musk and Trump “are using a wrecking ball to systematically dismember our government piece by piece.”
“Who is this unelected billionaire that he can attempt to dismantle federal agencies, fire people, transfer them, offer them early retirement, and have sweeping changes to agencies without any congressional review, oversight, or concurrence?” he added.
Connolly is referencing Musk’s recent buyout scheme offering federal employees pay until September if they quit their jobs before the end of their month in an attempt at downsizing the federal workforce.
The Congressman called Musk as a witness “given his providence and his importance.”
Comer immediately fired back that the motion was “not debatable.”
Chaos quickly erupted as Republicans scrambled to table the motion.
Democrat Representative Melanie Stansbury yelled it was “outrageous” for the motion to not even be entertained.
“Let’s have order in this country!” Stansbury cried.
“Mr. Elon Musk is out of order in dismantling this country.”
After lawmakers shouted back and forth at each other, Republicans blocked the motion that would’ve forced Musk to testify before Congress.
Stansbury later posted on X, “Out of order!? No, Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government is out of order.
“Why is the GOP blocking a subpoena to have him appear in front of the Oversight Committee?”
Musk fired back at Stansbury on X yesterday after she said she planned to call him out for overhauling the government with his DOGE efforts.
“Can I help you?” he posted.
