Rep. Al Green of Texas has spent nearly a decade as the House's most persistent voice for impeaching President Donald Trump. Now, weeks before he leaves Congress, Green says the push will not leave with him: at least 10 incoming progressive Democrats are expected to carry his impeachment effort into the new Congress, he and the groups backing him said at a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday. "Impeachment is the only means for our future. We cannot deal with a president who engages in corruption," Green said. "The end is to have the president removed from office. I applaud the courageous members carrying these efforts into the next congress."
Green is counting on Reps.-elect Melat Kiros of Colorado, Nancy Lacore of South Carolina, Dan Koh of Massachusetts, Chris Rabb of Pennsylvania and Angela Gonzales-Torres of California, among several other incoming Democrats, to continue the effort after he goes. Gonzales-Torres, who campaigned on impeachment, confirmed her own intention on the record, saying she means to carry Green's work forward for the more than 100,000 Los Angeles voters she says elected her. The "at least 10" figure is the coalition's count of incoming members it expects to back the push — the five above are the ones named publicly so far, and the others have not each confirmed it themselves.
Green, 79, is leaving because Texas redrew his district and he lost the Democratic primary runoff in the 18th district to Christian Menefee. He first filed articles of impeachment against Trump in 2017, filed them repeatedly across both of Trump's terms — including his latest, H.Res. 1486, in August, on which he forced a House vote in September — and was censured by the House in March 2025 after repeatedly interrupting Trump's address to a joint session of Congress. None of his resolutions has ever succeeded, which is exactly why he is now handing the cause to the incoming class.
The charge Green leads with is money. He pointed to Trump's cryptocurrency dealings as his example of what he calls corruption by the president — his characterisation, offered as the case for why impeachment, rather than hearings alone, is the answer. Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth did not respond to requests for comment on the coalition's plans. The president's position across Green's earlier efforts has been that the impeachment pushes are partisan attacks, and the House has voted down or tabled every one of them.
Standing with Green were the two activist groups organising the handover — the Removal Coalition and the Courage for Democracy Project — and their plan goes further than a single resolution: organisers say they want impeachment votes forced from the first day of the new Congress, and they also intend to pursue impeachment proceedings against Hegseth, arguing that wrongdoing by the war secretary could implicate the president. A finding against Hegseth would not by itself establish any legal or constitutional liability for Trump. "The more we articulate this effort and talk about why it is so crucial that we get rid of Trump, the more support we will have," said Keira Havens, co-founder of the Courage for Democracy Project. Removal Coalition founder Jessica Denson dismissed Democrats who prefer hearings and prosecutions of administration officials over impeaching the president himself, calling them "spineless" and saying hearings and prosecutions "aren't enough."
The arithmetic, though, is the same wall Green has run into for years. Democrats take control of the House in January, and impeachment needs only a simple majority there — but removing a president takes two-thirds of the Senate, and the Senate has already declined to convict Trump in both of his previous impeachment trials. The coalition itself concedes there is no guarantee: even its own organisers acknowledge some Democrats who oppose Trump may still vote no, believing the allegations lack sufficient legal grounds or that a Senate conviction would fail.
For ordinary Americans, what is being set up is a fight over what the new Congress spends its first months on. Many of the same incoming members campaigned on lowering the cost of living, and every week the House spends on impeachment is a week not spent on the prices, rents and wages voters say they care about most. Supporters of the push answer that accountability for a president they call corrupt cannot wait. But on the coalition's own account, the Senate math is stacked against removal — so what households are most likely to get from Green's handover is months of impeachment warfare in Washington, with the president still in office at the end of it, while the affordability agenda waits its turn.
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