House Tables Green Impeachment Bid as 18 Democrats Vote With GOP and Leadership Sits Present

The House on Tuesday tabled a privileged resolution to impeach President Donald Trump, voting 232–147 with 47 members voting present and seven not voting. The motion to table, recorded as Roll Call 298, ended Rep. Al Green’s latest attempt to force a floor vote on articles accusing Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors over Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection operations. Eighteen Democrats joined 213 Republicans and one independent in voting yes on the motion. One hundred forty-seven Democrats voted no. Forty-six Democrats and one Republican voted present.

Green, a Houston Democrat who lost his May primary and will leave Congress in January, filed H.Res. 1486 on Aug. 24 and notified colleagues this week that he would call it up under House Rule IX, which requires action within two legislative days. The resolution alleged that Trump had abused presidential power by treating ICE and CBP as “quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary police forces” and cited the deaths this year of Renée Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. Green had written Trump that the president was “condoning, supporting, and covering up these unjustified killings.” Newsweek counted the floor fight as Green’s eighth attempt to bring impeachment to a vote and one of about nine Trump impeachment efforts since 2017; Green has led most of them. A prior Green resolution was tabled in June 2025 with a large bloc of Democrats joining Republicans.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Whip Katherine Clark, and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar voted present, as they had announced Monday. In a joint statement they called impeachment a “sacred constitutional vehicle” that “traditionally requires a comprehensive investigative process, the collection and review of thousands of documents, an exacting scrutiny of the facts, the examination of dozens of key witnesses, [and] Congressional hearings.” They said “none of that serious work has been done” and that they would “again vote ‘present’ on the motion to table the impeachment resolution as we continue our fight to make life more affordable for everyday Americans, while committing to holding the crooks accountable using every tool available to us beginning on day one.” Democrats who voted with Republicans to table 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.

Green objected before the vote. “They will acknowledge that what the president is doing is impeachable, but they would have us wait,” he said. “Well, the Constitution doesn’t have a wait clause in it. I believe that there are some Republicans and Democrats who are considering voting to protect the president. If they’re not considering protecting him, that will be the effect of what they will do when they vote to either table or they vote to send this to a committee for further investigation.” Tabling disposed of the privileged resolution without a direct vote on the articles themselves. No House committee had opened an impeachment inquiry on the deaths named in H.Res. 1486. The vote came two months before the midterms, with Democratic leaders arguing the caucus should stay focused on affordability rather than another floor impeachment that could not pass a Republican House or a Republican Senate.