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Congress Moves To Impeach Trump

By Deirdre Walsh | NPR
Published Jan 13, 2021 7:10 AM
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland, walks past members of the National Guard as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol today ahead of an expected House vote impeaching President Donald Trump. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
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The House of Representatives is on track to impeach President Trump for the second time in 13 months — which would make him as the only president to receive the rebuke twice.

This time, though, impeachment could be bipartisan. Republicans all opposed the House vote in December 2019, arguing that it was politically driven. But now some GOP lawmakers are joining Democrats in pointing the finger at the president for using rhetoric that helped spark a violent insurrection at the Capitol last Wednesday that left at least five dead.

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