Representative Al Green was ejected from the chamber during the US president\u2019s speech, for shouting and refusing to sit down<\/p>\n\n\n\n
US Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas has declared that he\u2019s working on new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The representative was one of the first to formally try to impeach the president during his first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Green said that to the press on Tuesday, right after he was kicked out of the House chamber for heckling Trump during his speech to Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was making it clear to the president that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid,\u201d he explained to reporters when asked what he was shouting before being ejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that his constituents are worried that Trump\u2019s budget cuts will cut into their health care coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m also working on my articles of impeachment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis president is unfit. He should not hold the office. Thirty-four felony convictions, two times impeached,\u201d the congressman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide \u201chush money\u201d payments to a porn star. He was impeached twice by the House of Representatives during his first presidential term, in 2019 and in 2021, but was acquitted both times by the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Green introduced some of the first articles of impeachment against Trump in 2017, before the rest of the Democratic Party pushed for the measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI want him to know that his budget calls for deep cuts in Medicaid,\u201d Green said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, Republicans pushed through spending plans for massive, trillion-dollar budget cuts over the next ten years. Some $880 billion of planned cuts were slated for the Energy and Commerce Committee, the agency that oversees Medicaid, but did not mention downsizing the health coverage program specifically. While the GOP has repeatedly stressed that it’s not planning to slash Medicaid funding, officials have raised concerns about its future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier in February, Trump said that the program would not be affected by his plans to trim the fat from the federal budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Social security, \u201cMedicaid, none of that stuff is going to be touched,\u201d Trump told Fox News in an interview alongside his new government efficiency czar, Elon Musk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n