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06 Mar 2025, 01:31 GMT+10
Representative Al Green was ejected from the US president's speech to Congress for shouting and refusing to sit down
Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas, one of the first to formally call for the impeachment of US President Donald Trump during his first term, has said he wants to give it another shot.
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.
"I was making it clear to the president that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid," he explained to reporters when asked what he was shouting before being ejected.
He added that his constituents are worried that Trump's budget cuts will cut into their health care coverage.
"I'm also working on my articles of impeachment," he added.
"This president is unfit. He should not hold the office. Thirty-four felony convictions, two times impeached," the congressman said.
Last year, Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide "hush money" 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.
Green introduced some of the first articles of impeachment against Trump in 2017, before the rest of the Democratic Party pushed for the measure.
"I want him to know that his budget calls for deep cuts in Medicaid," Green said on Tuesday.
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.
Earlier in February, Trump said that the program would not be affected by his plans to trim the fat from the federal budget.
Social security, "Medicaid, none of that stuff is going to be touched," Trump told Fox News in an interview alongside his new government efficiency czar, Elon Musk.
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