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Republicans should not show ‘weakness’ and fall into their trap. “The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game.

“I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!” Trump tweeted. The House was set to vote on the impeachment resolution Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.įor his part, Trump has doubled-down on Twitter - and even tripled-down ahead of the vote on the resolution - in insisting his tweets “were NOT racist.” Al Green (D-Texas) introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump, which cites Trump’s racist tweets as reason to remove him from office. “The House resolution condemning these attacks is a step forward, but it’s critical that members of both parties stand together to reject Trump’s dangerous and violent rhetoric,” Ellis said. Be you.”Īlso praising the resolution was GLAAD’s Ellis, although she said more work is necessary to repudiate the racism espoused by Trump. We seek leadership that makes our society safe for everyone to live free. “Every step on that path, like the congressional resolution, is helpful in the struggle. “Our squad goals are to eradicate injustice everywhere it lives, from racism in the White House to anti-LGBTQ discrimination in health care,” Simmons said.

Stacey Long Simmons, director of advocacy and action at the National LGBTQ Task Force, praised the House resolution condemning Trump’s tweets as racist. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) over what the CSPAN cameras in the chamber should be allowed to show.) The last time a speaker of the House was found to be in violation of that rule was in 1984 when then-Speaker Tip O’Neill was challenged by then-Rep. (It’s rare to challenge a House speaker’s rules as out of order. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), presiding over the chamber as chair, abandoned his seat in protest, the House ultimately voted against striking Pelosi’s words from the record. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) tried to undo her remarks from the record, citing rules precluding House members from calling the president of the United States a racist.Īfter some back and forth in which House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) advised the words were in fact out of order and Rep. After Pelosi read the title of the resolution, which called Trump’s comments racist, Rep. The debate on Tuesday to condemn Trump took longer than originally planned. They are shocked and dismayed because it seems we have lost our way as a nation.” And at the highest level of government, there’s no room for racism…The world is watching. “I know racism when I see it,” Lewis said. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who recalled his days as a civil rights pioneer in denouncing the president’s language. Justin Amash, who recently became an independent after announcing he’d leave the Republican Party, also voted “yes” on the measure.Īmong those condemning Trump as a racist on the House floor was Rep. Will Hurd (Texas), Fred Upton (Mich.), Susan Brooks (Ind.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) - joined Democrats in voting in favor of the resolution. The measure passed Tuesday by a margin of 240-187.

Given a sense of unity amid public infighting in which Ocasio-Cortez insinuated Pelosi was targeting women of color in her caucus, House Democrats responded with a non-binding resolution condemning Trump’s tweets as racist. (Of these four, only Omar - who was born in Somalia, but obtained asylum as a youth in the United States - is foreign born.) Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) as well as the two Muslim women in Congress: Reps. The four congresswomen Trump referenced were Cortez, the author of the Green New Deal in the House, Rep. Then come back and show us how it is done.” “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. “So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” Trump tweeted.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) - unleashed a series of racist tweets that inspired nationwide condemnation in the week that followed. On Sunday morning, Trump - in apparent reference to tensions in the House Democratic caucus between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and freshman Rep.