In a conference call Monday night, Pelosi’s leadership team said the investigative committees would continue their inquiries.
By Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian April 22 at 6:25 PM House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership team told lawmakers Monday that they had no plans to immediately open impeachment proceedings against President Trump and would focus instead on investigations.
The call came just hours after Pelosi appeared to tap the brakes on impeachment discussions, arguing in a letter to her colleagues that while Democrats would hold Trump accountable for his actions in the Mueller report, they could do so without initiating impeachment hearings. The California Democrat wrote that Congress “will scrupulously assert Congress’s constitutional duty to honor our oath of office to support and defend the Constitution and our democracy” by investigating the president.
Pelosi’s comments come as several of her Democratic chairmen suggested on the Sunday talk shows that impeachment might be an option. But as they briefed lawmakers on the call Monday night, those same chairmen appeared to push that notion to the side, suggesting Democratic leaders have decided now is not the time to start such proceedings.
But Republicans following the Mueller report’s release have largely gone silent, even as Mueller detailed the Trump campaign welcoming Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and Trump’s effort to thwart the investigation.
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