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A top House Republican is arguing that Democrats would upend work in Washington by impeaching President Donald Trump immediately if they win the majority in November.
“Democrats aren’t even being shy about it. They’re telling you what they would do. I mean, they’ll impeach the president day one,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox News Digital.
House Democrats successfully impeached Trump twice the last time they held the House majority, though both efforts failed to get him convicted by the Senate.
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President Donald Trump boards Air Force One on Aug. 9, 2026, at Morristown Airport in Morristown, New Jersey. (Eric Lee/Getty Images)
Their party leaders have not openly called for impeaching Trump again if they win in November, but progressive lawmakers have already introduced a flurry of impeachment resolutions targeting both the president and his Cabinet.
And while the Democratic establishment has not endorsed any impeachment efforts — and even went so far as to join Republicans in killing one on the House floor in June 2025 — Scalise and other Republicans are warning that it’s the far left that will soon have the reins of the party.
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange before morning trading on April 15, 2026. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)
It comes after a wave of socialist insurgents toppled Democratic incumbents and establishment-backed candidates in primaries across the country.
Republicans have seized on the turmoil, arguing their candidates and vulnerable incumbents are much closer to where Americans currently are than those leading the leftward shift on the other side.
“These are tough members. And these are members who have been working with President Trump to make life more affordable for families all across America, running against socialists,” Scalise said. “Socialists who wanna raise taxes, open the border back up again, bring criminals back in.”
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Citing part of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) policy platform, he said, “Defunding prisons? Where are those prisoners gonna go? You know, are they going to take them in their house? This is insane.”
Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., speaks at a Trump impeachment event. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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“And we’ve got seats, by the way, we have a real chance to flip. You know, go look at [Gov. Paul] LePage in Maine, poised to flip a Democrat seat over to Republican,” Scalise said. “We’ve got seats in Texas and Ohio and Florida — so many other places where we have an opportunity to flip seats from Democrat to Republican because people are rejecting this crazy extreme socialism on the left.”
Fox News Digital reached out to House Democrats’ campaign arm for a response to Scalise’s impeachment comments.
