President Trump Impeachment Letter | Send a house
HouseSpeakerNancyPelosiholdsherweeklynewsconferenceonCapitolHill,June20,2019.(AlDrago/Reuters)TheWhiteHouseplanstosendHouseSpeakerNancyPelosi(D.,Calif.)aletterassoonasFridaydaringhertoholdanimpeachmentvoteandinformingherthatPresidentTrumpwillnotcomplywithanyrequestsfromtheimpeachmentprobeunlessaformalvoteisheld,accordingtoanAxiosreportconfirmedbyFoxNews.PelosiannouncedlastweekthattheHousewouldlaunchaformalimpeachmentinquiry,butsofarhasnotheldavote.HouseDemocrats’handlingoftheprobeprompted[1]...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, June 20, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters)The White House plans to send House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) a letter as soon as Friday daring her to hold an impeachment vote and informing her that President Trump will not comply with any requests from the impeachment probe unless a formal vote is held, according to an Axios report confirmed by Fox News.
Pelosi announced last week that the House would launch a formal impeachment inquiry, but so far has not held a vote. House Democrats’ handling of the probe prompted[1] a letter from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) on Thursday, in which McCarthy challenged Pelosi to come up with “transparent and equitable rules and procedures . . . to govern the inquiry, as is customary,” or else halt the proceedings. McCarthy explicitly mentioned a formal House vote in a series of questions stipulated in the letter.
The lette...