Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) introduced a resolution on March 5 to censure Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) for interrupting President Donald Trump’s address before a joint session of Congress.
At the beginning of the March 4 speech, Green stood up with his cane and heckled the president. After not heeding warnings by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Green was escorted out of the House chamber.
A Democrat motion to table the resolution was defeated, 209–211 with one member voting “present.”
The Epoch Times has reached out to Green’s office for comment.
Green told reporters after being ejected from the chamber that he rebutted the president’s saying he has a “mandate.”
“I was making it clear to the president that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid,” he said. “I have people who are very fearful. These are poor people and they have only Medicaid in their lives when it comes to their health care.”
One of the criticisms of the House GOP’s proposal to unlock the reconciliation process to pass Trump’s agenda on the border, taxes, and energy is that it calls for $880 billion in cuts to the deficit over a decade by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Democrats and some Republicans have expressed fear that a portion of these cuts would come from Medicaid. Reconciliation allows for bills related to taxation, spending, and the national debt to pass without facing the 60-vote filibuster threshold that most legislation in the Senate must clear.
Trump and Johnson have said Medicaid will not be touched. Johnson said the legislation will target only waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid.
Green said last month that he will introduce articles of impeachment against Trump for his plan for the United States to take over Gaza.
“I rise to announce that the movement to impeach the president has begun,” he said. “I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done.”
Trump proposed in early February for Gazans to be relocated to a safer place and for the United States to take over the war-torn area to rebuild it, with terrorist group Hamas no longer in charge. He has called on neighboring countries, such as Jordan and Egypt, to take in Gazans. Those countries have refused.
