Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., demanded her caucus proceed straight to impeaching President Trump on Sunday, questioning the efficacy of some of her colleagues insisting they conduct investigations first.
“If the Democrats cannot decide that they’re going to move with impeachment, I guess they’re going to go on with these investigations. How long are they going to go on with them? What more do they need to prove?” the House Financial Services chairwoman said during an interview on MSNBC’s “AM Joy.”
Waters’ call to action received a boost last week after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report when Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts publicly supported Rashida Tlaib of Michigan’s impeachment resolution, which she introduced in March. Other advocates, including Reps. Al Green of Texas and Brad Sherman of California, who introduced a similar impeachment measure in January, added their voices to the chorus clamoring for Trump’s removal from office.
House Democratic leadership however, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., have adopted a more measured response. They want to see the full, unredacted Mueller report before holding a series of congressional hearings into the special counsel’s findings.
But Waters argued many Americans don’t have the patience want to wait.
“I can only tell you, I for one have been for impeachment for a long time. I’m going to continue to be for impeachment. I think he should have been impeached a long time ago. And the American people are waiting on us to provide the leadership,” she said.
The Democratic caucus has scheduled a conference call on Monday to discuss their response to the Mueller report.
