House Dems unveil bill to examine removing Trump using 25th Amendment

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House Dems unveil bill to examine removing Trump using 25th Amendment
The bill would create a 17-member commission to assess whether Trump can discharge presidential duties
 By Louis Casiano Fox News
Published April 14, 2026 2:06pm EDT

House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a long-shot bill in a possible attempt to remove President Trump from office using the 25th Amendment.

The 10-page legislation, introduced by House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., would create a 17-member commission to assess whether the amendment could be used to boot Trump from the White House.

The panel would be composed of several physicians and former high-ranking executive officials appointed by congressional leaders from both parties.

"[T]he Commission shall carry out a medical examination of the President to determine whether the President is mentally or physically unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office," the bill states.

Democratic and Republican leaders of each chamber of Congress would select four physicians and four psychiatrists to serve on the commission. The 16 appointed members would then vote to select an additional member to chair the body.

Many House and Senate Democrats have called for Trump to be removed from office or impeached after he wrote that a "whole civilization will die tonight" in a social media post regarding the war in Iran. Raskin cited Trump's "increasingly volatile, incoherent, and alarming public statements" during the ongoing conflict.

"We have a solemn duty to play our defined role under the 25th Amendment by setting up this body to act alongside the Vice President and the Cabinet," Raskin said in a statement. "Public trust in Donald Trump’s ability to meet the duties of his office has dropped to unprecedented lows as he threatens to destroy entire civilizations, unleashes chaos in the Middle East while violating Congressional war powers, aggressively insults the Pope of the Catholic Church, and sends out artistic renderings online likening himself to Jesus Christ."

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[Smokin Joe]

I seriously wish these partisan pissants would just go perform improbable sexual act with themselves.

[verga]

I almost feel bad for them, almost. This is the only way they can feel relevant.

[catfish1957]

I am getting more pessimistic by the day,  around chances or retaining the House January 2027.

This will be the norm, and it effectively shuts down Trump's agenda. 

[Free Vulcan]

What silly political theater to make themselves look relevant.

They are basing it off one statement taken out of context deliberately to fit their agenda while we had four years Joe Skeezy slobbering, crapping in his pants, and getting lost, while they confidently stated he was in top form.

[DefiantMassRINO]

I don't know if peeps are enthused to vote Dem if their top priority is overturing a fair and free 'democratic' election.

There are 330+ million American citizens and legal immigrants that need a functional Federal Government that addresses the needs of those it's supposed to serve.

[mountaineer]

The relevant part of the 25th Amendment reads:

    Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

    Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department [sic][note 2][7] or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

It doesn't need a new statute laying out additional procedures.