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Sep 27, 2026· Updated

Eight Weeks Out, House Democrats Say Out Loud What a Majority Would Do — Raskin Says a Third Trump Impeachment Is "Not a Taboo With Us" but "Not a Panacea," and Jason Crow Says He Would Start With the Pentagon

On Sunday, September 6, 2026, with the midterms eight weeks away, the House Democrats who would run the investigative committees in a new majority described their plans on the record for the first time. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee and the lead impeachment manager in both of Trump's prior Senate trials, told NBC's "Meet the Press" that the president has "undoubtedly" committed impeachable offenses in his second term and that a third impeachment would be "a critical tool in the toolbox for constitutional self-defense" — while insisting "it's not a fetish with us" and that health care and "ending the lawlessness" rank higher. Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), who sits on Armed Services and Intelligence, told Fox News he would "start on the Department of Defense" because "our service members are being put at tremendous risk," and would not rule out impeachment of Trump or his appointees, calling it "one of several tools." Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the ranking member on Oversight, named his first two targets: "Trump family corruption" and "the Jeffrey Epstein investigation." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has repeatedly declined to be pinned down on impeachment. The remarks give Republicans a concrete campaign argument and mark the clearest public accounting yet of what Democratic oversight would look like in 2027.

“Don't be impeaching anybody. Let's just get back to work. … I would rather move the ball forward and to the benefit of the American people.”
Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) · Sep 27, 2026

Ten Weeks Before the Midterms, House Democratic Leaders Hand the Middle East Subcommittee to One of the Chamber’s Most Pro-Israel Members — and Rashida Tlaib Says They Are "Ignoring the Base of Our Party"

On Tuesday, August 25, 2026, House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-NY) announced that Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) would become the top Democrat on the committee's Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, with Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) succeeding Moskowitz as ranking member on the Oversight and Intelligence Subcommittee. Meeks also welcomed three new Democrats to the full committee: Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Wesley Bell (D-MO). The MENA assignment is the one that lit the fuse. Moskowitz is among the most consistently pro-Israel Democrats in the House; Wasserman Schultz has taken roughly $1.5 million from pro-Israel PACs over her career, and Bell won his seat by beating a Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate. The slate landed two days after The New York Times reported that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who signed off on the assignments alongside Meeks, had met privately with Jared Kushner. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the only Palestinian American in Congress, said leadership was elevating "a genocide denier" and ignoring a party base that wants U.S. funding for the war in Gaza to end. Georgia state Rep. Ruwa Romman, a Palestinian American Democrat running for governor, tied the pick directly to the Kushner meeting. The committee Moskowitz will help steer also seats members moving the other way: Pocan recently backed a failed amendment to cut $3.3 billion in U.S. military assistance to Israel, and Jackson has sponsored legislation restricting arms transfers. The fight is a proxy for the larger question facing House Democrats before November — whether a caucus whose voters have moved sharply on Israel will move with them.

“A supermajority of Democratic voters have made it clear they want to end U.S. support for Israel's genocide in Gaza and Trump's assault on Iran. By elevating a genocide denier who has said he is 'to the right' of JD Vance on the war on Iran, Democratic leadership is once again ignoring the base of our party who want the funding of the genocide to end.”
Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) · Aug 27, 2026

Ten Weeks Before the Midterms, Hakeem Jeffries Met Privately With Jared Kushner — and Told the Left That "No One From the Trump Cartel Is Getting a Pass"

The New York Times reported on Sunday, August 23, 2026 that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had met privately with Jared Kushner in New York, in space lent by a mutual acquaintance, to look for common ground with the White House on housing, immigration and the cost of living. Kushner requested the meeting and suggested Jeffries follow up with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. The reaction inside the Democratic Party was immediate and split. Members and aides questioned why the man who would be Speaker if Democrats take the House in November was sitting down with a presidential son-in-law who holds no formal position in the administration and whom House Democrats have said they intend to investigate. Jeffries answered in a video posted Monday evening and in a written statement to TIME, insisting the affordability crisis "is not a hoax" and that "no one is going to get a pass." Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) waved the meeting off on Fox News, saying Kushner is "not really directly involved" in the administration day to day. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said on Meet the Press he had no objection to the meeting itself but wanted to see something come of it. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, asked at a Monday press conference whether the meeting changed his view, kept his backing for Jeffries — and drew criticism from progressives for it. The episode is the latest flashpoint between Jeffries and his party's left flank ahead of a November election that could hand him the Speaker's gavel and, with it, the decision on whether to impeach Trump.

“In every conversation that we have with the Trump administration, we will continue to make it explicitly clear that the affordability crisis is not a hoax and nothing short of transformational policy change is acceptable.”
Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) · Aug 24, 2026