House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested Tuesday that Democrats would move to impeach President Trump again if they regain the House majority in the 2026 midterm elections.
“We’re going to win the midterms. Absolutely,” he told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham. “We’re going to have a big victory. And I think we can expand that majority so we can keep going.”
“We have to give President Trump four years and not two,” he told “The Ingraham Angle” host. “Imagine if the Democrats took over the House, they’d impeach him.”
Trump is the first and only president to have been impeached twice, though he was ultimately acquitted by the Senate in both cases.
The first trial centered on a call he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, when he reportedly asked the world leader to probe former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. The second was over his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and his efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 election to Biden.
The president has ramped up his criticism of the “radical left” since returning to the White House in January — accusing Democrats of fueling political violence and sparring with news media over coverage of his administration.
In April, Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) filed seven articles of impeachment against Trump for ignoring “the Constitution, Congress, and the courts.” Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) also filed an article of impeachment against the president in June over the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
The divide between Republicans and Democrats has only deepened in recent weeks as they have been engaged in a battle over government funding. A shutdown began overnight after the Senate failed to pass legislation to keep the lights on.
Both parties pointed the finger at each other when asked who is to blame for the lapse in funding. Democrats have pushed for reversing cuts to Medicaid passed in the “One, Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law by Trump over the summer and for an extension on Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire later this year.
Johnson said the window after the government reopens will be a “very important period of time that will allow the appropriators in both parties to do their job.”
“They got 12 separate appropriations bills done through the committee in the House. The Senate is working through them as well,” he told Fox. “We just need more time to process it through both chambers.”
“So, if we have until Nov. 21, we are very optimistic, Laura, we can get Congress to work again. We can do separate appropriations bills instead of that omnibus monster at the end of the year that everybody hates,” he added.
His comments came after three Democrats in the Senate crossed the line, voting in favor of the GOP-passed stopgap bill. Republican leaders now must convince another five Democrats to do the same.