Democratic Rep. Al Green removed from House chamber after disrupting Trump's address to Congress

Democratic Rep. Al Green was removed from the House enclosure during President Trump’s code to Congress connected Tuesday night.

House Speaker Mike Johnson instructed the House Sergeant astatine Arms to eject Green aft helium stood up and interjected arsenic Trump spoke to lawmakers.

Green stood and shouted, “You person nary mandate!” Republicans, sitting connected the different broadside of the room, drowned Green’s protests out, chanting “USA! USA!”

Johnson asked the country to beryllium down and enactment quiet, but Green refused. Johnson past instructed the Sergeant astatine Arms to region Green from the country for interrupting the code and, arsenic Green exited, Republicans stood up again and cheered, shouting, “Get out!”

“You person nary mandate to chopped Medicaid!” Green shouted astatine Trump earlier helium was escorted retired of the chamber.

Green, 77, is simply a typical from Texas’s Ninth Congressional District and has served successful Congress since 2005. He has helped pb impeachment efforts against Trump since 2017 and was one of the archetypal members of Congress to suggest articles of impeachment against Trump during his archetypal administration, specifically successful transportation to Trump’s firing of erstwhile FBI Director James Comey.

In precocious January, Green announced to the House his plans to introduce caller articles of impeachment against Trump implicit the warfare successful Gaza.

"The question to impeach the president has begun. I emergence to denote that I volition bring Articles of Impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds projected and dastardly deeds done," Green said. "Ethnic cleansing successful Gaza is not a joke, particularly erstwhile it emanates from the president of the United States, the astir almighty idiosyncratic successful the world.”

Before Congress, Green was a civilian rights lawyer and the president of the Houston NAACP for astir a decade.