Pelosi calls for Cabinet to invoke 25th Amendment on Trump over Iran remarks [View all]

Source: The Hill

04/07/26 6:08 PM ET


Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday urged members of President Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and hand his powers to the vice president over his remarks about wiping out Iran’s civilization. If the Cabinet is unwilling to take that action, Pelosi said Republicans in the House and Senate should move to end the Iran war.

“Donald Trump’s instability is more clear and dangerous than ever,” Pelosi wrote in a post on social platform X. “If the Cabinet is not willing to invoke the 25th Amendment and restore sanity, Republicans must reconvene the Congress to end this war,” she added.

Pelosi previously said the 25th Amendment should be invoked against Trump during his first term, touting support from other lawmakers. Her recent comments fall in line with other House Democrats who have warned Trump’s plans to bomb infrastructure in Iran and threat to wipe out a “whole civilization” if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened would constitute war crimes against civilians if they were carried out.

The 25th Amendment allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to vote and declare a president “unable to discharge” their powers and duties, and then would give the vice president the active duties of the presidency. If the president objected, it would go to a vote of Congress, which would need a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and Senate to concur.

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