Several Democrats have urged Congress to begin the process to impeach President Donald Trump following the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, and the Democratically-controlled House has begun several investigations into him and his administration.
“The I-word is something that we all have to start talking about and that word is infrastructure, it’s not impeachment,” Rep. Matt Cartwright, the co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, said on CNN’s “New Day,” Friday morning.
Trump briefly attended a scheduled meeting with Democratic leaders on infrastructure on May 22, but left after saying he cannot work with them while these investigations are ongoing.
“He promised infrastructure,” the congressman said. “He talked about how he’s a builder. But when leadership goes over to the White House last week for their second meeting about infrastructure, it lasts three minutes and blows up over the president insisting that no more oversight take place.
“He’s asking for the Congress to not do its constitutional duty to overlook what’s happening at the White House in exchange for an infrastructure package? That’s a non-starter,” Cartwright said.
“The Democrats in the swing districts … talked about infrastructure,” he added. “At long last, repairing our roads and bridges and our rail systems and our water systems and our sewer systems and bringing broadband internet to rural areas.
“We promised those things, and they haven’t been happening,” the congressman continued. “They didn’t happen in the first two years of this administration when everything was in Republican control, and we’re pushing that now.”
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