- The representative Al Green heckled Trump’s joint address on Tuesday evening.
- The Texas Democrat was finally launched on the orders of President Mike Johnson.
- Green later told journalists that it was worth it. “
For the first time of recent memory, a legislator was thrown outside the chamber of the Chamber at the address of a president to a joint session of the congress.
It started a few minutes from President Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday evening, when the president spoke of the “mandate” he had won under his victory during the 2024 elections.
The representative Al Green, a Texas Democrat known for making theatrical gestures, got up and began to heckle Trump, telling him that he had “no mandate” to make Cups in Medicaid.
The Democrats accused Trump and the Republicans of having pushed cuts on the program, which serves low -income Americans, due to a budgetary resolution that adopted the house last week.
Green’s heckling was immediately encountered by cries on the republican side of the aisle, the legislators of the GOP saying to the Democrat of Texas to sit and be silent. But Green persisted, finally the president of the room, Mike Johnson, to direct the sergeant of the Chamber of Arms to escort the member of the Congress of the Chamber.
“It is worth letting people know that there are people who will stand up,” Trump told journalists outside the room. He added that he was not sure that he is not likely an official punishment.
The Texas Democrat announced last month that he would present indictment articles against Trump, despite a lack of support from the recent of his caucus.
He made a similar decision during the president’s first term, even by forcing three different votes on his resolution of dismissal in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Republican legislators such as Marjorie Taylor Greene representatives of Georgia and Lauren Boebert from Colorado have often heckled the addresses of the union of former President Joe Biden, but they have never been withdrawn from the Chamber.
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