September 24, 2019

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday formally threw her support behind an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, a dramatic move that puts the House on a trajectory to vote to remove the president from office later this fall.

"Today, I'm announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry," Pelosi said in a statement outside her office on the second floor of the Capitol. "The actions of the Trump presidency revealed dishonorable facts of the president's betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections."

Pelosi's announcement capped months of Democratic infighting over whether to support efforts to oust Trump and represents the biggest gamble of her long career. The battle over impeaching Trump is likely to drag into the 2020 presidential campaign and become the biggest issue in key House districts.

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