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DID CONGRESS ASK TRUMP TO RESIGN
Executive summary
Available reporting in the provided search results shows multiple instances where members of Congress, state officials, and civic groups publicly urged President Trump or Trump administration officials to resign — but there is no single, definitive record in these sources that "Congress asked Trump to resign" as a coordinated, formal congressional demand (available sources do not mention a single congressional resolution or unanimous House/ Senate vote demanding his immediate resignation) [1] [2]. Individual members and coalitions urged resignation or removal, and some lawmakers demanded resignations of Trump appointees; separate reporting also documents judges and federal employees resigning in protest or under administration programs [3] [4] [5].
1. Congressional voices did call for resignation — but as individuals and groups, not a unified Congress
Multiple materials collected by members of Congress and advocacy groups show lawmakers publicly calling for Trump to resign or be removed: a background packet compiled by Rep. Henry Cuellar cites editorials and governors saying “President Trump should resign” or be removed via the 25th Amendment, and an activism petition explicitly urges “Congress Must Act: Demand Trump’s immediate resignation” and bring impeachment to the floor [1] [2]. Those items reflect individual members’ statements, editorial boards, and petitions — not a single, chamber-wide, procedural demand recorded in these excerpts [1] [2].
2. Some House members demanded resignations of administration officials — concrete letters and public pushes
Congressional Democrats have directly demanded resignations from Trump appointees. For example, Representatives Ayanna Pressley, Nanette Díaz Barragán (Sánchez appears in summary), Gerry Connolly and Don Beyer publicly urged a Trump trade official to “immediately resign as Acting Special Counsel and Acting Director,” a formal congressional-style demand in a published House press release [3]. That demonstrates Congress exercising oversight and insistence on exits for specific officials, which is different from a wholesale call for the president himself to step down [3].
3. Editorials and outside petitions amplified calls for resignation — civic pressure, not legislative action
Advocacy pages and newspaper editorials circulated demands that Trump resign. An online petition urged Congress to demand Trump’s resignation and to move forward with impeachment [2]. The Cuellar office document aggregates editorial calls for resignation (e.g., Albany Times-Union, San Francisco Chronicle) and quotes governors urging resignation or removal [1]. These reflect external pressure and media opinion being collected by members of Congress; they are evidence of political momentum in some quarters but not proof of a formal, unanimous congressional directive [2] [1].
4. Resignations and “resignation offers” within the administration complicate the narrative
Separate from calls that Trump resign, there is extensive reporting about mass departures from federal agencies under Trump-era policies: a so-called “deferred resignation” program led to large numbers of federal employees opting to leave (roughly 154,000 overall by one account, with about 100,000 leaving in September and the rest by year-end), and outlets report agency-specific impacts such as more than 2,500 EPA staff participating — nearly a fifth of that workforce — as part of the program [5] [6] [7] [8]. Those are departures initiated by administration policy and offers to employees, not Congress telling the president to resign, though lawmakers and unions litigated and protested the program [9] [5].
5. High-profile resignations framed as protest against the president
A Reagan-appointed federal judge published an Atlantic essay explaining his resignation to speak out against what he called an “assault on the rule of law” by President Trump; that op-ed and subsequent coverage emphasize personal protest as a motive, not any congressional directive ordering the president to step down [4] [10]. This is evidence of elite dissent, not of Congress formally asking the president to resign as a body [4] [10].
6. What the provided sources do not show — limits and unanswered questions
The collection does not include a citation to a formal, chamber-wide congressional demand (for example, a House resolution instructing the president to resign or a unanimous congressional letter to the president demanding resignation) (available sources do not mention such a formal congressional action). The sources also do not document the entirety of any floor votes, nor do they include complete timelines of all congressional statements, so broader congressional actions (beyond individual members’ letters, press releases, and editorial aggregation) could exist outside these excerpts (available sources do not mention additional congressional steps).
Final takeaway: the supplied reporting documents significant calls for resignation from individual members of Congress, governors, editorial boards, advocacy groups, and protests through resignations by judges and federal staff — but the sources provided do not show a single, unified Congressional body formally asking President Trump to resign [2] [1] [3] [5] [4]. If you want, I can search for specific House or Senate resolutions or floor actions to see whether a formal congressional demand occurred beyond these individual statements.