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Which members of Congress officially demanded Trump's resignation and what were their reasons?
Executive summary
Coverage in the supplied documents shows multiple members of Congress publicly demanding resignations in 2025—primarily of Trump administration officials rather than President Trump himself—and at least one organized push calling on Congress to demand Trump’s resignation and move to impeachment (action petition)[1]. Specific House Democrats named here who publicly demanded resignations include Pramila Jayapal and other Washington members calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s resignation over a Signal leak [2], and Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Linda Sánchez, Gerry Connolly, and Don Beyer asking a Trump trade official to step down from dual roles [3]; an organizational petition also urged that “Congress must demand Trump’s resignation” and bring impeachment to the floor [1].
1. Who in Congress explicitly demanded resignations — and of whom?
The search results in this packet show congressional demands for resignations aimed mostly at Trump administration appointees: Washington Democrats including Pramila Jayapal and Rep. Adam Smith publicly demanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s resignation following the release of Signal messages about airstrike planning [2]. Separately, Representatives Ayanna Pressley, Linda Sánchez, Gerry Connolly and Don Beyer jointly called on a Trump trade official to resign for holding multiple positions, urging immediate resignation to preserve independence of both offices [3]. The materials supplied do not contain a comprehensive list of members of Congress who demanded President Trump himself resign; instead, there is an activist petition urging Congress broadly to demand Trump’s resignation and to pursue impeachment [1]. The congressional resolution to impeach President Trump (H.Res.353) is present in the record but is not in these extracts framed as an individual lawmaker’s public demand for resignation [4].
2. What reasons were given for those resignation demands?
Washington Democrats called for Hegseth’s resignation on grounds of “incompetence” and putting service members at risk after private Signal messages about Yemen airstrikes were leaked; Pramila Jayapal characterized the issue as “a level of incompetence that should not be tolerated” and criticized the administration’s widespread incompetence reaching “all the way to the top” [2]. The group of House members led by Pressley argued that the trade official’s dual roles violated ethical and professional standards and threatened the independence and effectiveness of the offices, saying immediate resignation was required to preserve those standards [3]. The action petition demanding Trump’s resignation framed the reasons as “brazen abuses of power, ongoing corruption, and…attempts to strong arm a foreign country to investigate an opponent,” calling for Congress to demand resignation and bring impeachment to the floor [1].
3. Did members of Congress demand Trump personally resign — and how strong is the evidence?
The packet includes an activist petition urging that “Congress must demand Trump’s resignation,” but among the official congressional communications provided here, the clearest documented demands are targeted at cabinet or administration officials rather than a one-to-one list of members formally demanding President Trump’s resignation [1]. A separate document in the packet is the House impeachment resolution (H.Res.353), which represents an institutional pathway for removal by impeachment rather than a simple public call for resignation by named members [4]. Available sources do not mention a vetted list, by name, of members who officially and individually demanded President Trump’s resignation in these items; that specific roster is not found in current reporting supplied here.
4. Institutional responses versus individual statements
The materials show two distinct modes of pressure: (a) coordinated public letters or statements by groups of House members calling for particular officials to step down (Pressley et al., Jayapal and other WA Democrats) grounded in cited misconduct or incompetence [2] [3]; and (b) activist-organized petitions urging Congress as a body to demand Trump resign and to expedite impeachment [1]. The impeachment resolution listed on Congress.gov reflects a formal legislative vehicle to remove a president via constitutional process rather than merely a call for resignation [4].
5. Context and limits of the available reporting
These documents focus on episodes in early–mid 2025 involving cabinet-level controversies and institutional impeachment activity [4] [2] [3]. The packet does not provide a comprehensive, time-stamped roster of all members who publicly demanded Trump’s resignation, nor does it include counterstatements from Republicans defending those officials or denying the allegations; those perspectives are therefore not represented here. For a full tally of which individual members of Congress formally demanded President Trump resign, and verbatim reasons from each, additional sourcing beyond the provided documents would be required (not found in current reporting).
6. Bottom line for readers
Documented demands in the supplied materials center on resignations of Trump appointees for alleged incompetence, ethical breaches, or conflicts of interest [2] [3], alongside organized calls for Congress to demand the president resign and to pursue impeachment (p1_s2; institutional impeachment text at p1_s4). If you want a named, exhaustive list of members who personally and officially demanded President Trump’s resignation and the exact quotes behind each demand, that specific list is not present in the materials provided here and would require further reporting.