What us senators want to impeach trump in 2026
Executive summary
A small but vocal group of U.S. senators publicly urged or signaled support for removing President Trump following the January 2026 Venezuela operation, led by Senate Democratic leadership and echoed by several prominent Democratic senators including Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Tim Kaine and Amy Klobuchar [1] [2]; other senators — like Chris Murphy — have amplified arguments that Trump’s conduct merits impeachment if political conditions change [3]. Reporting shows these calls sit alongside broader demands from House Democrats and advocacy groups to pursue multiple separate articles of impeachment, but the Senate currently contains no consensus for conviction and the landscape remains fluid [4] [5].
1. Who in the Senate has explicitly demanded impeachment — the leadership and named Democrats
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer publicly demanded immediate removal of Trump and was named among senators calling for his ouster after the Venezuela events, a position also attributed to Senators Elizabeth Warren, Tim Kaine and Amy Klobuchar in contemporaneous reporting of the post‑strike uproar in January 2021 and invoked again in context of 2026 reactions [1]; Axios and Time reporting of the 2026 Venezuela operation capture that senior Senate Democrats joined House leaders in demanding briefings and, for some, consideration of removal [2] [6].
2. Senators urging impeachment beyond leadership — rising voices and legal framing
Senator Chris Murphy has publicly argued that Trump has accrued far more impeachable conduct in his second term and signaled willingness to press for accountability, connecting alleged financial entanglements and gifts to constitutional concerns that could justify impeachment should Democrats regain control and pursue it [3]; independent legal and advocacy groups have also backed new articles of impeachment filed in the House, creating a political and legal push that senators like Murphy have amplified [5].
3. Republican senators: past dissent versus present likelihood to impeach
Some Republican senators have a history of breaking with Trump — for example Bill Cassidy voted to convict in Trump’s second impeachment and has been an occasional critic, a fact noted in coverage of intra‑GOP tensions — but current reporting emphasizes that Senate Republicans have largely resisted moving to remove the president in 2026 and that intra‑party discipline and political calculations make a Senate conviction unlikely unless the partisan arithmetic shifts [7] [8].
4. State‑level and outside voices complicating the record
Statements calling for impeachment have not been limited to U.S. senators; California State Senator Scott Wiener issued an immediate call for impeachment over the Venezuela action, but he is a state legislator and not a U.S. senator — an important distinction that has sometimes been blurred in aggregate coverage of “senators” demanding removal [9]. National groups and a sizable bloc of House members have advanced formal impeachment resolutions (H.Res.353, H.Res.537, H.Res.939) that frame multiple alleged offenses and provide the vehicle for congressional action even as Senate votes remain the ultimate barrier [4] [10] [11].
5. The political reality: calls exist, but conviction requires a different Senate
Even with senior Democrats and several senators publicly calling for impeachment or removal, conviction in the Senate requires a two‑thirds vote and presently faces steep partisan obstacles; reporting notes that Democrats remain in the minority in Congress and that many lawmakers caution impeachment is politically and procedurally difficult unless the 2026 midterms change control of one or both chambers [3] [8] [12]. Coverage consistently frames the present surge of demands as significant politically and symbolically but, insofar as the Senate is concerned, not yet a path to removal without electoral shifts [6] [2].