Rep. Ro Khanna said a third impeachment of President Trump would set an accountability standard if Democrats win the House, rejecting claims that another push would be a mistake.
California Democrat Ro Khanna appeared Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” and made clear that House Democrats should move on a third impeachment of President Donald Trump if they regain the majority in November’s midterms. He framed the step as a defense of constitutional limits rather than a distraction, and he dismissed the notion that pursuing it again would be a political error.
Newsmax reported that Khanna cast the effort as necessary to uphold basic rules on war powers, federal personnel, and foreign dealings. He argued Democrats could run impeachment proceedings and still deliver a first-hundred-day agenda aimed at cost-of-living pressures.
Khanna put the case in plain terms.
Khanna stated:
"Impeachment says that you can’t get into an illegal war in Iran without constitutional approval."
He continued:
"Impeachment says that you can’t just start firing federal employees in defiance of what Congress says. Impeachment says you can’t do deals with foreign governments to allegedly enrich your own family. It’s about setting a standard."
And he added:
"The Democrats can impeach to uphold constitutional values and, at the same time, have a first-hundred-day agenda that deals with the cost of living."
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has indicated that senior Democrats on the Judiciary and Oversight committees would take the lead on holding the administration accountable if the party wins the majority. That structure would put the most aggressive investigators in charge from day one.
The talk fits a longer pattern of Democratic pressure. A lame-duck Democrat recently filed dozens of impeachment articles as the midterm fight intensified, showing how quickly the caucus returns to this tool.
Khanna rejected the suggestion that another impeachment drive would be a mistake. He insisted the party can police constitutional boundaries and still speak to pocketbook issues that voters feel every month.
Yet not every Democrat shares the appetite for immediate confrontation. The Washington Examiner noted that Sen. Tammy Duckworth has warned colleagues against turning a new majority into a clash machine and has urged the party to get back to regular work if it retakes the chamber.
Khanna tied the impeachment standard directly to Iran. He called on the Trump administration to accept Iran’s seven-day proposal aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz and securing a ceasefire. At the same time he said Washington does not need to accept every Iranian condition.
He offered one clear priority of his own.
Khanna said:
"In my view, the biggest thing that we need to give the Iranians is an ironclad commitment that we will not have [a] regime-change war."
He also criticized recent comments by Trump at the United Nations that Khanna characterized as threats of further military action against Iran, and he disputed the president’s claims about the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities. Those foreign-policy disputes became part of the same “standard-setting” argument he applied to domestic power.
National Review has highlighted Khanna’s earlier position that further military action ordered by the president without congressional sanction is a potentially impeachable offense, a view that tracks the war-powers language he used again on Sunday.
Administration moves on spending and personnel often supply the raw material for these fights. Recent steps such as Trump’s decision to cut nearly $1 billion from DEI and noncitizen programs illustrate the kind of executive action Democrats now list as grounds for confrontation.
A national poll of likely 2026 voters conducted for Free Speech For People found 52 percent support impeaching President Trump early in his term, against 40 percent opposed. Support ran 84 percent among Democrats and 55 percent among independents; Republicans opposed it 81 percent to 14 percent. The group called the early majority “extraordinary and unprecedented.”
Breitbart reported that the same survey and advocacy push have kept third-impeachment talk alive among figures including Khanna, with organizers citing Iran policy and other administration actions as listed grounds.
That enthusiasm is not new. In an earlier cycle, the Washington Free Beacon documented Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham pressing for a House impeachment inquiry even while admitting the issue had not come up in more than 100 meetings with North Carolina voters. He still wanted witnesses called and evidence heard, treating the election itself as only one form of accountability.
Midterm control of the House remains the practical trigger. Court and map fights already shape that battlefield, including cases where justices blocked a Trump-backed Missouri House map and separate rulings that cleared Trump DHS to screen voters with federal citizenship records ahead of the elections.
Khanna’s Sunday appearance left little doubt about the sequence he prefers: win the House, empower Judiciary and Oversight, and use impeachment to draw bright lines on war, personnel, and foreign deals, while promising voters a parallel push on living costs.
Democrats once again reach for impeachment as their first governing instinct, proving they prefer process warfare over the hard work of delivering results the country can measure.
