Rep. Ro Khanna says Democrats could pursue a third Trump impeachment if they win the House, casting it as accountability while Republicans warn it is political score-settling.
California Democrat Ro Khanna told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that another drive to impeach President Trump would be about “setting a standard” if his party retakes Congress in November.
The Hill reported the congressman’s comments as senior Democrats keep the impeachment option open and Republicans predict a fresh round of political warfare.
Khanna did not treat the idea as a mistake. He said Democrats could impeach and still run a first-hundred-day agenda aimed at the cost of living.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has already said senior Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee would oversee party action, including impeachment, if Democrats win the House.
On air with host Kristen Welker, Khanna framed impeachment as a constitutional message, not a narrow fight over one dispute.
Khanna said:
"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 Democrats could do both politics and process at once:
"And 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,"
Those lines put a third Trump impeachment at the center of the midterm pitch before voters have even cast ballots. They also treat contested claims as settled grounds for removal.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) gave the other side of the ledger on ABC’s “This Week.”
Jordan said a third impeachment would not be “legitimate oversight, but to just go after your political opponents.”
He went further:
"But that’s just part of it. They’re going to investigate the first family, they’re going to investigate cabinet secretaries,"
Jordan named possible targets beyond the president, including FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
That warning matches what President Trump has also predicted: if Democrats win the House, impeachment returns as a political weapon.
Readers tracking the wider fight over Trump’s record can also see how public debate keeps circling his results on crime and order, including when Bill Maher refused to deny Trump’s role in the crime drop.
Khanna’s impeachment talk came a day after Trump rejected an Iranian peace proposal on Saturday.
Iran had floated a seven-day offer that, in Khanna’s telling, would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and put a ceasefire in place. Gas prices have soared as Iran’s effective closure of the strait squeezes supply.
Khanna urged the Trump administration to accept the offer and said Washington could do so without agreeing to every Iranian condition.
He also cast the core demand this way:
"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,"
Then he attacked Trump’s UN message:
"That’s what they really care about. And you’ve got Trump going to the UN and saying we’re going to blow them all up after he had said that we already blew up all their nuclear facilities, which obviously we didn’t."
Those UN and nuclear claims are Khanna’s account. Separate coverage of Trump’s address to world leaders has focused on how he targeted Iran’s nuclear program and pressed a broader peace and reform agenda on the world stage.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Welker that negotiators still await “an official response through the mediators.” He also said Iran is “fully prepared” to resume fighting if Trump authorizes strikes after the midterms.
Democrats have not ruled out a third impeachment attempt. Khanna’s Sunday appearance made the strategy plain: win the House, open the inquiries, and sell it as constitutional hygiene while running on kitchen-table costs.
Jeffries has already pointed to Judiciary and Oversight as the committees that would run the accountability push if Democrats regain the majority.
Jordan’s reply was simpler. He said the project is about opponents, the first family, and Cabinet officials, not neutral review.
That clash sits inside a larger media and political pressure campaign around the White House, including fights over access such as when the White House locked CNN out of Air Force One for a Trump trip to Knoxville.
Khanna even called Trump “increasingly irrelevant” in his own view, while spending airtime mapping impeachment grounds and pressing a softer line toward Tehran.
Family-centered political coverage has stayed intense through the same cycle, from Trump’s inner circle shifts after Kai Trump moved closer as a confidante to sharp public comments from Donald Trump Jr. in other high-profile cases.
No articles of impeachment have been filed. The midterms are still ahead. What is already on the record is a Democratic member of Congress arguing that a third impeachment would “set a standard,” a minority leader signaling committee machinery for it, and a leading House Republican saying the real target list runs through the president’s family and Cabinet.
Voters can judge whether that is constitutional duty or a pre-loaded campaign for power. The standard that matters most is the one they set in November.