The Democratic Representative Al Green retired from the camera after the outbreak during Trump’s speech
In a dramatic scene, only a few minutes after the joint speech of President Donald Trump to Congress on Tuesday, a Democratic congressman for a long time interrupted the speech in a burst that finally caused him from the Chamber of the Chamber.
Trump had just referred to the elections of November 5, calling his victory as a “mandate”, when the representative to Green, a 11 -period Democrat who represents the Houston area, stood up, said his cane on the stand and shouted: “You don’t have a mandate to cut Medicaid.”
Trump sought to continue his speech, referring to his popular voting vote and then a survey that said that the Americans think that the country is directed in the right direction, but Green continued to interrupt, drawing boos and then the songs of “Use! USA!” of the republican side of the camera.
The representative to Green (D-TX) shouts while the president of the United States, Donald Trump, speaks during a speech to a joint session of Congress in the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025.
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Finally, the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, jumped, hitting the deck: “The members are aimed at defending and maintaining the decorum in the house, and so that more interruptions cease. That is their warning.”
When Green’s protest continued, Johnson called the sergeant in his arms to escort green from the house of the house.
The representative to Green (D-TX) shouts when the president of the United States, Donald Trump, addresses a joint session of Congress in the United States Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Later, Green told ABC News that he would appreciate any consequence of his interruption, saying he was “following the desires of conscience.”
“There are times when it is better to be alone than not being at all,” he added.
The representative Al Green is eliminated from the Chamber when President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the Capitol in Washington, on March 4, 2025.
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After speech, Johnson said Green should be censored for his interruption.
“It is a show that was not necessary. He has made history in a terrible way. And I hope he enjoys it,” the House Speaker told journalists after the direction. “If you want to make a 77 -year -old congressman who faces her resistance, the Democratic Party. That. We will not tolerate him on the floor of the Chamber.”
Censorship is a formal reprimand of the Chamber for violations of the Chamber Code of Conduct and serves as a public conviction of its behavior.
The American representative to Green walks around a hall after being escorted for shouting during the speech of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to a joint session of the Congress, in the United States Capitol in Washington, on March 4, 2025.
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Johnson said he is “quite sure” that there will be several Republicans who will present a resolution of censorship against Green and that he would put the resolution to vote on the floor of the camera.
Other Democrats at the audience tried to show their disgust with Trump in slightly less disruptive ways. Several of them held black signs that said “false”, “save Medicaid”, “protect the veterans” and “steals musk”. Other strikes staged throughout the speech.
-Aren Peller of ABC News contributed to this report.
