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By Laura Litvan, Erik Wasson, and Billy House

January 7, 2021 at 4:42 PM UTC

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January 7, 2021 at 8:30 PM UTC

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer demanded that President Donald Trump’s cabinet immediately remove him from office and threatened a new drive to impeach him if they don’t act.

The two top Democrats in Congress on Thursday accused Trump of inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol and called him a continuing threat to democracy in his waning days in the White House.