President Trump has been impeached

President Trump has become the third president in history to be impeached.

The House passed both articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Here’s what you need to know about the vote:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tweeted moments ago that he would speak about President Trump’s impeachment on the floor at 9:30 a.m. ET tomorrow. 

Read his tweet:

The next steps in the impeachment saga all depends on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi would not commit tonight on sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate, which will hold a trial and decide whether to convict President Trump and remove him from office.

Why this matters: Some progressives have urged Democratic leaders to withhold the articles until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agrees to procedures for the Senate trial that Democrats have called for, as well as agreeing to bring in firsthand witnesses like acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to testify.

Pelosi said Democrats will make the decision “as a group” on when to send the articles to the Senate.

CNN’s Phil Mattingly noted there are procedural concerns behind not sending the articles tonight — Democrats can’t send them over tonight because the Senate would have to take it up tomorrow, and it would shut down action in the Senate. That would mess with appropriations.

“We cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side, and we hope that will be soon,” Pelosi said of naming impeachment managers for the Senate trial. “So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us, so hopefully it will be fair.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking right after the House impeached President Trump, said today is “a great day for the Constitution” but “a sad day for America.”

Pelosi continued:

“I view this day, this vote, as something that we did to honor the vision of our founders to establish a republic, the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform to defend our democracy and the republic, and the aspirations of our children that they will always live in a democracy, and we have tried to do everything we can to make sure that that is their reality.”

In the hours before the votes to impeach President Trump tonight, the atmosphere at the Trump International Hotel in Washington was nearly, but not quite, joyous. Two of the four televisions hanging above the lobby lounge bar were tuned to ESPN, with another tuned to Fox News and the last to CNN.

Few of the guests, if any, were paying much attention to the ongoing debate on the floor of the House of Representatives.

One of those at the bar was Heather Zabel, a 35-year-old nursing student in Virginia who considers herself a big fan of Trump’s.

“Big deal,” Zabel said, gesturing at the TV showing lawmakers arguing about impeaching Trump. “This is only making Republicans angry. And we’re going to vote for him again.”

The general consensus around the bar from Trump supporters echoed the Republican talking-points: that Democrats were pushing impeachment because they couldn’t stand seeing him in the White House. The “Russia collusion” gambit failed, and Ukraine was just the next effort to undo the 2016 election.

After the House passed the second impeachment count, Zabel’s face had fallen. Everything had happened as predicted — Trump was impeached, but he was still more than likely to be acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate.

As she spoke, the crowd around the bar began to thin out. Some shuffled across the lobby to have dinner at the hotel restaurant. Others began to head for the doors. Those who stayed looked down from the TVs and to their phones, or back to their own conversations. At Trump’s hotel, just blocks from the Capitol and the White House after the impeachment of the President, life had moved on.

President Trump called on his supporters to “vote Pelosi the hell out of office” while speaking at a Christmas MAGA rally in Michigan tonight.

“Americans will show up by the tens of millions next year to vote Pelosi the hell out of office,” Trump said in Michigan.

Trump then criticized Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat representing Manhattan, and commented on donating to her over the years adding, “Give me back the damn money.” 

Trump also attacked Congressman Debbie Dingell, calling her a “real beauty.”

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that Maloney is a Republican. She is a Democrat.

Watch Trump’s ‘disgraceful’ reaction to impeachment:

As President Trump officially became the third US president to be impeached, he was on stage at a “Merry Christmas” rally in Michigan laying into Democrats and claiming they’ve “branded themselves with an eternal mark of shame.”

Trump likened the impeachment proceedings to a “political suicide march” and said he would prevail in the end.

“Have you seen my polls?” an incredulous-sounding Trump said to roars.

Shortly after the impeachment vote closed, Trump decried the situation in which he finds himself.

“After three years of sinister witch hunts, hoaxes, scams, the House Democrats are trying to nullify the ballots of tens of millions of patriotic Americans,” he said.

Watch President Trump take aim at Democrats:

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said President Trump “should be tried” by the Senate.

Schiff said the question is now whether “Senator McConnell will allow a fair trial in the Senate.”

He said the American people want to hear the testimony of people like John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney — and “see what’s in those documents that the President has been hiding.”

Watch here:

President Trump has acknowledged the vote to impeach him, which occurred as he was speaking on stage in Michigan.

The votes occurred in the middle of his speech. It appeared he learned of the vote tallies from an aide.

Trump used the result to tout Republican unity.

“The Republican Party has never been so affronted but they have never been so united as they are right now,” he said.

He said it was “unheard of” that some Democrats would vote against the impeachment.

“The Democrats always stick together. Think of it: 3 Democrats went over to our side,” he said.

Nancy Pelosi shot her members a look when it appeared that several House Democrats cheered or applauded after she announced that the articles of impeachment had passed.

Earlier in the day, the House Speaker told Democrats not to celebrate during the vote.

Watch here:

The vote on the second article of impeachment — obstruction of Congress — spilt almost entirely along party lines.

Here’s the final vote count:

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, was again the only Democrat to vote present.

The White House just released a statement following the impeachment of President Trump, calling it “one of the most shameful political episodes in the history of our nation.”

The statement went on to call the impeachment a “sham” that denied the President “fundamental fairness and due process under the law.”

The White House further stated: “All of these antics make clear that Democrats have lost sight of what this country needs, which is a Congress that works for the people. Their boundless animus for President Trump fuels their desire to nullify the 2016 election results, and improperly influence the 2020 election.”

Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who is a representative from Hawaii, released a statement explaining her decision to vote “present” on the first article of impeachment against President Trump.

Gabbard is the only candidate who is a member of congress who is able to vote on impeachment. The other congressmembers who are running are all members of the Senate.

The US House of Representatives just adjourned for the night.

The House will return tomorrow at 9 a.m. ET.

Lawmakers debated for six hours on the floor before voting on the articles of impeachment tonight.

In a historic move, the House of Representatives has passed two articles of impeachment against President Trump.

The House voted primarily along party lines to impeach Trump on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

A majority of the US House of Representatives have voted to support the second article of impeachment — obstruction of Congress — against President Trump.

House Democrats have 216 votes. Lawmakers are still voting on the House floor.

What happened just moments ago: The House voted almost entirely along party lines to charge Trump with abuse of power, the first article of impeachment.

Here’s what how the vote on the first article of impeachment — abuse of power — went down:

One member, Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, voted present.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the final vote from the speaker’s chair. 

Most members are voting through the electronic system, but a large number of members are voting with paper cards, which is just a more formal way to register a vote.

That makes the process move a little more slowly, because the House clerk has to plug it into the electronic system instead of the members doing it themselves.

Members are able to come back to get their card and keep it afterward, something they like to do on important and historic votes.

The House has 5 minutes to vote on the second article of impeachment: obstruction of Congress.

The House of Representatives just took the historic step to impeach President Trump.

It’s only the third time in history that this has been done.