More than half of the House Democratic caucus supports opening an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

The number of House Democrats calling for an impeachment inquiry reached 118﻿ with the support of Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) on Friday, and now includes more than half of the 235-person Democratic caucus. (Other news outlets have previously reported that a majority of House Democrats supported an impeachment inquiry. HuffPost has only been counting explicit and open calls for an inquiry, and not hedged statements that a member would support impeachment under certain conditions. The majority threshold for those had not been reached until now.)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has sought to tamp down impeachment talk ever since Democrats won control of the House in the 2018 elections, contending that impeachment might backfire and help Trump’s reelection. She dismissed calls for an inquiry in May by noting the small number of supporters. “Yes, there are some, and the press makes more of a fuss about the 38 than the 200,” she said at the time.

But Pelosi now finds herself opposed to the position of a majority of her caucus, including front-line freshmen in swing districts like Reps. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), Chris Pappas (D-N.H.), Katie Porter (D-Calif.), Mike Levin (D-Calif.) and Harley Rouda (D-Calif.).

The Democratic caucus milestone still leaves impeachment supporters far short of the 218 votes they need in the House to begin the process, as Congress did in the cases of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.

Calls for an impeachment inquiry have steadily grown since the release of then-special counsel Robert Mueller’s “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election” on April 18.

Mueller’s report detailed instances in which Trump may have obstructed justice to end, derail or stymie the investigation, but noted criminal charges could not be brought because of a Department of Justice policy forbidding the indictment of a sitting president. The report noted that there is another constitutional redress to presidential abuses of power ― an allusion to impeachment.