House Minority Whip Steve Scalise Stephen (Steve) Joseph ScaliseHouse GOP slated to unveil agenda ahead of election House panel details 'serious' concerns around Florida, Georgia, Texas, Wisconsin elections Scalise hit with ethics complaint over doctored Barkan video MORE (R-La.) on Wednesday slammed new calls from some Democrats for President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE’s impeachment, saying they have hoped for the president's ouster since winning their House majority last year.

“This has been their plan all along. They’ve been pushing for impeachment since the day they won the majority,” he said in an appearance on Fox News.

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“People aren’t going to stand for this. If they want to pursue this road, it’s going to be again, at the peril of their majority,” he added, saying impeachment is “the only way they can appease their radical left base.”

Scalise, a close ally of the president, hammered Democrats for focusing on impeachment rather than other legislative priorities.

“Frankly this isn’t what the American people elected them to do. So I think there’s going to be a heavy price for Democrats who go down this path. Look, they spent two years and over $30 million in taxpayer money lying, saying that there was proof of collusion, that there was proof of collusion. There was none of it,” he said.

Democratic calls for impeachment ramped up Wednesday after special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE held a rare press conference in which he maintained that he could not exonerate Trump of any crimes and that “the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.”

“If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” Mueller said. “We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.”

The special counsel wrote in his final report earlier this year that there was no evidence to suggest Trump conspired with Russia in its meddling in the 2016 election but that he would not make a prosecutorial judgment over whether the president obstructed subsequent probes into the interference.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiHoyer: House should vote on COVID-19 aid — with or without a bipartisan deal Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose at Supreme Court McCarthy threatens motion to oust Pelosi if she moves forward with impeachment MORE (D-Calif.) and other Democratic leaders in the House have thus far beat back rank-and-file calls for impeachment, with the California Democrat on Wednesday only committing to continuing the House’s oversight efforts.

“The Congress holds sacred its constitutional responsibility to investigate and hold the President accountable for his abuse of power. The Congress will continue to investigate and legislate to protect our elections and secure our democracy. The American people must have the truth,” she said.