Trump tweeted Sunday that a group of minority, liberal congresswomen should “go back” to their home countries. All four are U.S. citizens, and three of them were born in the United States. On Monday, Trump expressed no regrets about the statement when asked by reporters whether he was concerned that many people have called it racist.

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“It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me. And all I’m saying — they want to leave, they can leave,” he said at the White House.

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“To tolerate bigotry when you can do something about bigotry is to perpetuate it,” Green said in an interview Monday. “I will not tolerate the level of bigotry emanating from the president, especially in policy.”

The House voted 364 to 58 in December 2017, with Republicans in the majority, on a motion to table Green’s previous impeachment push. Green said Monday that things have changed: “I have had enough. I believe a good many of my colleagues have had enough. We’ll find out how many. And I think the American people are fed up with this behavior . . . This is the only place, by the way, where the president can be checked. There’s no other place.”

Green’s announcement threatens to complicate House Democratic leaders’ plans for July, including the much-anticipated July 24 testimony of former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. While more than 80 House Democrats have called for an impeachment inquiry based on Mueller’s report and other factors, many more have withheld judgment.

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Green said his impeachment push stood apart from the efforts to rebuke Trump for his alleged obstruction of justice.

“This is in no way going to impede that investigation. This is separate and apart from that,” the congressman said. “This deals with our original sin — it deals with the hatred and bigotry that has developed through the years for people of color, for members of the LGBTQ community, the trans community, those who are of the Islamic faith, those who are of the Jewish faith. It’s about people who have been marginalized and how we cannot allow the president of the United States to . . . fuel the flame of confusion as it relates to this level of bigotry.”

Democratic leaders could choose to move to table Green’s impeachment resolution, as Republican leaders did in 2017. He said such an outcome would be “greatly disappointing.”