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.) on Wednesday said 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 threat to impose tariffs on all imports from Mexico is just a "distraction" from the Mueller report.

“I don’t even think it rises to the level of policy, it’s notion-mongering, again,” she said at a press conference. “Let’s face what it is: It’s a distraction from the Mueller report.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Trump's proposed tariffs on Mexico are "a distraction from the Mueller report." https://t.co/ml0730Zhre pic.twitter.com/C0MQS7BnZD — ABC News (@ABC) June 5, 2019

More Democrats have called for the House to begin impeachment proceedings for Trump 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 said at a press conference last week that his 448-page report does not exonerate the president.

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He said that if his office “had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”

The day after Mueller's public remarks, Trump announced a 5 percent tariff on all imports from Mexico, starting June 10 "until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP."

Vice President Pence on Wednesday is scheduled to meet with top Mexican officials who are hoping to persuade the Trump administration to reconsider the planned tariffs, which have drawn bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.