众议院民主党人指责唐纳德·特朗普总统在与民主党人斗争时行为不检冠状病毒将于周五提出一项提议，建立一个小组来确定总统是否适合根据宪法第25修正案任职。
此前，众议院议长南希·佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)周四表示，特朗普处于“改变的状态”，但表示这可能不适用于他。
根据马里兰州众议员杰米·拉斯金(Jamie Raskin)2017年提出的一份提案的文本，该措施将设立一个专家小组，成员由众议院和参议院的民主党和共和党领导人任命，在国会的指导下进行医学检查，以“确定总统是否在精神上或身体上无法履行办公室的权力和职责”。
拉斯金是前宪法教授和众议院司法委员会成员，他说，该小组将包括医生以及前总统和内阁秘书，他们每人任期四年。
他在本周早些时候的一次采访中说，“人口在变老，政治家也在变老”。“不难想象，在未来的情况下，总统的身体和精神状态可能会给我们带来问题。因此，我们只需要确保我们有一个结构和流程来解决这个问题。”
2020年10月8日，DC国会大厦，众议院议长南希·佩洛西在每周新闻发布会上做手势。
佩洛西将于周五与拉斯金一起重新提出这项措施。本周，在特朗普总统接受新冠肺炎治疗期间，佩洛西在公开和私下场合一再表示对特朗普总统健康的担忧。
特朗普在医生的指导下，一直在服用地塞米松，这是一种用于减轻COVID患者肺部炎症的类固醇，在某些情况下，这可能会引起精神副作用，包括情绪波动、愤怒和精神病。
佩洛西周四在一次采访中说:“我们应该说，总统现在处于一个改变的状态。”采访彭博电视。“我不知道如何为那种行为负责。”
她继续说，“有些人说，当你服用类固醇或患有新冠肺炎病时，你的判断力可能会受到一些损害。”
特朗普的医生肖恩·康利(Sean Conley)医生对总统的病情几乎没有提供任何信息，并一再表示自相矛盾在周末的新闻发布会上，特朗普周一向记者声称，特朗普没有表现出冠状病毒的任何神经症状，也没有表现出治疗的副作用。
2020年10月5日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在离开马里兰州贝塞斯达的沃尔特·里德国家军事医疗中心返回白宫时做手势。特朗普于10月2日宣布他的新冠肺炎检测呈阳性。
共和党人周四指责佩洛西试图削弱总统，此前她在每周新闻发布会上暗示了新的提议。特朗普转发了几条批评她的信息。
我不会忘记的@SpeakerPelosi发动政变。
她已经把弹劾武器化了，有什么能阻止她把第25修正案武器化?
我们需要一个新的扬声器!https://t.co/W2j3GP3Imt
—代表标记绿色(@代表标记绿色)2020年10月8日
。@SpeakerPelosi会不择手段的拿下@realDonaldTrump。
首先是俄罗斯的骗局，然后是虚假的弹劾。现在她试图援引第25修正案，因为他...从冠状病毒中完全康复?
我们不会让她得逞的。https://t.co/L9fRPFpynC
——道格·柯林斯众议员(@RepDougCollins)2020年10月8日
尽管佩洛西对特朗普心存疑虑，但她没有呼吁援引第25修正案来反对他，并表示周二晚上的提议可能适用于未来的总统。
“我不认为这对这位总统有效，但我确实认为，嗯，对这位总统来说，你知道，三个半月，但我们可以为未来建立它，这样就有更多的清晰度和支持，”她在纽约市第92街Y主办的直播活动上说。
第25修正案于1967年在约翰·肯尼迪总统遇刺后获得批准，概述了在死亡、丧失行为能力、免职或辞职的情况下将总统权力移交给副总统的程序。
修正案说，总统是否能履行职责的决定将由副总统和大多数内阁秘书或“国会可能依法规定的其他机构”决定，拉斯金说，他的提议旨在建立这些机构。
修正案规定:“每当副总统和行政部门或国会依法规定的其他机构的主要官员中的大多数人向参议院临时议长和众议院议长递交书面声明，表示总统不能履行其职务的权力和职责时，副总统应立即承担代理总统职务的权力和职责。”
“国会还没有建立这样一个机构，但我认为我们应该这样做，”拉斯金告诉美国广播公司新闻。"我希望在1967年第25修正案通过后就这样做了。"
Pelosi to propose experts review a president's mental fitness under 25th Amendment
House Democrats, who have accused President Donald Trump of acting erratically as he battles thecoronavirus, on Friday will introduce a proposal to establish a panel to determine a president's fitness for office under the Constitution’s 25th Amendment.
The move comes after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday Trump was in an "altered state," but has said it likely wouldn't apply to him.
The measure would create an expert panel - with members appointed by Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate - to conduct a medical exam at the direction of Congress to “determine whether the President is mentally or physically unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office," according to the text of a version of the proposal introduced in 2017 by Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland.
Raskin, a former constitutional law professor and member of the House Judiciary Committee, said the panel would include doctors as well as former presidents and Cabinet secretaries, who would each serve four-year terms.
“The population is getting older, politicians are getting older,” he said in an interview earlier this week. “It's not hard to think that there will be future situations where the president's physical and mental state may create issues for us. So, we just need to make sure that we have a structure and a process in place to address it.”
Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi gestures during the Weekly News Conference on Capitol Hill, Oct. 8, 2020 in Washington, DC.
Pelosi, who will reintroduce the measure with Raskin on Friday, has repeatedly expressed concerns in public and private this week about President Trump’s health amid his treatment for COVID-19.
Trump, at the direction of his doctors, has been taking dexamethasone, a steroid used to reduce lung inflammation in COVID patients, that can, in some cases, prompt psychiatric side effects, including mood swings, rage and psychosis.
“The president is, shall we say, in an altered state right now,” Pelosi said Thursday during aninterviewwith Bloomberg TV. “I don’t know how to answer for that behavior.”
She continued, "There are those who say when you are on steroids or have COVID-19, there may be some impairment of judgment.”
Dr. Sean Conley, Trump's doctor, who has provided little information about the president's condition and repeatedlycontradicted himselfin press conferences over the weekend, claimed to reporters on Monday that Trump has not displayed any neurological symptoms from the coronavirus, or side effects from his treatment.
President Donald Trump gestures as he returns to the White House, Oct. 5, 2020, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. Trump announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 2.
Republicans on Thursday accused Pelosi of trying to undermine the president after she alluded to the new proposal in her weekly news conference. Trump retweeted several messages criticizing her.
I wouldn’t put it past@SpeakerPelosito stage a coup.
She has already weaponized impeachment, what’s to keep her from weaponizing the 25th amendment?
We need a new Speaker!https://t.co/W2j3GP3Imt
— Rep. Mark Green (@RepMarkGreen)October 8, 2020
.@SpeakerPelosiwill stop at NOTHING to take down@realDonaldTrump.
First it was the Russia hoax, then sham impeachment. Now she’s trying to invoke the 25th amendment because he... fully recovered from the coronavirus?
We won’t let her get away with it.https://t.co/L9fRPFpynC
— Rep. Doug Collins (@RepDougCollins)October 8, 2020
Pelosi, despite her misgivings about Trump, has not called for invoking the 25th Amendment against him, and said Tuesday night the proposal would likely apply to future presidents.
“I don't say that would work for this president but I do think, well, for this presidency, you know, three and a half months, but we can establish it for the future so there's much more clarity and a backstop,” she said at a livestream event hosted by the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
Ratified in 1967 after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the 25th Amendment outlines procedures for a transfer of presidential power to the vice president in the cases of death, incapacitation, removal or resignation.
The amendment says the determination of whether a president can discharge their duties would be determined by the vice president and a majority of Cabinet secretaries or “such other body as Congress may by law provide,” which Raskin said his proposal is designed to establish.
The amendment states: “Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”
“Congress has not yet set up such a body but I think that we should,” Raskin told ABC News. “I wish it had been done after the 25th Amendment was adopted in 1967.”
