If Trump is removed from office, Pence and Pelosi are next in line by lisettevoytko
site suggested that Democrats might want to remove Pelosi so it doesn’t appear that they’re working to have the president succeeded by a Democrat. Whether Pence, Pompeo, Barr or Perry will become further embroiled in the impeachment inquiry. the Senate’s president pro tempore as next in line after the vice president. Then, in 1886, Congress expanded the succession list by adding Cabinet members.
In 1947, President Harry Truman signed a new version of the Presidential Succession Act, making the House Speaker second in line. In 2006, with the passage of the Patriot Act, the Homeland Security secretary was made 18th in line.So far, eight vice presidents have assumed the presidency after the incumbent died. And only one VP became president after a resignation—Gerald Ford after Richard Nixon’s, to be exact.
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