House Democrat leaders are set to oppose an effort by one of their own to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, calling it “a distraction.”

Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., who chairs the Democratic Caucus, told reporters that the impeachment resolution from Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., is “not the right approach we should be taking” and pulls the focus away from the party’s efforts to block the Republican president’s domestic agenda.

“We’ll join the members of the leadership team in voting to table that motion,” Aguilar said during a press briefing in the Capitol, according to The Hill. “Right now, our focus is on health care being stripped away from the American people. That is the most urgent and dire thing that we could be talking about this week. Everything else is a distraction.”

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