We, the undersigned, state that this petition concerns the current Congress and its leadership, and their active failure to perform the constitutional duties of the legislative branch.

Congressional leadership has committed governing malpractice.

Under Article I of the United States Constitution, Congress is vested with exclusive authority to authorize the use of military force, regulate foreign commerce and sanctions, control federal appropriations, conduct oversight of the executive branch, and enforce compliance with constitutional and statutory limits on presidential power. In the current Congress, leadership has willfully declined to exercise these authorities, allowing executive power to operate without lawful restraint.

The executive branch is undertaking military actions, sanctions regimes, arms transfers, covert operations, surveillance expansions, and foreign policy initiatives without prior congressional authorization, without recorded votes, and without enforceable oversight. Congress has not compelled compliance with the War Powers Resolution. Congress has not required binding legal justifications. Congress has not used its appropriations authority to restrict or terminate unauthorized actions. Leadership has permitted unilateral executive action to supplant constitutional process.

In addition, congressional leadership has failed to investigate, restrain, or halt extensive evidence of presidential corruption and self-dealing. Credible public reporting and financial disclosures have raised serious concerns regarding bribes, backroom deals, foreign benefits, and the use of presidential power to enrich the president, his family, and close associates. These include the leveraging of foreign policy decisions, sanctions, recognition, arms sales, regulatory actions, and access to the presidency for private financial gain.

The Foreign Emoluments Clause of the Constitution explicitly prohibits the president from accepting any present, emolument, office, or benefit from a foreign state without the consent of Congress. Congressional leadership has not enforced this prohibition. No binding votes have been taken. No effective oversight has been conducted. No enforcement action has followed. Leadership has allowed alleged violations of the Emoluments Clause to continue unchecked.

By failing to investigate and restrain corruption tied directly to the exercise of executive power, congressional leadership has enabled a presidency that operates as a personal profit enterprise, rather than a public office. This failure is not incidental — it is central. Oversight has been abandoned not only over war and foreign policy, but over financial corruption at the highest level of government.

Congressional leadership has allowed the presidency to function as the sole decision-maker in matters that the Constitution explicitly assigns to Congress. Foreign interventions proceed without authorization. Sanctions with sweeping humanitarian and geopolitical consequences expand without votes. Emergency powers continue without review. Oversight mechanisms remain unused by choice, not necessity.

This Congress has also failed at basic governance. Leadership allowed the federal government to shut down for weeks, disrupting public services, destabilizing agencies, and demonstrating an inability to perform the most elementary legislative function: passing appropriations. Extended recesses and procedural paralysis followed while executive power expanded unchecked and oversight stalled.

Meanwhile, healthcare administration, regulatory enforcement, labor protections, and civil liberties have been left vulnerable — not because Congress lacked authority, but because leadership chose not to use it.

We demand the removal of current congressional leadership because they have demonstrated that they are beholden to the presidency, party apparatuses, major donors, billionaires, and powerful special interests — rather than to the Constitution or the public.

We deserve leadership that is independent of the president, regardless of party.

At a minimum, we demand leadership that reflects the governing approach demonstrated by Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie — representatives who assert congressional authority against executive overreach, force recorded votes, employ subpoenas and appropriations to enforce accountability, build functional cross-party coalitions, and treat war powers and civil liberties as binding constitutional obligations.

We are not asking for symbolism.
We are not asking for loyalty.
We are demanding a Congress that governs.

This petition calls for current congressional leadership to step aside and for leadership elections that elevate independent, anti-capture, constitutionally serious representatives.