COVID-19 & US healthcare system - thread relapse

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4. 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.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days 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. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

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So, that's what it would take to legally get a sitting President out of the Oval Office without an impeachment. Note the hurdles that have to be passed:

• the sitting Vice-President has to write a letter saying that the sitting President is not able to carry out his or her duties;
  
• the sitting President gets to write a letter saying he or she is able to carry out his or her duties;
  
• the sitting Vice-President has to follow up that letter saying, again, that the sitting President is not able to carry out his or her duties despite what the sitting President said; and
  
• both houses have to vote to agree with the sitting Vice-President with a two-thirds majority in each house.