Impeachment article has 200 cosponsors: US rep.

Vice President Mike Pence arrived at the White House Friday afternoon, after spending Thursday away from the White House complex.

Pence will be participating in meetings and calls at the White House and planned to stop by his office’s weekly staff meeting, according to his office.

The vice president’s office did not respond to questions about whether Pence planned to meet with Trump amid calls from Democrats for Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Pence remained at his residence at the Naval Observatory grounds in Washington all day Thursday, according to a senior administration official, and received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, his office said Thursday.

-ABC News' Ben Gittleson and Elizabeth Thomas

Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris introduced their nominees to lead the Commerce and Labor departments, as well as the Small Business Administration -- all posts that will be critical to implementing his economic agenda once he takes office later this month.

Biden opened by touting the historic firsts of his Cabinet.

"This will be the first Cabinet ever that is evenly composed of as many women as men," Biden began. "This will be the first Cabinet ever with a majority of people of color occupying this Cabinet. And it has more than a dozen history-making appointments, including the first woman secretary of treasury, first African American defense secretary, the first openly gay Cabinet member, and the first Native American Cabinet secretary."

Biden is nominating Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo for secretary of commerce. Raimondo, who was elected as the state's first female governor in 2014, was under consideration to be Biden's running mate and was a potential choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

For secretary of labor, Biden is nominating Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Walsh, who has led Boston since 2014, would be the first union member to serve in the post in almost half a century if confirmed by the Senate.

Biden also introduced Isabel Guzman as his pick to serve as small business administrator. She currently serves as the director of California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate and is a key leader in the state’s COVID-19 economic recovery.

Finally, Biden is nominating Don Graves, an executive at KeyBank, as his nominee for deputy secretary of commerce.

All the positions introduced Friday, except deputy commerce secretary, are Cabinet level.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he has reached out to Biden and plans to talk to him later Friday about uniting the country -- as he expresses opposition to the idea of impeaching Trump again.

“Impeaching the President with just 12 days left in his term will only divide our country more,” McCarthy wrote in a statement Friday. “I have reached out to President-elect Biden today and plan to speak to him about how we must work together to lower the temperature and unite the country to solve America’s challenges.”

McCarthy also confirmed he spoke with Trump on Wednesday to urge him “to intervene to quell the mob.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, told colleagues on a caucus call Friday afternoon she is planning to speak with Biden later in the day about how she wants to move forward regarding Trump after publicly calling for his removal from office.

-ABC News' John Parkinson

In a caucus call with House Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley assured her "safeguards" are in place when she expressed her concerns about Trump having access to nuclear codes in the last days of his presidency, sources on the line told ABC News.

She said she is planning to talk to Biden later in the day about how to move forward regarding Trump, according to sources on the call, after publicly calling for Trump's immediate removal through the 25th Amendment or through impeachment if Vice President Mike Pence and Cabinet officials refuse to proceed. 

"The president chose to be an insurrectionist," Pelosi said on the call, according to sources.

"Impeachment encourages conversation on the 25th Amendment. That’s picked up a lot of steam," she said.

Pelosi, according another source, said she is "emotionally" devastated by Wednesday but remains "dispassionate" about how to move forward.

More than half the caucus -- or 130 House Democrats -- are calling for Trump's immediate impeachment and have co-sponsored a resolution from Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I. The House could take it up and pass it to the Senate as soon as next week.  

But some Democrats are urging caution, wary of derailing Biden's agenda. Pelosi wanted to take the temperature of her members before discussing her options with the president-elect.

-ABC News' Mariam Khan, Benjamin Siegel, and Katherine Faulders