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Jeffries Announces Support for Hegseth Impeachment
- The House will likely vote on impeaching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth this week, with Republican leaders expecting the measure to pass with a simple majority despite party divisions.
- Following Tuesday's midterm elections, lawmakers are pushing impeachment after the Iran war championed by Hegseth contributed to Republicans losing their congressional majority.
- Rep. Thomas Massie is forcing the vote, and according to Axios, the political calculus "has now shifted dramatically" since Tuesday with GOP anger fueling impeachment support.
- Chief spokesman Sean Parnell said Hegseth "will not back down," though removing him from office would require a two-thirds supermajority of 67 Senators in the Upper House.
- While the current House may impeach, Democrats plan to make investigating the Department of War "a key focus of their agenda" next year, though removal remains unlikely in the Senate.
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Pete Hegseth Is In Deep Trouble: He Is on Thin Ice with Donald Trump and Could Soon Be Impeached
The House could impeach the Defense Secretary as soon as this week, Axios reports, making him only the third Cabinet secretary ever impeached. Republicans are angry over the Iran war, a Republican congressman is introducing articles of impeachment, and a retiring Republican says he doesn’t have “a lot of love” on the Hill.
MichaelSavage.com – Calls to impeach Pete Hegseth reach fever pitch as Democrats vow to bring Trump and his allies down
Top House Democrats are already salivating at the prospect of holding top figures in the Trump Administration accountable for their actions over the last two years. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, likely to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, fully backed a resolution from Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie to impeach Defense Secretary…
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