Hegseth impeachment resolution filed in US House, Digi Mart USA News: Republican Representative Thomas Massie has submitted a motion in the US House of Representatives to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth has come under increasing pressure following the Republicans’ setback in the midterm elections over the Iran war.
Removing the defense secretary from office would require a two-thirds majority in the Senate. The motion, introduced by Massie on Monday, focuses primarily on the war against Iran but also references Hegseth’s role in military operations in Yemen and Venezuela.
A House vote could take place as early as midweek.
“Some of my colleagues claim that Defense Secretary Hegseth has worked effectively and that they support the war, so they want to vote against impeachment,” Massie wrote on Monday on the platform X. “But that is not the point.
The question is whether he committed acts that justify impeachment, and the answer is yes, eight times.”
Earlier, Hegseth defended the military action carried out by the administration of President Donald Trump in Iran and Venezuela. He said on Monday that he looked forward to discussing the policy decisions.
He announced a press conference for Tuesday on the threatened impeachment, his first in more than 180 days.
Hegseth said that anyone who questions what the government achieved in operations against Iran, the Houthis in Yemen, or the capture of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro “questions the soldiers and their historic achievements.”
Last week, Hegseth posted a video on Instagram defending his tenure. “A bitter, failed congressman, together with all his Democratic allies, has initiated a sham impeachment against me, just as they have already tried twice against President Trump,” he said.
“This is purely about a politics of personal destruction. It did not work for President Trump, and it will not work for me either.”
Republican Representative French Hill did not rule out supporting impeachment over the weekend. “I want to follow the debate to see whether it justifies impeachment,” he told CBS.
Even if the House approved impeachment with the votes of Democrats and some Republicans, Hegseth would likely not be removed from his post, because a two-thirds majority in the Senate would be required. Asked whether he had enough Republican support to block the process, Hegseth said: “We are not worried about that.”
