The House has voted 211 to 204 to refer the articles of impeachment filed against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to committee, effectively killing the impeachment effort spearheaded by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
Tuesday’s vote short-circuits any potential floor vote on the articles of impeachment, and virtually guarantees the measure will not be taken up before the current session of Congress expires.
The vote provided a surprise reprieve for President Trump’s embattled Defense Secretary, who was facing an impeachment vote by the full House as early as Wednesday.
Massie reintroduced the articles of impeachment on Monday, accusing Hegseth of high crimes and misdemeanors in connection to the war with Iran and U.S. strikes against Iran and on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Also, Massie was full of shit when he said he had the votes. What a dork.
I think he did have the votes… from the Republican side and he just assumed all Dems would back it.
He probably expected to actually have the votes in the house. It was an unforced error that the impeachment failed in the house
Not that it mattered, because it was always guaranteed to fail in the senate, but would have been nice to have that bit of theater play out too
The votes failed to attend on time.
It is so stupid that they have to vote in person.
10 years ago, I’d have agreed
Now I think it’s a good thing. Too many old, tech illiterate people in congress. They’d be getting fooled by AI fakes in no time
That or someone will claim it was an AI fake of them that voted for them, to change their vote after the fact
I mean, make it secure and transparent. But make it so they don’t have to be physically there. Also, eat all the old people.