US House GOP blocks effort to impeach Hegseth

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has survived an impeachment effort, at least for now, after the U.S. House on Tuesday blocked a vote over charges that the Cabinet official oversaw extrajudicial killings and an illegal war against Iran. The House voted 211-204, largely along party lines, to refer articles of impeachment against Hegseth to a committee — effectively killing the impeachment effort until the end of the current Congress in January. Eleven Democrats and seven Republicans missed the vote. The vote came hours after Hegseth defended himself in a fiery news conference at the Pentagon, where he denounced the impeachment effort as an attack on American service members. He called the bid to remove him a “farce” and flatly rejected the notion that he had committed impeachable offenses as the top civilian leader of the military. He likened himself to President Donald Trump, who was twice impeached during his first term. “Let’s be clear about what this resolution actually does.

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