GOP Leadership Derails Massie’s Push to Impeach Hegseth

On Tuesday night, the House of Representatives voted to send Rep. Thomas Massie’s articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to committee, effectively killing the legislation.

In a 211-204 vote, the articles of impeachment were sent to the Judiciary Committee. Republican leadership was able to rally members to show up and vote, while 11 Democrats and seven Republicans missed the vote. The vote was essentially along party lines, with one Republican voting against sending the articles to committee.

“The Democrats’ attempt to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has miserably FAILED!” President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social.

“Every single Republican, except Thomas Massie, a major LOSER, voted in favor of Pete. Again, Victories in Venezuela and Iran, the Best Recruitment Numbers in the History of the Military (Long waiting lists to get in!), and Spirit like rarely seen before, led to the EXONERATION of a Great American Patriot. The Democrats continue to weaponize and abuse the United States of America. They must be stopped,” the president continued.

On Friday, Massie told the Daily Signal that he believed he had gathered support from Republicans following the massive “blue wave” that will send Republicans into the minority for the 120th Congress.

“Some people will vote for it because they’re not coming back, I think, and some people will vote for it because they want to put some daylight between themselves and this administration or themselves in this war,” Massie said last week. “It’s an opportunity for them to show the people that they got the message, even if Trump hasn’t shown that he got the message.”

However, Massie suspected Republican leadership might attempt to refer the articles to a committee to effectively kill the legislation, rather than holding a vote on the impeachment itself.

“I’ve heard from several members [that] they agree with some of the Articles of Impeachment but not all of them,” Massie posted Tuesday on X.

“If the motion to kill my resolution by referring it to committee fails, and we proceed to the Articles themselves, I’ll request a vote on each of the Articles separately,” he continued.

Massie, who will not return to Congress in January after losing his May primary, has roughly 20 legislative days left in office. His next effort will likely be to advance his Epstein Files Transparency Act II, which he says needs only two more signatures to force a vote.

“These two things will be more than the entire conference does on its own, outside of the CR [continuing resolution]. I mean, they had to shut Congress down for two-and-a-half weeks to avoid these two things,” he concluded when speaking to the Daily Signal on Friday.

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