US House Blocks Impeachment Push Against Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth
WASHINGTON, November 11, 2026 (VoM News): In a major sigh of relief for Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, the bid for his impeachment was blocked by the ‘US House of Representatives” on Tuesday.
As an attempted to impeach Defence Secretary was made over his handling of the war with Iran and other military operations, which got failed due to backing of Republicans, despite growing criticism of the Trump administration’s policies.
A motion got failed after the lawmakers voted by 211-204, to send the impeachment resolution back to committee, effectively halting the effort led by Republican Representative Thomas Massie and supported by Democrats.
As the Republicans suffered significant losses in the midterm elections, with some members of the party blaming the Iran war and rising fuel prices for the results, and now, thus leading to the impeachment motion.
Republican Representative Thomas Massie who brought the resolution contained eight articles of impeachment, primarily focused on the administration’s military campaign against Iran, and also raised concerns about US operations in Yemen and Venezuela, alleged strikes on suspected drug-smuggling vessels in Latin America and Hegseth’s actions against Democratic Senator Mark Kelly.
He accused the Defence Secretary of implementing the unlawful orders intentionally, knowingly and continued military operations in Iran without congressional authorisation.
He cited the constitutional requirement for US forces to withdraw from hostilities within 60 days unless Congress authorises their continued involvement.
However, Hegseth rejected the allegations during his first Pentagon news conference in six months, describing the impeachment effort as politically motivated and called it a sabotage, not patriotism.
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