According to MS NOW, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is planning to move to force a vote on his articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Monday.

The maneuver could compel House members to vote on the articles of impeachment as soon as Wednesday.

“I’ve seen some of my colleagues say @SecWar Hegseth has been effective and they agree with the war, so they’ll vote not to impeach,” Massie said on Monday.

“That’s not the question though. The question is whether he committed impeachable acts, and the answer is yes, eight times,” he added.

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Once triggered, House GOP leadership must act on the resolution within two legislative days, meaning a vote can be expected by Wednesday or Thursday. Leadership can either put the resolution on the floor for a vote, set a vote to table the measure or set a vote to refer the measure back to committee.

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All three options would require majority votes for success, and it was not immediately clear Monday how leadership plans to handle it.

After Democrats’ watershed election wins last week, Trump doubled down on his support for Hegseth remaining in his role, telling reporters, “I think he’s doing a fantastic job.”

Hegseth and his advisers had expected that Massie would move to impeach Hegseth this week, according to a source with direct knowledge of their thinking, who was granted anonymity in order to discuss internal strategy.

Hegseth and his advisers believe he has a solid defense to the allegations, according to the source. They argued that “Hegseth carried out the lawful and well informed decision by the president” in every case, the source said.

Hegseth said on Monday that his team is “not worried about the noise” ahead of a likely impeachment vote.

“Don’t worry about the noise. There’s partisan noise all over our town. We’re focused on delivering the president’s agenda, which is the kind of funding our department needs in order to dominate the future,” he continued.

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Hegseth told reporters he’s “not worried” about the impeachment articles against him.

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Even if the House of Representatives impeaches Hegseth this week, it is very unlikely the Senate will reach the necessary two-thirds supermajority to convict him in an impeachment trial.

 

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Hegseth argued that starting the war with Iran was a “bold move” by Trump “and as the president points out so clearly — you can’t let crazy Islamists have a nuclear bomb.”

“The choice was don’t act and wish it away or take a bold move, which the president did with Midnight Hammer, which we’ve done with Epic Fury,” Hegseth said, referring to the code names for the strike on Iranian nuclear facilities and the larger war.

Hegseth’s public defense of the war comes after voters last week overwhelmingly showed the unpopularity of the conflict. According to The AP Voter Poll, a survey of more than 100,000 voters in the United States, about 6 in 10 said the U.S. made the “wrong decision” in taking military action against Iran, though the survey suggested the Iran war was not the top issue for most voters. Only about one-third of voters said the war in Iran was “crucial” to shaping how they voted for Congress. That was well below the roughly half who said that about the cost of living or government corruption.

 

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