The House blocked an effort to impeach Donald Trump‘s Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, voting to send the resolution to committee rather than hold a vote on the charges.
Lawmakers voted 211 to 204 to refer the measure to the House Judiciary Committee, effectively shelving the impeachment bid.
Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie, who introduced the resolution, was the only Republican to oppose that move, joining Democrats in an unsuccessful effort to keep his push alive.
Massie’s eight articles of impeachment accuse Hegseth of waging war in Iran without congressional authorization, ignoring laws intended to minimize civilian casualties and illegally directing the seizure
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