Republicans manage to stop the attempt to impeach the Secretary of Defense in Congress

The United States House of Representatives rejected this Tuesday the impeachment proposal against the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, promoted by the rebel Republican congressman Thomas Massie. The initiative has been stopped with a total of 211 votes in favor compared to 204 against referring the articles of impeachment to the House Judiciary Committee, a decision that in practice prevents the impeachment from reaching a debate and direct vote in the plenary session and annuls it, at least during this legislature. Despite the tightness, up to 11 Democrats and seven Republicans have not participated in the vote.

In this way, the deputies have avoided commenting on the substance of the accusations against the head of the Pentagon in recent active weeks. The next Congress will begin on January 3, with the entire lower house and a third of the Senate renewed. Both, from then on, with a huge Democratic majority, one more than enough to put this issue, and many others, back on the table.

"The Democrats' attempt to remove Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has failed miserably! All Republicans except Thomas Massie, a big loser, voted for Pete. Once again, victories in Venezuela and Iran, the best recruiting numbers in the history of the Armed Forces (long wait lists to join!), and a spirit rarely seen, led to the exoneration of a great American patriot. Democrats continue to instrumentalize and abuse the United States of America. We must stop them! LET'S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President Trump celebrated in a message on his social network.

The impeachment has been the political news of the day in Washington. Massie's initiative, which if it had been successful, would have led to a vote tomorrow on the future of the Secretary of Defense, just on the day that the United States celebrates Veterans Day nationally, contemplated eight articles of impeachment in which Hegseth was accused of committing alleged violations of the Constitution and federal legislation. Among the main 'charges' were the participation of the United States in military operations against Iran without authorization from Congress, the management of attacks that caused civilian casualties (especially hospitals and a school) as well as the operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of Maduro or attacks in Yemen. The Republican congressman maintained that the accusations did not respond to political disagreements, but to the long series of violations of the laws that, in his opinion, justified the dismissal of the Secretary of Defense.