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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed back against efforts to impeach him in a defiant address Tuesday morning, a day after Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky reintroduced a resolution forcing the House to take up the issue within two legislative days.
Massie’s resolution includes eight articles of impeachment, accusing Hegseth of violating the War Powers Resolution of 1973, citing the lack of congressional oversight on the Iran war which Massie argues was “unlawful from its inception.” Another charge accuses Hegseth of “ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties.” Outside of the Iran conflict, the charges also allege the “kidnapping of a sovereign foreign leader,” in reference to the U.S.’ capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in January—an act Massie says was carried out “without constitutional or legal authority.”
Read more: https://time.com/article/2026/11/09/trump-defends-hegseth-as-republican-led-impeachment-vote-looms/
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