{"id":13661,"date":"2026-11-09T19:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/republican-launches-impeachment-against-us-defense-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T19:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:30:46","slug":"republican-launches-impeachment-against-us-defense-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/republican-launches-impeachment-against-us-defense-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican launches impeachment against US defense chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pete-Hegseth.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Republican launches impeachment against US defense chief\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pete-Hegseth.webp 976w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pete-Hegseth-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pete-Hegseth-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Republican lawmaker moved Monday to impeach US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the war in Iran, setting up a potentially explosive vote in Congress just days after President Donald\u00a0Trump\u2019s party suffered a crushing midterm defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie introduced eight articles of impeachment accusing Hegseth of illegally waging war without congressional authorization and abusing his powers as Pentagon chief.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/republican-launches-impeachment-against-us-defense-chief\/\">Republican launches impeachment against US defense chief<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican lawmaker moved Monday to impeach US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the war in Iran, setting up a potentially explosive vote in Congress just days after President Donald\u00a0Trump\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}