{"id":14805,"date":"2026-11-11T07:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/us-house-blocks-impeachment-bid-against-hegseth-over-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:45:48","slug":"us-house-blocks-impeachment-bid-against-hegseth-over-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/us-house-blocks-impeachment-bid-against-hegseth-over-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"US House blocks impeachment bid against Hegseth over Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday blocked an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Iran war, handing President Donald Trump a victory days after his party\u2019s crushing midterm election defeat.<\/p>\n

The House voted 211 to 204 to send the impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee, effectively derailing a planned vote Wednesday on whether to bring formal charges against the embattled Pentagon chief.<\/p>\n

The resolution was introduced by Republican Thomas Massie, a Trump critic who was the only member of his party to oppose the procedural maneuver, according to US media.<\/p>\n

The impeachment drive had threatened to deepen Trump\u2019s troubles after Democrats swept last week\u2019s midterms, with anger at the sputtering Iran war and soaring fuel prices helping drive voters to a historic rejection of Republicans.<\/p>\n

Republicans still hold a narrow House majority until January, when Democrats take control of both chambers of Congress. And 11 Democrats missed the vote.<\/p>\n

Trump hailed the procedural defeat as an \u201cEXONERATION of a Great American Patriot,\u201d in a post on Truth Social, while Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, in a post on X, called the vote as a \u201cTOTAL VICTORY!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to ending this sham impeachment in the committee room, where facts will continue to prevail and this distraction can be put to rest,\u201d Parnell added.<\/p>\n

Hegseth earlier Tuesday dismissed the impeachment effort as a \u201cfarce\u201d and defended his record leading the Iran war and other military operations under Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a farce, and it\u2019s a stunt, and everybody knows it,\u201d he said at a Pentagon press conference, branding the accusations \u201cslander\u201d and \u201csabotage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moments after Hegseth\u2019s televised appearance, Trump signaled his support.<\/p>\n

\u201cPete Hegseth gets an \u2018A\u2019 PLUS, PLUS, PLUS,\u201d the 80-year-old president wrote on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance also backed the defense secretary, saying he had \u201cobviously not\u201d committed impeachable offenses.<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u2018Would do it again\u2019 \u2013<\/h2>\n

Massie\u2019s eight articles of impeachment accused Hegseth of illegally waging war without congressional authorization and abusing his powers as Pentagon chief.<\/p>\n

Several related to the eight-month Iran war, accusing him of violating the War Powers Resolution, which places limits on US military interventions without congressional authorization.<\/p>\n

Other allegations involved the 2025 conflict with Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthis and strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, which Massie branded \u201cextrajudicial killings.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also accused Hegseth of suppressing free speech by trying to punish Democratic Senator Mark Kelly over a video urging military and intelligence personnel to refuse illegal orders.<\/p>\n

Hegseth defended the operations in Yemen, Iran, Venezuela and against alleged drug smugglers, while seeking to equate the impeachment effort with an attack on US troops.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stand behind every one of these operations. I was proud to execute them, and I would do it again tomorrow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The decision to send the resolution to committee halts the immediate impeachment drive but does not prevent Democrats from reviving the effort after taking control of Congress in January.<\/p>\n

Massie, who lost his Republican primary to a Trump-backed challenger, will leave Congress at the end of his term.<\/p>\n

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