House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who will likely be the Speaker of the House come January, said Sunday that he is a “hard yes” when it comes to impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
“I’m a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution. The so-called secretary of Defense has abused his power, undermined our national security and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran,” Jeffries said to ABC News’s Jonathan Karl on “This Week.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) had told Karl that he intends to introduce a resolution of impeachment against the defense secretary.
“I’m a hard yes to pick the lowest-hanging fruit imaginable.”
Seriously, he didn’t say “convict” because removal still requires 2/3 of the Senate, and the Dems only have 54%, not 66%.
This is very likely Jeffries plan to waste as much time as possible. They need to get him the fuck out of that chair.
Nah, this is smart. Convict the provable war criminal who doesn’t have branded merch for the cult, if you can’t get him you can’t get Trump.
I just don’t trust Jeffries to take Step 2.
they can’t do anything to Hegseth without 60% of the Senate. Maybe this will pressure trump to appoint someone else, but that might actually be worse for everyone if he does it in the next few weeks.