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.
Fuck Jeffries, but it does make sense for him to only say “impeach” without mentioning removal as he’s in The House and has no control over the Senate’s vote.
I get that he doesn’t have the power to do anything beyond MC the show, that’s why it’s meaningless for him to speak up
I mean no, he is the leader of the Democratic party in the House of Representatives. He absolutely should be talking about impeaching (and not just Hegseth). It’s just not really surprising that he is only talking about the first part and not the removal since that’s not the purview of The House.