Hegseth Impeachment Push Fails Because Enough Dems Didn’t Show Up
Washington, D.C. — On Tuesday evening, House Republicans successfully defeated an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after 11 Democrats failed to vote. This hands President Donald Trump a significant victory following last week’s midterm elections and represents an embarrassing failure for House Democratic leadership, who knew in advance that attendance was key to this vote but still failed to deliver. Demand Progress has been leading a campaign to support Rep. Thomas Massie’s effort to impeach Hegseth and sent a letter asking every House member to vote for impeachment.
The following is a statement from Demand Progress Executive Director Sean Vitka:
“Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump can breathe a sigh of relief tonight thanks to House Democratic leadership. Today’s vote was an unacceptable failure. Everyone knew that attendance was key tonight but somehow Democratic leaders failed to deliver and handed Republicans a critical win. This vote is a massive disappointment to everyone who has been organizing to impeach Pete Hegseth and to all the voters who just showed up in record numbers for who they thought were Democrats ready to take on the Trump administration. What we saw tonight was not the Democratic Party that the American people were promised.”