{"id":88295,"date":"2026-11-11T07:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88295"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:24:16","slug":"hegseth-impeachment-effort-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/hegseth-impeachment-effort-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth Impeachment Effort Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The House on Tuesday turned aside a resolution to impeach<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/pete-hegseth\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,<\/a><\/span> halting an effort to remove the Pentagon chief for his conduct in office and his handling of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">the war in Iran.\u00a0<\/a><\/span>The vote came as Republicans grapple with the fallout from <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/midterm-elections-congress-new-lawmakers-231d18d536141d9c19ac7e8cfca66eec\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">sweeping midterm losses<\/a><\/span> that some in the party have blamed on the war in Iran and the resulting surge in gas prices. But after President Donald Trump signaled strong support for Hegseth, GOP lawmakers largely stood by the secretary Tuesday, blocking the effort in a near party-line vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The vote Tuesday may only delay an impeachment push against Hegseth, with <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/democrats-house-majority-iran-war-healthcare-tariffs-0658bbfc51d2bc23331714377cddb0d2\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Democrats set to take control<\/a><\/span> of the House and Senate in January.\u00a0House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is expected to become the next speaker when Democrats take charge in January, stood firmly behind the push, saying Hegseth has \u201cabused his power\u201d and \u201cundermined America\u2019s national security.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The House on Tuesday turned aside a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, halting an effort to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88296,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88295\/revisions\/88296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}