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 still want another person as the speaker, this guy is weak
Still want to get rid of this asshole. You can do one right thing and still be a corporate shill.
It, quite literally, is the least he can do.
Based on that quote I’m worried he’s just playing along with Trump’s Hegseth as patsy plan.
I don’t think Massie would be pushing this if he didn’t know it would pass. There are some 40-ish Republicans who were either pushed out of their Primaries by Trump (like Massie) or who lost their elections in safe districts largely because of the war. Every Democrat should vote for it, and Massie is voting for it, so I think he needs only 3 Republicans to back it. He’ll get at least 20.
After the resolution passes, though, the House’s role is done. Then you need to watch what the Senate does. You need 20 of the current 53 Republican Senators to go along. But, how many of them are lame ducks also because of the war, and how many others are pissed that they are going to be in the minority next year because of it?
“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.
I’m a “hard yes” to choose someone other than Hakeem Jeffries to be Speaker of the House.
Fake promises from a fake person.
Good. Then you can vote for it when the speaker brings it to the floor.
“I will do my duty to my office.”
How low is the bar when the possible speaker of the house’s selling point is he might grow a fixing spine?
Sold us out once and he will do it again.
Okay Jeffries, just pick Hegseth up on your way out the door.
I want A+ polling on Democratic voters and whether they want a change of leadership from Jeffries and Schumer.
Based on recent petitions for their removal, I’m betting that’s also a hard yes.
It may be, but everybody can get behind impeaching Hegseth, even Republicans. Hard to fault him on this one.
He can agree all he wants, he needs to go. He’s already proven himself to be absolutely useless by signaling he’ll do fuck all to aliviate people’s concerns.
