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ORIGINAL HEADLINE: Hegseth impeachment effort torpedoed in House PRIMARY REPORTING SOURCE: cnbc.com FEED BRIEF: GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, who has clashed with President Donald Trump, kicked off the Hegseth impeachment fight days after a blue wave midterm election. VERIFIED SOURCE ARTICLE TEXT: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on November 10, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia. U.S. The House of Representatives effectively torpedoed an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with a procedural vote on Tuesday evening. The House, by a 211-204 margin, approved a measure that will refer the impeachment resolution to a committee. That will leave little, if any, time for the committee and full House to act on it before Democrats take over the chamber and the Senate with a new majority in early January. House Republican leadership had sought to kill the effort at impeachment, which was initiated Monday by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. The vote came a week after the midterm elections, where Democrats trounced Republicans in the first congressional election since the Iran war broke out in February. Hegseth had faced eight articles
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