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
Oh is this what you and Jared secretly agreed on before Election Day?
Scapegoat time.
Still want to get rid of this asshole. You can do one right thing and still be a corporate shill.
The scapegoat has been chosen
Fake promises from a fake person.
Jeffries and Schumer have to go. They’ll talk up a big game but in reality they’ll say anything to keep their post. It’s all just platitudinal and vacuous.
They can’t run interference and get that the extra paycheck from AIPAC if they step down.
Jeffries is talking impeachment but voters want Nuremberg.
We want Nuremburg for Jeffries, Schumer, Trump, Hegseth, Kushner,and Biden too while we’re at it. Would save time to make it a group trial. And Jeffries has already said he’s a hard no for impeaching trump. He cant walk corruption like that back, he just needs to resign or get tossed. Either one is fine.
It’s the first step We have to start somewhere…
It, quite literally, is the least he can do.
At least he’s aware where the wind is blowing, but somehow he mistook it as a slight breeze
Obama had complete control of both Houses and barely managed to get the ACA passed.
Jeffries has less power than Obama did.
Joe Liberman has escaped from his grave.
Musk could pay to primary every incumbent GOP. Get young candidates who aren’t tied to voting for Trump. Push the exact same MAGA buttons with new faces.
“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.
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.
I’m aware of his role. Impeachment is a useless show without support in the Senate to convict. The stuff we know that’s already public knowledge is enough to boot him, but actually removing him requires republican support.
Nah, this is smart. Convict the provable war criminal who doesn’t have branded merch for the cult, if you can’t get him you can’t get Trump.
I just don’t trust Jeffries to take Step 2.
they can’t do anything to Hegseth without
60%67% of the Senate. Maybe this will pressure trump to appoint someone else, but that might actually be worse for everyone if he does it in the next few weeks.67%, I think. To convict in the senate in an impeachment trial you need a two-thirds majority.
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Not sure about other impeachments beyond the president.
Yeah that one was a typo. I looked it up and couldn’t find anything specific beyond the constitution which a law journal confirmed covers all impeachments. Simple majority to impeach, 2/3rds to convict. I would be extremely surprised if anyone crossed the aisle to convict, but Texas also turned blue last week, so who knows!
Based on that quote I’m worried he’s just playing along with Trump’s Hegseth as patsy plan.
I would bet that this is exactly what he and Kushner discussed.
“If Dems win, we’ll throw you Hegseth if you promise not to come after everyone else”
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 choose someone other than Hakeem Jeffries to be Speaker of the House.
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.
Ohhh, so AIPAC approves of impeaching Hegseth. Got it.
Having a drunk guy running their military is not working out great.
Okay Jeffries, just pick Hegseth up on your way out the door.
