Republican congressman calls to impeach US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth
GOP Representative Thomas Massie has emerged as outspoken critic of war on Iran and overseas military interventions.
United States Republican Representative Thomas Massie, an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s war on Iran, has sought to force a long-shot vote in the US Congress on the impeachment of Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth.
Massie read articles of impeachment against Hegseth in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday, accusing the Pentagon chief of waging war without congressional approval, carrying out extrajudicial killings, and paying little mind to civilian casualties in military operations.
“Secretary Hegseth abused the powers entrusted to him as secretary of defence by subordinating the constitutional limits on the use of military force and the laws governing the conduct of hostilities to his own policy objectives,” Massie said, adding that Hegseth has shown a “profound disregard” for the impact of US military operations on civilians.
The resolution for Hegseth’s impeachment could receive a vote in the coming days, but faces long odds of success in the Republican-majority US House of Representatives.