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“I’m a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution,” Jeffries said, adding that Democrats would discuss the proposal when they reconvene on Tuesday. Pete Hegseth has got to go,” he said. Jeffries also said Democrats would seek to end the conflict when they take control of Congress in January. “We want to do things like end this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran, which has made life way too expensive,” he said.
US House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries has backed efforts to impeach defence secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of abusing his power and engineering the war against Iran, as Democrats prepare to use their newly secured congressional majorities to increase scrutiny of US president Donald Trump’s administration. “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, which has skyrocketed prices on the American people and made the country less safe. Speaking to ABC News on Sunday, Jeffries said he was firmly behind a resolution that Republican Representative Thomas Massie plans to introduce.
Representative Robert Garcia, who is expected to chair the House Oversight Committee in the next Congress, said he was preparing inquiries into what he called the “Trump crime family”. “They are not allowed to just go around threatening existing members of the administration, to go around threatening companies, and that’s what President Trump is extremely worried about and he should be,” Blanche said, according to the Associated Press (AP). Senator-elect Adam Hamilton said he was “not as interested in impeachment as setting up guardrails”, while independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, warned: “We cannot spend all of our time investigating Trump.
The impeachment push comes as Democrats prepare investigations into the Trump administration after their midterm election victories. However, some Democrats have cautioned against allowing investigations and impeachment efforts to dominate their agenda. We’ve got to stand up for working-class families, make a real difference in their lives. ”