Pete Hegseth is holding a rare conference on Tuesday, which a cabinet official facing an impeachment vote would not do if they were certain they would not be impeached.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) held a press conference of his own on Monday, where he explained the eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth.
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After explaining the articles of impeachment, Massie painted a grim picture for Hegseth:
The articles of impeachment, once they leave the House They survive into the next Senate. Every HR bill in here will die and you'll have to reintroduce it, but not these articles of impeachment. If the Senate doesn't deal with this, then, before the end of this Senate, they're turning it over to a Democrat Senate, which can then have the trials and deal with it.
So my hope is that this will make it to the Senate. I don't know if we have enough votes. I have no idea. I haven't spent time on the phone calling people. I'm doing this because it's the right thing to do. Everybody gets to take this vote. I suspect there, there may be members of Congress who want to put a little daylight between themselves and this war, or themselves and this administration at... who survived their election. Not just what I call the retirement caucus, whose membership swelled on November 3rd. I'm talking about the people who are coming back next Congress. And then in two years, they're gonna have to answer for a war that's gotten even worse.
Massie seemed to be encouraging Hegseth to leave now, because he laid out what Democrats will do if the impeachment is left in their hands.
