{"id":81110,"date":"2026-11-09T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/republican-thomas-massie-moves-to-force-vote-to-impeach-pete-hegseth\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:54:55","slug":"republican-thomas-massie-moves-to-force-vote-to-impeach-pete-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/republican-thomas-massie-moves-to-force-vote-to-impeach-pete-hegseth\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Thomas Massie moves to force vote to impeach Pete Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US representative accuses defense secretary of illegally waging war without congressional authorization and abusing his powers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/09\/donald-trump-stephen-miller-immigration-midterms-iran-qatar-economy-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Republican lawmaker has moved to force a vote to impeach Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, setting the stage for a showdown over one of the most divisive figures inside Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Massie, of Kentucky, introduced eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth, accusing him of illegally waging war without congressional authorization and abusing his powers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/09\/pete-hegseth-impeachment-thomas-massie\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US representative accuses defense secretary of illegally waging war without congressional authorization and abusing his powers US politics live \u2013 latest updates A Republican lawmaker has moved to force a vote to impeach Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, setting the stage for a showdown over one of the most divisive figures inside Donald Trump\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Republican Thomas Massie moves to force vote to impeach Pete Hegseth\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/republican-thomas-massie-moves-to-force-vote-to-impeach-pete-hegseth\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican Thomas Massie moves to force vote to impeach Pete Hegseth\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}