House Blocks Hegseth Impeachment Effort as Democrats Miss Key Vote

According to The Hill, House Republicans came together Tuesday to shelve a measure to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a result the outlet said came largely from "almost a dozen Democrats" failing to show up for an early evening vote. The account appeared in a newsletter by Joshua Feldstein, The Hill's Morning Report, which also covered other items not part of this report.

The Guardian reported that eleven Democrats missed the key procedural vote on the impeachment effort, which failed by just seven votes. In a report by Ariana Baio, the paper said Democratic lawmakers expressed outrage at nearly a dozen of their colleagues for missing the Tuesday evening vote, a absence that the paper said was "allowing Republicans to squash the effort." The paper's full account is available in The Guardian's report on the vote.

The two accounts differ in their figures and framing. The Hill described "almost a dozen" Democrats as absent, while The Guardian gave the number as eleven. The Hill described the House as having shelved the measure, whereas The Guardian described a procedural vote that the effort lost by seven votes. The sources do not resolve this difference in framing.

Neither source reports a response from Hegseth or from House leadership to the vote. The available summaries also do not give any further tally or additional detail about how the Democratic absences were distributed among members.

Sources: The Hill: 11 Democrats miss Hegseth impeachment vote; The Guardian: Democrats lambast absent peers allowing Republicans to squash Hegseth impeachment attempt.