GOP Rep Massie Files 8 Articles of Impeachment Against Hegseth

Thomas Massie stood on the House floor and read eight articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, all tied to alleged War Powers Resolution violations involving Iran. That’s not a typo. While the country is trying to figure out what our posture in the Middle East even is, Congress is already reaching for the impeachment lever again. Impeachment is becoming a reflex, and Americans can feel the cheapness creeping in.

Massie’s argument deserves to be heard on the merits, because war powers are not a trivia question. If an administration is stretching legal authority, Congress has every right to push back. But filing eight articles right out of the gate reads less like careful oversight and more like a press release with floor time. If this is about Iran, show the paper trail. Show the orders, the timelines, the actual decision points that supposedly crossed the line. Don’t ask the public to connect dots you won’t put on the page.

And there’s another problem: Pete Hegseth is not the commander in chief. If the complaint is that the executive branch is sidestepping Congress on a potential Iran conflict, then focus your fire where it belongs. Either this is serious enough to build a real record and force a real vote, or it’s just another round of Washington people trying to prove they’re the purest person in the room. Congress can’t keep treating war and impeachment like content.

Republicans have spent years watching Democrats turn impeachment into a hobby, and we shouldn’t copy the worst habits of our opponents. Oversight is good. Guardrails on war are good. But the bar has to be higher than “we’re mad and we have a microphone.” If Massie has the facts, put them front and center and make the case like you mean it. If he doesn’t, then all he’s doing is helping normalize the idea that impeachment is just another way to grab a headline.