El-Sayed Urges Hegseth to Resign After 211-204 House Vote Blocks Impeachment

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Nov 12

Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s senator-elect, used a CNN interview to tell Pete Hegseth to quit, calling him unfit for the job and blaming him for mishandling the war in Iran.
The demand came hours after House Republicans sidetracked an impeachment push by voting 211-204 to send Rep. Thomas Massie’s resolution to the Judiciary Committee instead of holding a full House vote.
El-Sayed also rebuked the 11 absent Democrats whose no-shows helped prevent that vote, saying lawmakers should “show up” and linking the Iran war to higher gas and grocery prices raised by voters.
Hegseth rejected the effort at a Pentagon news conference, calling it a political spectacle and defending operations in Iran, Venezuela and Yemen as lawful, while Trump praised his record online.
The clash leaves Democrats with little immediate leverage: El-Sayed will not vote on impeachment in the House, and removal would still require a two-thirds Senate vote.