Outgoing RINO Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is escalating his impeachment effort against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, announcing that he intends to demand separate votes on all eight articles of impeachment if House Republicans fail to derail his resolution.
“I’ve heard from several members they agree with some of the Articles of Impeachment but not all of them. If the motion to kill my resolution by referring it to committee fails, and we proceed to the Articles themselves, I’ll request a vote on each of the Articles separately,” Massie posted on X.
I’ve heard from several members they agree with some of the Articles of Impeachment but not all of them.
If the motion to kill my resolution by referring it to committee fails, and we proceed to the Articles themselves, I’ll request a vote on each of the Articles separately.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 10, 2026
He introduced the eight articles Monday, focusing on the Iran operation, Venezuela actions, Yemen, and related claims under the 1973 War Powers Resolution. The first vote is expected on a motion to refer the resolution to committee, standard language that effectively kills it.
Yet when it came to Lloyd Austin, the defense secretary who oversaw the disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal that saw 13 American service members killed in an ISIS-K suicide bombing at Kabul’s Abbey Gate, Massie never introduced or cosponsored articles of impeachment against him, even as fellow Republicans moved to hold Austin accountable.
The congressional record confirms that Rep. Thomas Massie neither introduced nor cosponsored two impeachment resolutions against former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin:
- H.Res.666 (118th Congress), focused on Austin’s dereliction during the Afghanistan withdrawal, was introduced by Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) and cosponsored by Reps. Bill Posey, Mary Miller, and Anna Paulina Luna. Massie is nowhere on the resolution.
- H.Res.951 (118th Congress), introduced by Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) over the Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace, also listed no Massie involvement as sponsor or cosponsor.
Austin’s record, which Massie declined to pursue through formal impeachment, also include:
- Failure to promptly notify the White House and Congress of his January 2024 hospitalization for prostate cancer complications, with a multi-day delay while he was in the ICU—prompting an Inspector General review and calls for resignation, including from a Democrat.
- Significant military recruitment shortfalls in FY2022-2023 under his tenure.
- Heavy emphasis on DEI initiatives across the force.
- The August 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate that resulted in more than 8,400 troops being discharged for refusal to comply.
These are not policy disagreements. They are documented failures of leadership, readiness, and basic communication that Massie never sought to address through the same privileged-resolution mechanism he is now deploying against Hegseth.
There have been 7 Sec of Defense/War Since Thomas Massie entered Congress:
Leon Panetta
Chuck Hagel
Ashton Carter
James Mattis
Mark Esper
Lloyd Austin
Pete HegsethHe’s only introduced Articles impeachment for one of them: Pete Hegseth
Under Obama & Biden, their Sec of Defense conducted questionable military actions in the following countries:
Iraq & Syria 2014
Syria 2014–2017, 2021–2024
Pakistan, Somalia, & Yemen 2012–2017
Libya 2016
Yemen 2024–2025
Afghanistan 2022And yet, Thomas Massie never introduced Articles of Impeachment for any of those military actions. Only against Pete Hegseth.
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— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) November 10, 2026
Hegseth, by contrast, has repeatedly framed his tenure as a direct cleanup of the Austin-Biden era. In a defiant video response covered by The Gateway Pundit earlier this month, Hegseth called Massie a “disgruntled, defeated congressman,” likened the effort to the prior “sham” impeachments of President Trump, and stated that Biden and Austin “left our country and this department in a terrible place.” He noted the end of “the weird and the woke” and the return of “peace through strength.”
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