据《Puck》周日报道，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯正在“谋求”参议员马莎·布莱克本（共和党-田纳西州）任命他接任其参议员席位，以便避免可能面临的弹劾。
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “angling” for Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) to appoint him to her Senate seat so he can avoid potential impeachment, Puck reported Sunday.
布莱克本有望赢得田纳西州州长选举，这将腾出她的参议员席位，任期至2031年1月结束。
Blackburn is likely to win her race for Tennessee governor, opening up the post for the rest of her term, which ends in January 2031.
赫格塞斯及其家人于2022年在田纳西州定居。据《Puck》报道，众议员蒂姆·伯切特也对该参议员席位感兴趣。
Hegseth and his family set up residence in Tennessee in 2022. Rep. Tim Burchett is also interested in the Senate seat, according to Puck.
预计众议院将在大选后就共和党众议员托马斯·马西（肯塔基州）提交的针对赫格塞斯的弹劾决议进行表决——预计投票结果将非常接近。《Semafor》本月初报道称，民主党人一直在“协调一致，呼吁国防部长下台或辞职”。
The House is expected to vote on an impeachment resolution filed by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.) against Hegseth after the election ― and it is expected to be close. Democrats have been “aligning to call for the defense secretary’s ouster or resignation,” Semafor reported earlier this month.
进步倡导组织“MoveOn”告诉《赫芬顿邮报》，弹劾部长的势头可能比弹劾唐纳德·特朗普总统更大。
The progressive advocacy group MoveOn told HuffPost there might more momentum toward impeaching the secretary than President Donald Trump.
“追究责任有很多方式。我认为弹劾是其中之一，而且我认为就我们MoveOn成员的角度来看，我们的成员不想把这些选项中的任何一个排除在外，”发言人乔尔·佩恩说。
“There’s a lot of ways to hold folks accountable. I think impeachment is one of them, and I think just from the perspective of our members at MoveOn, our members don’t want to take any of those options off the table,” spokesperson Joel Payne said.
马西的决议指控赫格塞斯在未经国会批准且不存在迫在眉睫威胁的情况下对伊朗发动战争，以及无视旨在最大限度减少平民伤亡的法律。他还指控这位内阁成员对涉嫌贩毒船只使用未经授权的致命武力。
Massie’s resolution charges Hegseth with waging war against Iran without congressional approval and an imminent threat, and ignoring laws to minimize civilian casualties. He also accuses the Cabinet member of using unauthorized lethal force on suspected drug-smuggling boats.
一些共和党人希望特朗普能在任何弹劾程序启动前解职赫格塞斯，一些参议员“预见到了一条路径”，即部长辞职，据《Puck》的利·安·考德威尔报道。五角大楼对该报道进行了强力反驳。
Some Republicans are hoping Trump could dismiss Hegseth before any impeachment process commences, and some senators “foresee a pathway” for the secretary to step down, Puck’s Leigh Ann Caldwell reported. The Pentagon pushed back hard at the report.
“这些猜测不过是华盛顿圈子里匿名消息来源散布的流言蜚语，”五角大楼新闻秘书金斯利·威尔逊周一在致《赫芬顿邮报》的书面回复中写道。“向你们提供这些说法的人要么是严重不实消息，要么是故意误导你们以兜售假新闻。在特朗普总统的领导下，赫格塞斯部长的唯一重心是领导战争部，并落实总统的‘美国优先’议程。”
“These speculations are nothing more than beltway gossip by anonymous sources,” Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson wrote to HuffPost on Monday. “Whoever is feeding you these claims are either badly misinformed or deliberately leading you astray to peddle Fake News. Under President Trump’s leadership, Secretary Hegseth’s singular priority is leading the War Department and delivering on the President’s America First agenda.”