在选民给予共和党沉重打击一周后，共和党面临着一个早期考验：是否愿意与唐纳德·特朗普总统划清界限，并重视那些导致选民流失的关切。
A week after voters handed Republicans a stinging rebuke, the GOP faces an early test of its willingness to distance itself from President Donald Trump and heed the concerns that helped drive voters away.
在过去六个月里，绝大多数众议院共和党人一再否决民主党旨在遏制特朗普对伊朗战争的立法。然而在未来几天，共和党人将有机会投票决定，那场冲突的主要设计师之一——国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯——是否需要下台。
Over the past six months, an overwhelming majority of House Republicans has repeatedly rejected Democratic legislation to curtail Trump’s Iran war. In the coming days, however, Republicans will get to vote on whether one of the chief architects of that conflict — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — needs to go.
领导弹劾赫格塞斯行动的肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·马西周一对记者表示，他怀疑有“几位”共和党人会与民主党人一道投票弹劾这位陷入困境的五角大楼负责人。
Rep. Thomas Massie — the Kentucky Republican who lost his GOP primary and is now leading the impeachment effort against Hegseth — told reporters on Monday he suspected there were “several” Republicans who would vote with Democrats to impeach the embattled Pentagon chief.
“这将取决于每个人的良知，然后他们必须为那一票负责，”马西说。“如果他们不属于‘不寻求连任党团’，两年后他们仍得为那一票负责。”
“It’s going to be everybody’s conscience, and then they’ll have to live with that vote,” Massie said. “They’re going to have to live with that vote two years from now, if they’re not part of the retirement caucus.”
“如果他们属于‘不寻求连任党团’，”马西接着说，“他们还有什么可失去的？”虽然马西自信一些共和党同僚会加入他投票罢免赫格塞斯的行列，但民主党人甚至可能不需要更多共和党票就能让决议通过。
“And if they are part of the retirement caucus,” Massie continued, “what do they have to lose?”While Massie was confident some of his Republican colleagues would join him in voting to oust Hegseth, Democrats may not even need more GOP votes for the resolution to succeed.
周一晚间，仅有399名众议院议员参与投票。其中202人为民主党人，这意味着民主党人在本周的跛脚鸭会议期间实际上可能掌握多数。
On Monday night, only 399 House lawmakers voted. Of those, 202 of them were Democrats, meaning that Democrats may effectively hold a majority this week during the lame-duck session.
周二上午，众议长迈克·约翰逊（共和党-路易斯安那州）表示有信心，共和党人可以通过投票将决议提交委员会或搁置表决，从而有效扼杀该措施。但多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯（共和党-路易斯安那州）表示担心共和党议员缺席。
On Tuesday morning, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., expressed confidence Republicans could quash the resolution by voting either to refer it to committee or to table it, which would effectively kill the measure. But Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said he was worried about GOP absences.
“缺席是个担忧。是的，每个人都应该到场履职，但你知道我们会以某种方式进行表决。我反对（弹劾），”斯卡利斯说。
“Absences are a concern. Yeah, everybody should be here doing their job, But you know we’re gonna we’re gonna have the vote one way or the other. I’m against it,” Scalise said.
尽管本周晚些时候可能会有更多议员到场，但民主党和共和党都不指望会有全员出席。正如马西所暗示的，可能会有一些共和党议员加入他和民主党人的行列，投票弹劾赫格塞思。
Although more lawmakers may show up later in the week, neither Democrats nor Republicans expect full attendance. And, as Massie suggested, there could be some GOP lawmakers who join him and Democrats to vote to impeach Hegseth.
共和党籍内布拉斯加州众议员唐·培根——一名空军老兵，将于年底离任国会——周一对记者表示，他在是否支持弹劾的问题上正在“纠结”。
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. — an Air Force veteran who is retiring from Congress at the end of the year — told reporters Monday that he was “wrestling” with a decision about backing impeachment.
培根辩称，他对赫格塞思的领导力存在异议——包括解雇将军——但他表示，对马西周一提出的弹劾条款并不完全认同。
Bacon argued that he had issues with Hegseth’s leadership — including the firing of generals — but he said he was not fully comfortable with the articles that Massie introduced Monday.
“对我们中的一些人来说，这是个灰色地带，”培根说。“我不认为他是个称职的部长。但你会为此弹劾一个人吗？这必须构成重罪或轻罪。”
“It’s a gray zone for some of us,” Bacon said. “I don’t think he’s been a good secretary. Would you impeach a guy for that? It has to be a high crime or misdemeanor.”Rep. Kevin Kiley, a Republican turned independent who lost his re-election bid last week, told MS NOW he had not yet read the articles Massie had put forward.
共和党籍众议员凯文·基利——他在上周的连任竞选中失利，已转为独立人士——告诉“MS NOW”，他尚未阅读马西提出的弹劾条款。
“I vote for every bill based on the merits, and so I’m going to have to read the text before I make any sort of decision,” he said.
“我根据每个法案的优劣进行投票，所以我必须先阅读文本，然后才能做出任何决定，”他说。其他人则态度明确。
Others were definitive.
众议员迈克·劳勒——他在纽约的连任竞选中失利——表示将投反对票，理由是针对赫格塞思的弹劾行动缺乏共和党在2024年追究时任国土安全部部长亚历杭德罗·马约尔卡斯责任时所要求的程序。
Rep. Mike Lawler — who lost a re-election bid in New York — said he would vote no, arguing that the impeachment effort against Hegseth lacked the process Republicans had demanded in 2024 when they pursued charges against then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
“与马约尔卡斯案不同，此次没有听证会、没有调查、没有给部长回答指控（无论指控是什么）的机会，也没有实际程序，”劳勒在短信中告诉“MS NOW”。“一名议员不应将此强加给整个国会。”
“Unlike with Mayorkas, there have been no hearings, no investigations, no opportunity for the Secretary to answer the charges (whatever they are), and no actual process,” Lawler told MS NOW in a text. “One member should not be foisting this upon the entire Congress.”And Warren Davidson — an Ohio Republican who did win re-election but has broken with his party to join Democrats in backing Iran war powers resolutions this year — told MS NOW he was opposed to impeaching Hegseth.
俄亥俄州共和党众议员沃伦·戴维森——他在连任中获胜，但今年曾背离本党，联合民主党人支持伊朗战争权力决议——告诉“MS NOW”，他反对弹劾赫格塞思。
“I think Secretary Hegseth has been effective in his job,” he said. “Trying to impeach him for a decision he didn’t make is blame-shifting from Congress and the president.”Meanwhile, Democrats are expected to support the resolution overwhelmingly, if not unanimously.
“我认为赫格塞斯部长在工作中很有成效，”他说。“试图弹劾他，理由是他并未做出的决定，这是国会和总统在推卸责任。”与此同时，民主党人预计将压倒性地、甚至一致支持该决议。
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries — who is poised to become speaker in the new Congress — said he was a “hard yes.”“He shredded the law and the Constitution with impunity, and there is no circumstance that justifies Pete Hegseth continuing to hold this position,” Jeffries said Monday.
众议院民主党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯——他有望在新一届国会成为议长——表示他是“毫不犹豫的赞成票”。“他肆无忌惮地践踏法律和宪法，没有任何情况能证明皮特·赫格塞斯继续担任这一职位是正当的，”杰弗里斯周一表示。
Of course, even if the House adopts the articles this week, the Senate would still have to decide whether to convict Hegseth. And there’s a chance that senators could dismiss the articles outright.
当然，即使众议院本周通过弹劾条款，参议院仍须决定是否定罪赫格塞斯。而且参议员们有可能直接驳回这些条款。
Almost three years ago, after the GOP-controlled House adopted articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, the Democratic majority in the Senate voted to dismiss the charges.
近三年前，在共和党控制的众议院通过针对马约尔卡斯的弹劾条款后，参议院的民主党多数派投票驳回了指控。但马西周一拒绝了他的弹劾决议纯粹是象征性的这一观点。
But Massie on Monday rejected the idea that his impeachment resolution was purely symbolic.
“读读这八条条款。这不是政策分歧，”马西说。“因为他违反了战争的国际规范，也违反了我们自己的战争公约，他让我们自己的士兵和水兵陷入了危险。”这八条条款指控这位五角大楼部长（除其他事项外）未经国会授权对伊朗发动战争，下令实施法外处决——与加勒比海的船只袭击有关，并参与绑架一位主权外国领导人——即委内瑞拉前总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗。
“Read the eight articles. It’s not a policy disagreement,” Massie said. “Because he’s violated the international norms of war and violated our own conventions of war, he’s put our own soldiers and sailors at risk.”The eight articles accuse the Pentagon secretary of, among other things, waging war against Iran without congressional authorization, ordering extrajudicial killings in connection with the boat strikes in the Caribbean, and participating in the kidnapping of a sovereign foreign leader — namely, former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
马西辩称，至少他的弹劾努力如果能迫使总统撤换赫格塞斯，就是成功的。
At the very least, Massie argued, his impeachment effort would be a success if it pressured the president to remove Hegseth.
总统迄今仍支持赫格塞斯，而赫格塞斯定于周二上午举行新闻发布会，为自己的履历进行辩护。
The president has thus far stood by Hegseth, and Hegseth is scheduled to hold a press conference Tuesday morning to defend his record.
在上周发布到社交媒体的一段视频中，赫格塞斯将弹劾行动斥为“政治闹剧”。“一名心怀不满的落选众议员联同他所有的民主党盟友，向我本人提交了虚假的弹劾条款——就像他们曾两次试图对特朗普总统那样，”赫格塞斯说。
In a video posted on social media last week, Hegseth dismissed the impeachment effort as “political theater.”“A disgruntled defeated congressman along with all his Democrat allies has dropped sham articles of impeachment against yours truly — just like they tried against President Trump twice,” Hegseth said.
马西此前曾在9月威胁要强行推动对赫格塞斯的弹劾表决，据马西称，这促使众议院共和党领导层取消了原定的表决安排，并让议员们提前返回选区竞选。
Massie previously threatened to force an impeachment vote against Hegseth back in September, which — in Massie’s telling — prompted House GOP leaders to cancel scheduled votes and send lawmakers home to the campaign trail early.
从那时起，选民已用选票表态，使共和党失去了对国会的控制权。选民民调数据显示，在本月大选中，约三分之一的选民将伊朗战争列为其投票决策中的“关键”因素——仅次于生活成本等其他关切。
Since then, the voters have spoken, stripping the GOP of control of Congress. Voter Poll data showed that about one-third of voters in this month’s election ranked the Iran war as “crucial” in their decision-making about their vote — ranking just behind other concerns, like the cost of living.