华盛顿讯——由共和党领导的众议院周二以微弱差额否决了一项弹劾国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯的提议，原因是他执行对伊朗的战争以及在也门、委内瑞拉和加勒比地区的其他军事敌对行动的方式。投票结果为211票对204票，将弹劾决议送交委员会，实际上终结了这项努力。即使是赫格塞斯的直言不讳的共和党批评者也表示，他们认为国防部长的行为并未达到“重罪和轻罪”的程度。
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House on Tuesday narrowly rejected a push to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over how he has carried out the war in Iran and other military hostilities in Yemen, Venezuela and the Caribbean. The vote was 211-204 to send the impeachment resolution to committee, effectively killing the effort. Even vocal GOP critics of Hegseth said they didn’t think that the secretary’s action rose to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
这项弹劾决议由肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·马西起草，他是赫格塞斯和总统唐纳德·特朗普的激烈批评者；两人今年早些时候帮助将马西在共和党初选中击败。由于马西将该动议列为“特权动议”，共和党领导层被迫在两个立法日内进行投票。赫格塞斯“违反了战争规范，这对我们的国家不利，有损国家荣誉，也会使我们的士兵在未来的冲突中处于危险之中，”马西说，他是唯一支持推进弹劾投票的共和党人。
The impeachment resolution was authored by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a fierce critic of Hegseth and President Donald Trump; both helped oust Massie in his GOP primary race earlier this year. Because Massie had filed the motion as “privileged,” Republican leaders were forced to call a vote within two legislative days. Hegseth “has violated the norms of war, and it’s to the disadvantage and the dishonor of our country, and to the danger of our soldiers in future conflicts,” said Massie, the lone Republican who supported moving to an impeachment vote.
“总得有人站出来说，我们是否要遵守现行法律？我们是否要遵守宪法？”他继续说道。“而做到这一点的最佳方式，就是对皮特·赫格塞斯进行弹劾。”众议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人哈基姆·杰弗里斯预计将于1月当选议长，他表示，民主党明年接管国会后将“把皮特·赫格塞斯赶出城镇”。但赫格塞斯目前暂时安全，特朗普表示他支持自己的国防部长，后者不仅与民主党人发生冲突，还与参议院和众议院的一小部分共和党人发生冲突。
“Somebody’s got to put their foot down and say, are we going to follow the laws that are on the books? Are we going to follow the Constitution?” he continued. “And the best way to do that is to have an impeachment against Pete Hegseth.”House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who is on track to be elected speaker in January, has said Democrats will “run Pete Hegseth out of town” when they take over Congress next year. But Hegseth is safe for now, and Trump said he is standing by his Defense secretary, who has clashed with not only Democrats but a handful of Republicans in the Senate and the House.
投票发生在华盛顿一个戏剧性的一天结束时，赫格塞斯当天早上在五角大楼召开新闻发布会，将弹劾斥为“政治闹剧”。“这是一场闹剧，是一场把戏，人人皆知，”赫格塞斯说。
The vote came at the end of a dramatic day in Washington that Hegseth kicked off with a morning news conference at the Pentagon, where he slammed the impeachment as a “political spectacle.”“It’s a farce, and it’s a stunt and everybody knows it,” Hegseth said.
他主张，Massie引用的所有军事行动都是“合法”的，并称弹劾是对执行这些任务的男女军人的直接冒犯。赫格塞思还将周二的弹劾投票与特朗普第一任期内由民主党主导的两次弹劾投票相提并论——第一次是关于与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基的电话，第二次是关于1月6日国会山袭击事件。“如果与特朗普总统站在一起让我与这些人为伍，我每天都愿意与这些人为伍，”赫格塞思说。
He argued that all of the military actions cited by Massie were “lawful” and called the impeachment a direct affront to the men and women carrying out those missions. Hegseth also equated Tuesday’s impeachment vote to the two Democratic-led votes to impeach Trump during his first term — first over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the second over the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol. “If standing with President Trump puts me in that company, I’ll take that company every day of the week,” Hegseth said.
赫格塞思亮相后不久，特朗普在Truth Social上发帖支持国防部长，称他“在对抗一个不满、愤怒、失败的前国会议员托马斯·马西（Thomas Massie）的防守中，得了‘A’加、加、加，马西是个彻头彻尾的失败者！”赫格塞思是前福克斯新闻主持人，在华盛顿是个两极分化的人物，2025年经历了一场艰难的参议院确认战后幸存下来。
Shortly after Hegseth’s appearance, Trump posted his support for the Defense secretary on Truth Social, saying he “gets an “A” PLUS, PLUS, PLUS for his defense against a disgruntled, angry, defeated, former Congressman, Thomas Massie, a TOTAL LOSER!”Hegseth, a former Fox News host, has been a polarizing figure in Washington, surviving a bruising Senate confirmation battle in 2025.
然而，一位共和党批评者、即将卸任的众议员唐·贝肯（Don Bacon，内布拉斯加州，共和党）表示，他与赫格塞思有过不少分歧，但不喜欢弹劾决议由马西主导。“我本人并不认同弹劾本身，”空军退伍军人贝肯在投票前对记者说。“但如果加入一条关于解雇80名将军的条款，如果我们谈论解雇80名将军且不花拨款的钱，我对这件事的看法可能会有所不同。”
However, one GOP critic, outgoing Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said he has had plenty of disagreements with Hegseth but didn’t like how the impeachment resolution was led by Massie. “I don’t really align with the impeachment itself,” Bacon, an Air Force veteran, told reporters before the vote. “But I surely, if you would have put in [a line] about firing 80 generals, if we talk about firing 80 generals and not spending appropriated money, I’d feel a little differently about it.”
另一位今年离开国会的共和党人、加利福尼亚州众议员达雷尔·伊萨（Darrell Issa）暗示，马西推动弹劾是因为他对初选失利感到不满。他还补充说，即使弹劾案在众议院通过，参议院也没有67名参议员会在参议院审判中投票定罪。“它会在参议院夭折；就这么简单。众议院发生什么事真的不重要。国防部长没有犯下重罪或轻罪，”伊萨说。
Another Republican leaving Congress this year, Rep. Darrell Issa of California, suggested Massie was pushing impeachment because he was upset about his primary defeat. And he added that even if it did pass the House, there are not 67 senators who would vote to convict him in a Senate trial. “It’s going to die in the Senate; it’s just that simple. It doesn’t really matter what happens in the House. The Secretary has committed no high crimes or misdemeanors,” Issa said.
“参议院常常需要防范众议院的轻率行为。”马西的决议案包含针对赫格塞斯的八项弹劾条款。根据马西的说法，第一项条款指控赫格塞斯“在没有宣战、法定授权、对美国的攻击或迫在眉睫的威胁的情况下发动对伊朗的战争”。另外三项与伊朗相关的条款指责赫格塞斯在众议院和参议院都指示撤出美军后继续战争；在战争权力决议规定的60天终止期届满后继续敌对行动；以及无视旨在尽量减少平民伤亡的法律。
“The Senate often has to protect against the rashness of the House.”Massie’s resolution included eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth. The first article charges Hegseth “with waging the Iran war despite no declaration of war, statutory authorization, attack on the United States, or imminent threat,” according to Massie. Three others that are related to Iran fault Hegseth with continuing the war after both the House and Senate directed the removal of U.S. forces; continuing hostilities after the War Powers Resolution’s 60-day termination period had expired; and ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties.
另一项条款指控赫格塞斯指示在加勒比海和东太平洋对涉嫌毒品贩运者进行“司法外杀害”，对幸存者实施二次打击，并监督命令美军人员不得营救遇难人员。其余条款称，赫格塞斯非法夺取并推翻委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗，以“确立美国对委内瑞拉石油储备的控制”；利用国防部报复并降职亚利桑那州民主党参议员马克·凯利，因为凯利告诉现役军人不应服从非法命令；并在也门发动非法战争。
Another article charges Hegseth with directing “extrajudicial killings” of suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean, secondary strikes on survivors, and overseeing orders to U.S. personnel not to rescue shipwrecked persons. The others say Hegseth illegally seized and deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro “to assert U.S. control over Venezuela’s oil reserves”; used the Defense Department to retaliate against and demote Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., for telling service members they should not follow unlawful orders; and carried out an unlawful war in Yemen.
周二早上，赫格塞斯为自己的记录辩护，并表示每一次行动都是合法的。“我们摧毁了恐怖政权的能力。我们击沉了向我们社区运送毒品的船只。我们给一个毒枭独裁者戴上了手铐。这些都不是重罪。这就是工作，而且做得很好，”他说。
Hegseth on Tuesday morning defended his record and said every operation was a lawful one. “We destroyed terror regimes’ capabilities. We sank the boats carrying poison into our communities. We put a narco dictator in handcuffs. These are not high crimes. This is the job, and it’s the job well done,” he said.