Eleven Democrats inexplicably failed to show up last night to vote to advance Pete Hegseth’s impeachment, and are now under fire by members of their own party.
Last night, a vote was held by Republicans to block Hegseth’s impeachment from advancing to the House for an official vote. Their motion to block ended up succeeding, with a vote of 211-204.
That is a difference of seven votes.
Here’s the catch
Eleven Democrats did not show up to cast their vote.
Apparently they were ‘stuck in traffic’, which is almost as bad of an excuse as ‘the dog ate my homework.”
Excuses aside
It is unfathomable that the week after we, the voters, gave Democrats a mandate to hold the Trump administration accountable, 11 of them decide to skip out on the first vote since the election to impeach Hegseth.
And I don’t want to hear them claim that they are focused on “affordability” instead of “political retribution”, because if you think about it:
