2026-09-15T18:15:01.674Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
众议院民主党人此前私下担忧一场充满政治色彩但仅具象征意义的弹劾总统唐纳德·特朗普的投票——这场投票由本党一名议员发起。
然而随后发生了一件出人意料的事。
就在该投票数小时前，共和党众议员托马斯·马西意外推动弹劾国防部长皮特·赫格斯，这一惊人的党内内讧行为，进一步加深了这位“叛逆”议员与特朗普以及共和党领导层之间的裂痕。
与民主党推动弹劾特朗普一样，马西弹劾赫格斯的提案注定会失败。但这两次投票都给各自政党的领导层带来了麻烦，两党都不想在中期选举前的最后几个立法日程里，处理会暴露党内分歧的弹劾闹剧。
马西的弹劾动议附带数十页法律论证，似乎已筹备数周。但他周二对记者表示，自己并未告知党内领导层他将提交针对赫格斯的弹劾条款。
共和党人不愿看到马西成为美国历史上首位试图弹劾本党内阁成员的国会议员——尤其是在今年春季他在初选中败给特朗普支持的对手之后。据多名消息人士透露，共和党人对他未事先告知领导层就采取这一行动感到愤怒。
“我没给任何人提前通气，”马西周二下午对记者说，“当他们发现我在推动针对爱泼斯坦的罢免请愿时，他们取消了两周的国会日程。我觉得如果他们知道我要做这件事，可能会取消更多天数的会议。”
与此同时，民主党人对本党同事——同样在5月初选失利的众议员阿尔·格林——感到恼火，因为格林在共和党本应因关税、油价和人工智能问题承受压力之际，强行推动弹劾投票。不过，当马西在众议院 floor 宣布打算强行发起弹劾赫格斯的投票后，民主党人的情绪有所好转。
“就在你以为阿尔·格林搞砸了我们的时候，马西转头就把难题甩给了共和党人，”一名民主党助手打趣道。
在为期七周的休会即将到来之际，众议院如今面临着两起令人头疼的弹劾问题——两名均不会在新一届国会任职的议员，且都不受本党领导层管控。
众议院定于周二下午就搁置（或否决）特朗普弹劾决议案进行投票。目前尚不清楚何时会就赫格斯弹劾议案进行投票，但可能会在本周举行。党领导层必须在未来几天内安排投票——除非他们决定提前让国会休会。
在这份长达34页的决议中，马西辩称赫格斯在领导美国对伊朗战争期间多次滥用职权，包括执行非法命令以及在未获国会授权的情况下继续部署军队。
他认为，赫格斯“若继续留任，将继续对宪法构成威胁，其行为严重违背其职责和法治原则”。马西在众议院 floor 上朗读这份决议案花费了数小时。
司法部长托德·布兰奇周二为赫格斯辩护，称他“遵纪守法”。
“赫格斯部长工作表现出色，战争部长不会擅自行动。因此，他会遵守法律。司法部在这方面发挥着作用，我们也在积极确保法律得到遵守，”布兰奇在白宫玫瑰园举行的新闻发布会上说道。
弹劾决议案涉及的不止伊朗问题。马西还指责赫格斯所谓在委内瑞拉“绑架主权外国领导人”，即针对时任总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗的抓捕行动。他指控五角大楼“以禁毒执法为幌子绑架该国领导人，实则旨在夺取美国对委内瑞拉石油储备的控制权”。
与此同时，民主党人的弹劾决议案对本党而言政治风险更低。尽管如此，这仍要求作为少数党的民主党做出棘手的权衡。
民主党在特朗普第一任期内掌控众议院多数席位时，已两次弹劾特朗普。但众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯及其领导层一直谨慎地将政治重心放在生活成本上涨问题上。民主党若想重新夺回多数席位，需要拿下特朗普此前赢下的摇摆选区，因此他们不愿用弹劾言论疏远独立选民和共和党选民。
但民主党人也清楚，他们的基础选民极度厌恶特朗普，许多选民都希望第三次弹劾他。
杰弗里斯及其领导层周一晚间在联合声明中表示，他们将在与格林弹劾动议相关的程序性投票中投“弃权”——而非承诺投赞成或反对票。
“弹劾是一项神圣的宪法工具，旨在追究腐败行政官员滥用权力、违法和违背公众信任的责任，”他们称，弹劾程序需要“全面的调查”工作来呈现证据并说服美国民众，而他们认为格林并未做到这一点。
美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）的劳伦·福克斯和埃利斯·金对本文亦有贡献。
Thomas Massie pushes surprise impeachment vote of Pete Hegseth
2026-09-15T18:15:01.674Z / CNN
House Democrats were privately dreading a politically charged — but purely symbolic — vote on impeaching President Donald Trump triggered by one of their own members.
Then came something unexpected.
Just hours before that vote, GOP Rep. Thomas Massie surprised his colleagues with a push to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a stunning act of intraparty warfare that deepens the rogue congressman’s rift with Trump and GOP leaders.
Massie’s push to impeach Hegseth, like the Democratic push to impeach Trump, is doomed to fail. Yet both votes have created headaches for their respective party leaders, neither of whom want to spend the final days in session before the midterms dealing with impeachment drama that exposes intraparty rifts.
Massie’s impeachment push — with dozens of pages of legal arguments — appeared to have been in the works for weeks. But he told reporters Tuesday that he did not inform party leaders of his plans to introduce the articles of impeachment against Hegseth.
Republicans do not want to watch Massie make history as the first member of Congress to try to impeach a Cabinet member of the same party — particularly after he lost his primary to a Trump-backed opponent this spring. And they’re furious he made the move without informing leadership, according to multiple sources.
“I didn’t give anybody heads-up,” Massie told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “When they found out I was doing the Epstein discharge petition, they canceled two weeks of Congress, and I think if they found out I was going to do this, they might have canceled even more days.”
Democrats, meanwhile, are irritated that their colleague — Rep. Al Green, who also lost his primary in May — is forcing the impeachment vote at a time when Republicans would otherwise be facing pressure on tariffs, gas prices and AI. Their moods lifted, however, once Massie took to the floor to announce his intention to force a vote to impeach Hegseth.
“Just when you think Al Green screws us, Massie turns around and gives it right back to the Rs,” one Democratic aide quipped.
Just ahead of a seven-week recess, the House is now confronting dueling impeachment headaches — both from members who won’t be in Congress next year and who have proved uncontrollable by party leaders.
The House is set to hold a vote to table — or block — the Trump impeachment resolution Tuesday afternoon. It’s not clear when a vote will be held on the Hegseth impeachment measure, but it could take place this week. Party leaders must hold a vote within the coming days — unless they decide to send the House home early.
In his 34-page resolution, Massie argues that Hegseth has repeatedly abused the powers of his office in leading the US war with Iran, including carrying out unlawful orders and continuing to keep troops deployed without authorization from Congress.
Hegseth, he argued, “has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties and the rule of law.” Massie spent multiple hours reading aloud his resolution on the House floor.
Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday defended Hegseth in light of the impeachment push, arguing that he “follows the law.”
“Secretary Hegseth is doing a phenomenal job, and the secretary of war doesn’t just go off and do things. So, he follows the law. And so the DOJ plays a role in that, and we play an active role in making sure the laws are complied with,” Blanche said while holding a press briefing in the White House Rose Garden.
The impeachment resolution touched on more than Iran. Massie also took aim at Hegseth for what he called the “kidnapping of a sovereign foreign leader” in Venezuela, referring to the capture of then-President Nicolás Maduro. He accused the Pentagon of kidnapping the nation’s leader “under the guise of narcotics law enforcement, though in actuality intended to assert U.S. control over Venezuela’s oil reserves.”
Democrats’ resolution, meanwhile, is less politically explosive for the party. Still, it requires a tricky calculation for the party in the minority.
The party has impeached Trump twice already when they held the majority in his first term. But House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership team have been careful to keep their political focus on the rising cost of living. Democrats’ path back into the majority will need to come through battleground seats that Trump has previously won — and they do not want to alienate independent and GOP voters with impeachment rhetoric.
But Democrats also know their base detests Trump, with many voters eager to see him impeached a third time.
Jeffries and his leadership team said in a joint statement Monday night that they will vote “present” — rather than committing to an up or down vote — on a procedural measure related to Green’s impeachment push.
“Impeachment is a sacred constitutional vehicle designed to hold a corrupt executive accountable for abuse of power, breaking the law and violating the public trust,” they said, noting the process requires “comprehensive investigative” work to lay out the evidence and convince the American public, which they said Green has not done.
CNN’s Lauren Fox and Ellis Kim contributed to this report.
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