Top Dem Unleashes on House Members Who Botched Hegseth Vote

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A Democratic rep says Pete Hegseth is inflicting “generational damage” on the armed forces. Yet his own party failed to advance his impeachment this week.

A House Democrat is calling out his colleagues for failing to show up to vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth.

Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, says Hegseth should be brought to trial and that the Democrats who missed a critical vote on Tuesday let the entire caucus down—something they are being scolded for behind the scenes.

“You need to show up. You can’t let this happen again. I mean that there is nothing else to say, right?” Crow tells the Daily Beast Podcast, referring to the group who missed the vote. “I think they’ve received that message, right? That people are pretty upset in the caucus. They should be, and people are expressing that to them.”

The House narrowly voted to kill an impeachment resolution Tuesday after 11 Democrats bizarrely missed the vote, with many blaming traffic after leaving a private event a mile and a half down the road.

However, with Democrats set to take both chambers in less than two months, Hegseth is not out of the woods—as long as Democrats do their jobs.

Hegseth should face consequences for his actions even if Donald Trump fires him because his tenure has been marked by “generational damage,” Crow said.

“I’m going to continue my oversight and accountability of Pete Hegseth, and I’m firmly of the belief that unless Donald Trump fires him, and maybe even if Donald Trump fires him, we still go forward with an impeachment and try to take him to trial,” Crow said. “We probably should.”

“Every single day that Pete Hegseth is sitting atop his perch in the Pentagon is a day where our military culture changes while he does generational damage to our most venerated institution and our service members,” Crow told host Joanna Coles, the same day Hegseth and those he was with were reprimanded by an Army sentinel for making noise at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

“This is actually the most important point,” Crow explained.

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