Massie files impeachment articles against Hegseth, Johnson sends the House home seven weeks early instead of voting.

…(cont) None of this required Massie's word alone. Frank Kendall, who ran the Air Force under two administrations, told The Hill this month he "couldn't serve" in this Pentagon, and days before that called the department under Hegseth "dysfunctional" — a former service secretary, not an opposition researcher. A combat veteran running against Rep. Mike Lawler said she'd vote to impeach Hegseth herself if she had a seat on the floor. The internal case against the man was assembled by people who wore the uniform, sitting in the record before Massie ever filed a page.

The New York Times spent this same week asking lawmakers from both parties why the institution looks, as the paper's own headline put it, broken beyond repair; what members actually handed reporters back was a shared diagnosis of dysfunction under this administration, Republicans and Democrats both signing their names to it. And the fix the chamber chose, the same week its own members described it that way, was to close the doors seven weeks early instead of holding the one vote the Constitution built it to hold.

The paper trail was already sitting on the clerk's desk. The chamber's answer was to leave before anyone had to read it out loud.