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Senator who voted to confirm Hegseth now backs resolution to impeach him
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“You don't sell your buddy a car and then organize the block to repossess it because it won't start — you knew the engine when you signed it over. The same senators who put Hegseth in that job, watched him lose an Army secretary and start a war nobody in Congress voted on, now want credit for showing him the door. The confirmation vote was the sale; this is the buyer's-remorse tour, and the country's the one holding the loan papers while they sort out their feelings.”
“Look, Senator Tillis has always said accountability starts at the top — did I say always? He said it twice in September, which is consistency, not, whatever people are calling it. He's not walking back the confirmation vote, he's exercising oversight, that's Congress doing its job, that's a totally different thing from — okay, it's a little bit the same thing.”
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who voted to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, is renewing his call for President Trump to fire the Pentagon chief after Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned. “He needs to go, whether it’s impeachment or the most expedient route — just the president to replace him — would be great,”
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