The United States House of Representatives voted 211 to 204 on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, to send the impeachment resolution against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to the Judiciary Committee, closing the effort for the remainder of this Congress. The vote fell almost entirely along party lines and left a single Republican on the Democratic side.
The outcome came a week after Democrats won both chambers in the midterm elections of November 3, a contest in which Republicans lost the Senate and the lower house, according to The Guardian's tally. Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky introduced the resolution as a privileged measure after losing his primary following a break with President Donald Trump, who had expressed his support for Hegseth. For Mexico, the episode matters because Washington's security team shapes migration cooperation and security coordination across North America and the Caribbean, two issues that touch the bilateral agenda.
The motion to refer the matter to the Judiciary Committee passed with Massie as the only Republican opposed, according to Axios. Eleven Democrats did not vote, among them Nancy Pelosi, according to The Guardian's tally. The resolution holds that Hegseth conducted the war with Iran without congressional authorization and beyond the 60-day limit of the War Powers Act, and it questions his conduct in the strikes against the Houthis in Yemen and in military operations in Venezuela, according to Deutsche Welle. Massie compared his fellow party members to passengers who know the ship is sinking and stay on board anyway; Vice President JD Vance responded that raising the question of whether impeachable offenses occurred is absurd.
Democrats will take control of both chambers in January, and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he will talk with his members about whether to revive the effort, the Los Angeles Times reported. The signal for the region is that the continuity of the US security team enters the incoming Congress's agenda in a year of alliance review.
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