The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to effectively kill the articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — for now — by blocking their consideration on the House floor and sending them back to the Judiciary Committee, where GOP leaders can hold them up until the next Congress is seated in January 2027.

Democrats — who voted unanimously against shelving the impeachment effort — will have a large House majority next year after winning at least 255 seats in last week's midterm elections. They have already vowed to try to remove Hegseth from office when they take control of Congress.

"In the majority, one of the first things we're gonna do is run Pete Hegseth out of town," Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader who is poised to become House speaker, Read Entire Article