Don Beyer: “had that vote happened I would have voted YES”
Don BeyerUnited States Representative for Virginia’s 8th district, posting on his official account
Representative Don Beyer said that had the House been allowed to vote on whether to consider impeaching Hegseth, he would have voted yes, and accused Speaker Johnson of sending the House into recess early to avoid that vote.
“For the record, had that vote happened I would have voted YES.”
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Should Pete Hegseth be impeached?
Members of the House have advanced multiple impeachment proposals involving Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Rep. Shri Thanedar introduced H.Res. 935 in December 2025, Rep. Yassamin Ansari introduced H.Res. 1177 in April 2026, and Rep. Thomas Massie announced in September that he would offer a privileged resolution. The proposals allege distinct conduct involving military operations, oversight, and the handling of sensitive information; the proposals themselves do not establish those allegations. Hegseth disputed the characterization that anyone was “texting war plans,” while Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson called the April effort a charade and, after Massie read his articles on September 15, defended Hegseth’s record without addressing the specific allegations. The dispute is whether the House should impeach Hegseth on the basis of the congressional proposals and available evidence.
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The complete post on Bluesky. Secondary aggregators carried only a truncated fragment beginning mid-sentence at “afraid to let the House vote.”
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Posted the day after House leadership cancelled the final day of votes and sent members into a seven-week recess without acting on Massie’s privileged resolution.
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Beyer frames the recess as avoidance rather than scheduling: he says Johnson acted “because he was afraid to let the House vote.” No vote on the resolution had been held as of September 18.
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On whether the House should impeach Hegseth, Beyer states plainly how he would have voted, which is a direct answer to the question the case asks rather than a judgement about Hegseth’s conduct in general. This is what separates him from Senator Tillis, recorded here as “Mixed or conditional”: Tillis wants Hegseth gone but declines to endorse the impeachment route, while Beyer commits to the vote itself.
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