House Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to send the House home a day early, and subsequently slash two weeks from the fall schedule, is under intense scrutiny, with Rep. Thomas Massie alleging the move was a deliberate tactic to prevent a vote on his articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Johnson stated the early adjournment was because the House “has done its work” and Republicans needed to campaign in their districts, but Massie countered that the timing was precisely calculated to circumvent the 48-hour window required to consider his “privileged” impeachment resolution, which would have forced a vote by the end of Thursday. Massie believes that had the House remained in session, a motion to table his impeachment articles might have failed, potentially leading to direct votes on impeaching Hegseth without prior committee investigation, a scenario he suggests Republican leadership was desperate to avoid, drawing parallels to Johnson’s previous actions of adjourning the House to delay votes on other measures, such as the Epstein file release.
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