The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives voted to refer the impeachnent of War Secretary Pete Hegseth to the Judiciary Committee for consideration.
The vote effectively killed the impeachment of Hegseth for his role in the Iran War, which is continuing to roil members of Congress in both parties.
The war began in February with both U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launching air strikes against Iran.
An Israeli strike early in the war, which was dubbed Operation Epic Fury, took out the country's former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and much of the leadership of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, along with the Iranian navy and air force.
Still, the length of the war and the higher gas and diesel prices that went with it caused a political shift in the United States, with a massive voter rejection of Trump's policies that resulted in a Democratic wave that saw the party sweep the U.S. electoral map.
