US Vice President Vance: Did Peter Hegseth commit impeachable offenses? The question itself is absurd, and the answer is clearly no. Like many other things Congress does, impeachment has degenerated into a ridiculous political spectacle, replacing genuine policy-making. Congress has many tools to express policy differences, but instead of using them, they intend to impeach Peter Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump before. Legislation is difficult; impeachment is easy (and ultimately has no real consequences). Ironically, some of the issues that lawmakers are most dissatisfied with regarding Hegseth are precisely the things he did most correctly: shifting the focus of US military deployments away from Europe and Ukraine, and reorganizing the general officer system. This has nothing to do with Iran; the real issue is that Hegseth challenged the interests of the Pentagon bureaucracy.
