Outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., plans to bring articles of impeachment against Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth for “high crimes and misdemeanors” first thing next week. “I plan on introducing it Monday or Tuesday, as soon as we get back,” Massie told the Daily Signal, adding that he “believe[s] support for impeachment has grown” since the election. Republicans, including President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, claim that the midterm election blue wave was due to the war in Iran. “The reason we lost is the war,” Vance wrote on X. “The president himself said so last night. If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so.” However, the president has said he has “every intention to keep” Hegseth. At the War Department: We Stand.We Fight. We Defend the Republic. pic.twitter.com/Kkr0DazmCE— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) November 5, 2026 The congressman brought similar charges against Hegseth in September. However, House Speaker Mike Johnson blocked his attempts to force a vote by sending members home early. Massie says the re-introduced privileged impeachment resolution will be substantially the same as the eight charges he filed in September, but he will have to update it as the U.S. has continued military action since. “There’s a just a few things we’ve changed in it. They’ve bombed more fishing boats since the last time. Yeah, we have to update a few numbers, and so there’ll be just minor changes to it probably,” he said. While Massie said he believes support for Hegseth’s impeachment has grown, he doesn’t know if his resolution will pass. “Chances are better now than they were before the election,” he said. “Some people will vote for it because they’re not coming back, I think, and some people will vote for it because they want to put some daylight between themselves and this administration or themselves in this war. It’s an opportunity for them to show the people that they got the message, even if Trump hasn’t shown that he got the message,” Massie continued. Massie says he has not spoken with Johnson or other members of the GOP about his plans. Johnson has not yet responded to the Daily Signal’s request for comment. “It’s possible that the vote won’t be on the impeachment itself—it’ll be a vote on a motion to table or a motion to refer it to committee, and both of those would effectively kill it,” Massie said. “It’s possible that Mike Johnson will try a couple of dilatory things first to kill it. … We’d have to survive both of those things and then vote on the articles themselves.” Massie, who will not return to Congress in January since he lost his May primary, has roughly 20 legislative days left in office. He plans to use them to work to impeach Hegseth and to advance his Epstein Files Transparency Act II, which he says needs only two more signatures to force a vote. “These two things will be more than the entire conference does on its own, outside of the CR [continuing resolution]. I mean, they had to shut Congress down for two-and-a-half weeks to avoid these two things,” he concluded.