# US defense secretary faces bipartisan impeachment threat

https://mins.news/en/video/132239

- TRT World, 2026-11-06 11:31 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg7amuED3qw

> US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has come under fire after major Republican losses in the midterms. Vice President JD Vance has blamed the defeat on the economic fallout of the Iran war, and senators are now urging Hegseth to resign, be fired or face impeachment. Bader Al-Saif of Kuwait University offers his analysis.

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