Trump administration live updates: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addresses House impeachment effort

House and Senate Republicans will select their leadership for the new Congress today after a midterm drubbing.

In his first post-midterm news briefing yesterday, Trump talked about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy, the effort to impeach the defense secretary and the massive Republican losses at the ballot box last week.

Trump was joined at the impromptu briefing by Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, to whom he jokingly offered the White House press secretary job last week. The president said he thought he would have “a little fun” by bringing White out to take questions from reporters.

The House could vote as early as 5:30 p.m. today on Massie's resolution to impeach Hegseth, according to the daily floor schedule.

The schedule lists for possible consideration a “procedural motion relating” to the impeachment resolution, meaning a Republican could make a motion to table the resolution or refer it to a committee. Either of those votes would take a majority, and if successful, would prevent a vote on the impeachment resolution itself.

If there are a majority of votes to defeat a tabling or referral motion, then the House would have to vote on the impeachment resolution.

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