{"id":648,"date":"2026-11-11T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2026-11-11T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:59:23","slug":"opinion-democrats-help-hegseth-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Democrats Help Hegseth Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<p>A failed Democratic attempt to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given him a fresh lifeline, according to opinion writers at a major financial daily. Rather than weakening him, the unsuccessful push is seen as handing Hegseth a political reprieve.<\/p>\n<p>The botched effort may have strengthened his standing, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/pete-hegseth-thomas-massie-impeachment-congress-donald-trump-cfbfbdbf?mod=rss_usnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall Street Journal \u2014 Opinion | Democrats Help Hegseth Survive<\/a>. Also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/6213391-house-democrat-madeleine-dean-pete-hegseth-warning-impeachment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thehill.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/hegseth-impeachment-house-massie-democrats-republicans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MS NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pete Hegseth, impeachment, Defense Secretary, Democrats, Congress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A failed Democratic attempt to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given him a fresh lifeline, according to opinion writers at a major financial\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,2],"tags":[149,316,188,437,315],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-j-trump","category-military","category-politics","tag-congress","tag-defense-secretary","tag-democrats","tag-impeachment","tag-pete-hegseth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}