The Republican-led House voted 211 to 204 on Tuesday to send articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to the Judiciary Committee, effectively killing the effort for the rest of this Congress and canceling a floor vote scheduled for Wednesday.
The resolution was introduced by Republican Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky, who said Gasth had been leading the war on Iran for more than 90 days without congressional approval.
Her eight articles also cover violations of the war powers resolution, the deadly boat attacks, the capture of the Venezuelan president and the war in Yemen.
All Democrats voted against the referral, and the vote came a week after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterms. Hesseth called the effort politically motivated, and Trump said Democrats "failed" to impeach him, even though the push came from within his own party and the vote was procedural. Any revival will fall to the next Congress, where the Democrats will hold the majority.