Pete Hegseth Is About to Get His Ass Kicked

It’s been one week since Election Day, and Pete Hegseth is facing a different kind of war. Trump administration officials tell Inner Loop they knew the defense secretary would face a slew of investigations in the next Congress. Now, they think he is on track to be Democrats’ number one target—and Democrats are already planning to make their case as airtight as possible.

“Hegseth is now a passenger in whatever comes next,” says one source close to President Donald Trump. “And all the outcomes are potentially damaging.”

House Democratic aides tell Inner Loop that Democrats are likely to pursue an impeachment inquiry against Hegseth, and also work to narrow the charges against him to issues that Senate Republicans have also complained about, in an effort to attract their support.

Hegseth, who has championed the deeply unpopular and costly Iran war, has spent much of his controversial tenure upending various internal...

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