House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) push to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth a “publicity stunt” after canceling Thursday’s votes and sending the House home a day early for its seven-week recess in the run-up to the midterm elections.

“Let me talk about the impeachment vote, that’s ridiculous,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday morning. “It’s a publicity stunt by someone who wants attention. It will immediately be tabled, of course, but we probably won’t do that today. We’ll probably do it when we come back. But it’s a stunt. Secretary Hegseth has done an extraordinary job at the Department of War. We’re in the middle of international conflicts right now, and we should not be playing games with national security, and I think that’s how the members see this.”