On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a defiant and aggressive testimony before the House Armed Services Committee.
While the testimony was billed as being about the Pentagon’s budget, it inevitably became about the War in Iran. During the testimony, Hegseth was sometimes outright belligerent. My colleague Holly Baxter said that he sounded increasingly deluded and desperate, hoping to win the support of the audience of one that is Donald Trump.
At one point, he gallingly said that “the biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans.”
“Choosing to call out Democrats and some Republicans as our greatest threat, amidst all the threats, including an act of war, shows you what a f***ng joke he is,” Rep. Pat Ryan of New York, a West Point graduate, told The Independent. “I asked them questions about six Americans that were killed, and he wouldn't even answer in a straightforward way.”
Even Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), who represents the Navy-heavy Virginia Beach, grilled Hegseth about the dismissal of the Secretary of the Navy John Phelan.
But if Hegseth had a rough go at it at the House of Representatives, he will have an even tougher time before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
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