Reports are that Trump likes Pete Hegseth’s ‘swag’….
His ‘I don’t give a Fuckness’….
That was alright a year and a half ago….
That seem’s to be getting tired…
The Defense Sec has NOT posted much of any wins for himself or boss
A stalemate war ….
Eating up money and weapons….
Negative media on his ‘housecleaning’ and media scraps….
AND?
Bad relations with Congress….
(Getting rid of their General’s that lawmakers trusted and worked with)
Talking DOWN to them and excluding them from briefing’s
Democrats ….
And?
Now even Republicans….
The same people who HAVE to write the checks for The Defense Dept…..
One could think that this guy IS running out of time in his job….
Turning himself into a political liability to his boss ….
And?
Making himself Expendable….
The Pentagon is shutting congressional Democrats out of classified briefings — and even Republicans are shocked by the brazen partisanship.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth trekked to Capitol Hill at least twice in recent weeks to make closed-door pitches for his record $1.5 trillion defense budget. But lawmakers in both parties say he followed an increasingly familiar patternof excluding Democrats.
The freezeout underscores the Trump administration’s hyperpartisan approach to Congress — particularly the Pentagon’s penchant for secrecy under Hegseth. Whether keeping lawmakers in the dark about the rationale behind prolonged boat strikes in the Caribbean or a decoy Air Force One flight, the administration risks jeopardizing its main priorities by cutting out key players.
“He calls himself the secretary of war, but ironically, he doesn’t want to go to war and win the argument with nearly half the members of the Senate,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). “You got to engage.”
Blowing off Democratic lawmakers could doom Hegseth’s push to enact President Donald Trump’s unprecedented Pentagon budget increase, which worries Republicans who are largely supportive of it. Without Democratic support in the Senate, the effort could fail this fall.
“They’re preaching to the choir when they have Republicans on the Armed Services Committee and they’re making a case for the budget,” said a GOP member of the committee, granted anonymity to speak frankly about the dynamic. “It’s a briefing that should be provided to 100 senators.”
In keeping with their bare knuckles approach, Hegseth and other top Trump administration officials are pressing Republicans to use a special process — known as reconciliation — that would allow the GOP to steamroll Democrats so they can fund the Iran war and much of the Pentagon spending increase.
But even if Republicans can muster the political will for those party-line reconciliation votes, the GOP would still need Democrats’ help to enact the lion’s share of next year’s defense budget. Democrats have vowed to boycott the funding bills.
Republicans have urged the White House to change course — both to salvage the bills and as a matter of good faith….
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The Pentagon’s approach is “extremely short-sighted, because you have got to have bipartisan majorities over a longer period of time to really build defense capability,” the person said. “It’s not built one year at a time. And some of the more frustrated people are the senior Republicans.”
And in the politics of the Hill, Hegseth’s exclusion of Democrats could come back to haunt him.
“If and when the House flips, as many political pundits think it will,” the former official said, Pentagon leaders “will have nobody to work with, because they have not built any relationships.”…
image….Politico
Too much hooch will do funny things to people.
They need to give this street drunk a breath test before he can enter the Pentagon.
He, he, he…..
He IS beginning to generate GOPer lawmaker enemies…..
NOT a Good Look not matter how much he thinks Trump & Co. Tell him they have his back……….
Another media mistake…..
Hegseth calls conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln ‘completely misrepresented’
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday claimed that conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier have been “completely misrepresented” following reports that sailors, struggling with low morale during a grueling deployment, have attempted to jump overboard.
Speaking with Newsmax, Hegseth did not directly address reports of supply shortages, water contamination and deteriorating mental health on the Abraham Lincoln, nor did he say when the vessel would return stateside after leaving San Diego in November….
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The reports prompted Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, to write a letter to Hegseth and acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao to express “serious concerns” about the aircraft carrier’s extended deployment.
“The Lincoln is not an isolated case. Recent carrier deployments have repeatedly stretched beyond their original anticipated durations, suggesting that extended deployments may be becoming a feature rather than an exception of the Navy’s force-generation model,” Blumenthal wrote.
And Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) on Thursday called for more scrutiny of the conditions aboard the Abraham Lincoln, demanding an official, bipartisan visit to the carrier.
“It’s clear Donald Trump, who avoided active duty himself, couldn’t care less about the health and safety our service members. Congress needs to do its job and hold this administration accountable,” Gallego posted on the social platform X.
Morale is reportedly low aboard the Abraham Lincoln as its roughly 5,000 service members have hit more than 250 consecutive days at sea and at least 40 days of continuous combat operations in support of the Iran war….
More…
Hegseth just does NOT get how be ‘Human’……
All his stuff IS gonna add up….
Update…
The U.S. is sending a new aircraft carrier to the Middle East amid reports of poor conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been long deployed to the theater in support of the war against Iran.
The USS George Washington, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, departed a port in Vietnam last week and was spotted crossing the Strait of Malacca on Thursday, a waterway that connects the Indian and Pacific oceans, according to ship-tracking social media accounts….
Note…
Hegseth says EVERYTHING is Ok?