Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Pentagon, is set to testify that “politics should play no part in military matters” in his opening statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. “In pursuing these America First national security goals, we will remain patriotically a-political and stridently Constitutional,” Hegseth is prepared to […]
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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Pentagon, is set to testify that “politics should play no part in military matters” in his opening statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.
“In pursuing these America First national security goals, we will remain patriotically a-political and stridently Constitutional,” Hegseth is prepared to say, according to a copy of his opening statement obtained by the Washington Examiner.