Summary
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has told Donald Trump that Pete Hegseth likely has enough votes to be confirmed as Defense Secretary, despite controversy over past sexual misconduct allegations, a financial settlement, and concerns about his leadership and alcohol use.
Hegseth’s confirmation hearing is set for Jan. 14, with Senate Republicans aiming to expedite key national security confirmations before Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
Other high-profile hearings, including for Marco Rubio (State), Pam Bondi (Attorney General), and Tulsi Gabbard (DNI), are tentatively scheduled for the same week amidst ongoing bipartisan negotiations.
I wish that we only had people in our government that took it seriously and didn’t actively hate our population.
Aren’t all those things just prereqs?
Well, he promised he would stop drinking during work hours, so it’s probably fine.
I wonder how many Democrats will be joining these shit Republicans in putting this completely unqualified and sexual abuser into a leadership position?
If the Republicans have the votes to get this alcoholic, unqualified, sexual deviant into the position then fine, let them do it on their own.
It would be absolutely stupid for any Democrat to cast a single vote for those or any other unqualified Trump appointee AMD sets the tone for being capitulating jackasses that will continue to lose their base.
It helps set the record for what your elected representatives are doing.
Unfortunately, nowadays most Democrats agree with Republican positions
Fuck that. Fight even if you’re going to loose because it literally costs them nothing to fight it.
Such a major indictment of the Republican Senate majority and their complete subservience to the Orange Jesus in installing the least qualified and most unfit person ever to be nominated for the top Pentagon job.
