Two Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Mark Kelly, penned an op-ed in Military Times on Tuesday saying Hegseth it’s “extraordinarily unclear” that Hegseth is the individual to guide the Pentagon.
“One fast look at his resume and issues over his lack of expertise and {qualifications} turn out to be apparent,” they wrote.
Duckworth and Kelly are each fight veterans, and so they notice that “navy experiences aren’t necessities for the job, however his civilian management expertise is not only restricted, it is usually fraught with proof that he’s not an efficient or trusted chief.”
They listed what they think about a few of the troubling features of Hegseth’s biography, together with that he allegedly “financially mismanaged two veterans political organizations” and that his workers there mentioned he “misused funds, was steadily drunk in entrance of them and fostered an surroundings the place sexual harassment was a problem.”
Duckworth and Kelly notice that Hegseth “can have the prospect to reply for all of this at his affirmation listening to, together with the chance to share what, if any, views he has on the vital applications and choices that will probably be awaiting the following individual to have this job.” But they write that “as of proper now, the one protection insurance policies he has made clear are his beliefs that our navy’s range is a weak point, not a energy, and that ladies shouldn’t serve in fight” — positions they describe as “not simply mistaken, however harmful.”
“The actuality is that the world is just too harmful of a spot, and our service members’ lives too valuable, to decrease the bar,” they write.
