President-elect Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary-nominee Pete Hegseth, paused by multiple protester outbursts, vowed in his opening statement at his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday to “restore a warrior ethos” to the U.S. military.
“When President Trump chose me for this position, the primary charge he gave me was — to bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense,” Hegseth said in his opening statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee, which aired in its entirety on Newsmax and the free Newsmax2 streaming platform.
“He, like me, wants a Pentagon laser focused on warfighting, lethality, meritocracy, standards, and readiness. That’s it. That is my job.”
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