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All eyes on Hegseth nomination hearing 

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14.01.2025
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All eyes on Hegseth nomination hearing

Get ready for a show as Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, will head back to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for his confirmation hearing.

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Hegseth, a former Fox News host, will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee having met previously with numerous Republican senators on the panel but only one Democrat in the weeks since Trump on Nov. 12 first announced his intended pick to lead the Defense Department.

Democrats have cried foul in the days leading up to the hearing, claiming Hegseth has refused to make himself available to them in the same way he has GOP lawmakers, and has failed to provide key vetting information as they look into a series of scandals and scathing media reports on the Army veteran.

Hegseth’s camp has hit back on that allegation, asserting he has reached out to all Senate Democrats starting well before the Christmas holiday — and in some cases before Thanksgiving — but that many did not respond or declined to meet with him until the eleventh hour.

What's more, on Saturday the top two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee — Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and ranking member Jack Reed (D-R.I.) — were briefed by........

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