The United States Senate confirmed that the chain’s expresser Fox News and member of the Pete Hegseth Army Guard It will be the new Secretary of Defense. After a session with tied votes, the one who decided in favor of Hegseth was the vice president JD Vance. President Donald Trump nominated him in the post after his electoral victory in November.
After the vote ended up tied, with 50 votes in favor and 50 against, the session in the plenary of the upper house was suspended momentary so that the US vice president went to the room to break the equality with his favorable vote.
An tied vote to choose the Secretary of Defense
Hegesh thus becomes the new head of the portfolio, despite the controversy of his nomination by the US president, Donald Trump, splatter even by accusations of sexual abuse.
This same week, an ex -owned offered a sworn statement in the Congress in which he accused Hegesh of having been “abusive” with his second wife, Samantha Hegseth, and having been “intoxicated” in private and public.
The now Secretary of Defense, who will be the main manager of 1.3 million military personnel in service, rejected those accusations, as well as other previous ones related to cases of sexual abuse.
Republican senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski had already confirmed their opposition, which surprised Trump himself.
Pete Hegesh and Donald Trump
Hegseth pointed out that the accusations against him constituted a political persecution. “Why do you want to destroy me?” He said.
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“Political persecution”
Hegseth pointed out that these accusations constituted a political persecution. “Why do you want to destroy me? Because I am a change agent and a threat to them, because Donald Trump was willing to choose me to take the Department of Defense to what it really should be, which is the fight against war, “he said weeks ago in an audience in the chamber High
Hegesh, who spent a year for the Naval Base of Guantanamo, in which imprisoned for the attacks of September 11, 2001, admitted in that audience that he is an atypical candidate, but did not see him as an obstacle.
What would Hegseth do after his passage to defense
Hegseth has expressed his rejection for “awake” policies of the leaders of the Pentagon, including its main military officer. A suspicion around him, when Trump nominated him in office, was that his entry entails Draw the American army of generals to which he accuses of applying progressive policies.
This is, about diversity in the ranks against which conservatives have manifested. Trump, announcing his decision, praised Hegseth, expressing that “With Pete in command, the enemies of the United States are on notice: Our Armed Forces will be great and the United States will never give up. “
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