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While Dems and 3 GOPers Call Hegseth Unqualified, Here's What 'Competent' Pentagon Leadership Has Done

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Last night the Senate, with Vice President JD Vance providing the tiebreaker, voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as the next Secretary of Defense. 

The predictable meltdowns have occurred, and the Washington Post seems troubled as well:

Democrats will be needing some therapy this weekend.

Mitch McConnell was among three Republicans who considered Hegseth not qualified, though the Kentucky senator's past definition of "qualified" has been called into question. 

Looking at where the "traditional" ways have taken the country, it's time to try other ways:

Clearly it's time for somebody who's a bit more of an outsider to helm the Defense Department, considering what "qualified" insiders have accomplished

In November 2024, the Pentagon failed to pass its annual audit, meaning that it wasn’t able to fully account for how its $824 billion budget was used. This was the 7th failed audit in a row, since the Department of Defense became required to undergo yearly-audits in 2018.

In 2024, nine of the twenty-eight Department of Defense sub-audits passed, an increase over the seven passing sub-audits in 2022 and 2023. None failed outright, but in fifteen there wasn’t enough information to come to a conclusion and in one, isolated, but not pervasive, errors were found. The decentralization and size of the Department of Defense, with $4 trillion in assets dispersed across fifty states and over 4,500 locations worldwide, is blamed for this accounting failure.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 requires the Department of Defense to fully pass its audit by 2028.

The "qualified" people also botched a withdrawal in Afghanistan and then held absolutely nobody accountable. Also, remember when the "qualified" Defense Secretary disappeared for almost a week and nobody at the White House even knew where he was

The Pentagon’s announcement that the Defense secretary had been in the hospital since New Year’s Day shocked both the Pentagon press corps and national security professionals, leaving many concerned about the chief military official in America being out of commission for days while wars rage in the Middle East and Ukraine and tensions continue between the U.S. and China over Taiwan.

The White House was out of the loop (but we now know that wasn't unusual). I'm guessing Hegseth will end up by far eclipsing recent SecDefs who have been considered "highly qualified."

What really troubles the usual Beltway Barnacles are Hegseth's top priorities:

To that end, if confirmed, I'm going to work with President Trump — and this committee — to:

  1. Restore the Warrior Ethos to the Pentagon and throughout our fighting force; in doing so, we will reestablish trust in our military — and address the recruiting, retention and readiness crisis in our ranks. The strength of our military is our unity — our shared purpose — not our differences.
  2. Rebuild our Military, always matching threats to capabilities; this includes reviving our defense industrial base, reforming the acquisition process (no more "Valley of Death" for new defense companies), modernizing our nuclear triad, ensuring the Pentagon can pass an audit, and rapidly fielding emerging technologies.
  3. Reestablish Deterrence. First and foremost, we will defend our homeland — our borders and our skies. Second, we will work with our partners and allies to deter aggression in the Indo-Pacific from the communist Chinese. Finally, we will responsibly end wars to ensure we can prioritize our resources — and reorient to larger threats. We can no longer count on "reputational deterrence" — we need real deterrence.

Hegseth was just sworn in so let it begin! Another Democrat smear campaign has gone down in flames. 

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