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The senior Democrats on the Senate and House national security panels, who typically moderate their public statements given their positions, issued a scathing statement before the president’s speech.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview on Sunday that Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. was “not the right man for the moment” and praised President Trump’s handling of the war in Ukraine.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for defense secretary used a generally unflattering term to criticize legal officers in the military.
The committee’s Republican chairman and its top Democrat were briefed on F.B.I. findings into Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick. Democrats questioned whether there were gaps.