Instead of strengthening a weakened military—his primary duty as commander-in-chief—Obama evidently believed that it was more important to open all combat jobs to women. Assigning women to ...
If Hegseth is confirmed and restricts women from combat roles, "our military can no longer do its job," Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said Thursday, after she declared in a floor speech that he is ...
President Donald Trump‘s new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose controversial nomination received “no” votes from three GOP Senators before advancing via Vice President JD Vance‘s tie-breaking ...
The military announced gender-neutral standards for combat roles in 2016. In his public bid to become the next defense secretary, former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth told a Senate panel on ...
Democrats geared up Tuesday to grill Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth on his past behavior and opposition to women serving in combat roles during his potentially explosive confirmation ...
WASHINGTON − At Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense on Tuesday, senators picked relentlessly at his widely espoused – then quickly reversed – view that women don't belong in ...
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be Defense secretary, appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday ...
“I’m straight up saying that we should not have women in combat roles,” Hegseth said on the podcast. “It hasn’t made us more effective.” “There is no U.S. military as we know it ...
From late 2024 onward, a claim circulated online that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said women should not serve in military combat roles. Shortly after President Donald Trump nominated him for ...