Congress vs. Hegseth
But as hard-line adviser Stephen Miller takes over as the new White House chief of staff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continues to enthusiastically defend his position and the war, the question remains: Where does the administration go from here in a war of their own making?
Key points
- This week on Radio Atlantic, our staff writers Nancy Youssef and Tom Nichols discuss where the administration goes from here, what options exist to get out of Iran, what to make of Hegseth’s potential impeachment, and how the Defense Secretary has changed the relationship between American democracy and the American military.
- Democrats have said that they will vote to end the war; they’ve said, with some Republican support, that they will begin impeachment hearings for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
- The following is a transcript of the episode: Nancy Youssef: The most enduring impact [Pete] Hegseth has had, in addition to the war, is on personnel.
Vance quickly tried to distance himself from the conflict, and then Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth released a video in support of the war, saying: Pete Hegseth: Peace through strength is once again American military policy.
Additional details
- Hegseth: A disgruntled, defeated congressman, along with all his Democrat allies has also dropped sham articles of impeachment against yours truly.….
- But after naming the hard-line adviser Stephen Miller, the architect and champion of some of the president’s most aggressive domestic and foreign policies, as his chief of staff, Trump may as well double-down on the agenda he’s chased for the past two years.
- These are people with 20, 30 years experience, and then there’s all the impacts you don’t see—the captains and the majors who are looking at what’s happened to those ahead of them and saying, I’m not gonna stick around.
- Vance wrote on social media, “The reason we lost is the war.” Now Democrats are exploring the legislative tools they have to act as a check on the administration: They have the War Powers Act, they could withhold military funds through appropriations.
- There’s at least six charges, some of them related to the war as well as to the boat strikes and some of the other actions that the secretary’s taken.
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