“There’s growing concern about general professionalism,” an outside adviser to a GOP senator on the Senate Armed Services Committee said, granted anonymity to speak candidly.
“When you have these big staff changes, when you have reports about [Hegseth] bringing his spouse to highly sensitive meetings, the Signal stuff, a hair and makeup studio in the Pentagon, it distracts from the mission of the Pentagon, the Trump administration, and creates real concern about the ability to handle a crisis,” the person added.
As Trump defends Hegseth and brushes off the latest reports as inflated, many in the GOP have circled the wagons around him. Approving his nomination demanded a heavy investment from Republican leadership in the Senate, further discouraging open criticism.
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