“I don’t trust him anymore.I think he’s all over the place — he’s pushing people out of the military who are really good at their jobs,” said Senator Thom Tillis.He has been critical of the administration, especially because he is about to retire.
For Donald Trump, Tillis’s vote is really important if Trump wants to push through a budget plan before the August break.
The White House is asking for an extra $73 billion for the military and intelligence agencies, most of which will be used for the Iran war.
Many Americans are having a hard time paying for basic groceries, but the President wants to spend more of our money on a war he can’t win, all for Israel’s interests.
And at the center of this big problem is Hegseth, a man who wouldn’t know what to do in a puddle of water.
“I think he has a big insecurity problem, he doesn’t have much experience with big organizations, and he controls everything too much.
I don’t trust him anymore,” Tillis said about Hegseth.
But Tillis isn’t the only Republican who feels this way.
He said there are “other people” who are just “one decision or another” away from speaking up against Hegseth’s poor leadership.Given how quickly Hegseth makes mistakes, we will eventually reach a point where speaking out and facing backlash from the MAGA group is better than staying silent.
The Hill talked to an anonymous Republican senator who is “close to Defense policymakers” and they explained how bad the lack of confidence in Hegseth has become.
“I have heard from the Pentagon that there’s a loss of confidence — inside the Pentagon.
And of course, everyone here on the Hill hears the same concerns,” the lawmaker said.
In addition to the messed-up Iran war, Hegseth has created a culture of ignorance and fear at the Pentagon, stopping the promotions of highly qualified female service members and forcing respected, experienced leaders to retire early.
“Tillis said, “Everybody knows about some of the Game of Thrones stuff going on with some of the other service secretaries and Hegseth.
It seems like he wants to run the whole place.”
“When you’re a leader, you better damn sure have people smarter than you in the room,” he added.
“You’re supposed to be the air traffic controller for all these brilliant people and he’s ruining the DOD’s success by undermining these brilliant people who spent their entire careers in uniform.”
The problem is that with Hegseth, no matter what room he steps into, every single person in it is smarter than him.
Instead of accepting his lack of intelligence, he lashes out, childish-like, punishing people for knowing more than him.His perfect Pentagon is a place full of men with 80 IQs (because he only wants men around him) who do nothing but praise his bad decisions.
Another Republican senator told The Hill there are “rumblings” about the failure to predict Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz — something every geopolitical analyst had predicted.
“I think there’s a sense that it took longer than we thought and that maybe our strategy didn’t consider the Strait of Hormuz or [Iran’s] ability to hit their neighbors.
I think there were some miscalculations,” the senator said.
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