Sen. Tammy Duckworth to Pete Hegseth: ‘You Have Not Earned Your Place as Secretary of Defense’

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DUCKWORTH: “How can we ask these warriors to train and perform the absolute highest standards when you are asking us to lower the standards to make you the Secretary of Defense simply because you are buddies with our president-elect? And by the way, he has filed for bankruptcy six times. I’m not quite sure he’s the kind of CEO you want to refer to as a successful businessman. Let me make it clear. You can’t seem to grasp that there is no U.S. Military as we know it without the incredible women that we serve. Women who earned their place in their units. You have not earned your place as Secretary of Defense. You say you care about keeping our armed forces as strong and that you like that our armed forces is a meritocracy. Then let’s not lower the standards for you. You, sir, are a no-go at this station.”