Pete Hegseth got blistered in the Senate Appropriations Committee today by Sen. Jack Reed and others, who refused to hear his editorializing on Trump's greatness, instead exposing his gross negligence over the war and the Strait of Hormuz.
The Trump administration is demanding another $87.6 billion to restock Pentagon resources following their bombing raids on Iran.
Jack Reed gives a master class on how to calmly and systematically demolish an unqualified MAGA cultist in Trump's cabinet.
Reed started off by asking Whiskey Pete if he was prepared for the possibility that the Strait of Hormuz could be closed during a conflict since the Pentagon had been planning for an event like this for decades.
Hegseth tried to blame President Biden for his screw-ups, but Reed would have none of it.
REED: Were you aware that the Strait of Hormuz could be closed, and obviously sinking their ships has not affected their ability to effectively close the Strait.
HEGSETH: We had U.S. boats that surrendered to Iranian ships under the Biden administration, so their navy was affected in expeditious ways in the past.
REED: Listen, we're talking about a war you started, not a situation in which oil was flowing freely, there was no conflict, we weren't losing personnel as a result of Iranian actions, so your fallback to the Biden administration is just a very, very obvious excuse for what I think is probably, as you described, so often gross negligence.
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