In House Appropriations Committee Ranking Democratic Member Rosa DeLauro, Pete Hegseth is outranked and out of excuses.
DeLauro refused to be gaslighted by the Secretary of Defense and scolded Hegseth for not supplying any actual data to the committee.
Hegseth, like every Trump official, always starts by blaming the Biden administration for their failings, but by the end of her short questioning, Hegseth was putty in her hands.
DELAURO: So do we have a plan, do you have a plan, for making the necessary investments to ramp up submarine production to the necessary levels?
And what is that plan?
HEGSETH: Ma’am, first of all I want to thank this committee for the flexibility alongside FY25 and the continued resolution.
DELAURO: Well, I would hope you would thank this committee for the funding that it has made. We have made a serious investment, so your first statement is inaccurate.
We have focused squarely on submarines and we now want to know where that is going and what your plan is for the continued advancements to meet production levels and make sure that that is an area that is covered for our national security.
HEGSETH: Ma’am, I fully acknowledge the investment this committee has made in shipbuilding and the challenges our department under the previous administration squandered a lot of that by not investing properly.
