Female officials at Pentagon wary of Hegseth pick, senator-elect says

Sen.-elect Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said there is mounting concern among female officers at the Department of Defense following the nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon.

“I don’t think it’s an understatement to say there is real stress on the horse right now, but there is a lot of power,” she told Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “The secretary of Defense is designed to be a very important job. So who we put in there is extremely, extremely critical to our security and who we are as a nation.”