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The battle over Pete Hegseth’s confirmation to lead the U.S. Department of Defense marched into its next chapter on Tuesday as CNN’s chief congressional correspondent caught up with U.S. Senate Republicans eager to avoid talking about the latest allegations against him.
Hegseth was the target of a New Yorker article on Monday that relied on allegations from a former employee that he was dismissed from several prominent veterans charities for abusing alcohol and sorting female employees into “party girls” and “not party girls” categories, among other salacious items. Through attorney Tim Parlatore, the former Fox News anchor denied the allegations and hit back at the liberal publication for relying on a “disgruntled” anonymous employee as a source. The drama was avoided at all costs in Capitol hallways on Tuesday as Republican senators ducked questions or feigned ignorance about the story.
“The Pentagon needs a serious course correction, so I’m going to have a lot of questions for him,” Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) said about Hegseth, “but I think he’s the kind of guy who can do that.” Asked by reporter Manu Raju if he planned to question Hegseth about the latest round of allegations, Sullivan demurred. “There’s a process for that. Sometimes you’ve gotta take these allegations seriously. Sometimes, even when you take them ’em seriously, they turn out to be inaccurate.”
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