Republicans blustered for months on Hegseth nomination. Then they did Trump's bidding

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : But it shows how in the end, the best definition of a Republican is loyalty to Trump and Democrats have yet to penetrate that armor.
47% : When he opened the Senate Armed Services Committee's confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Defense, he wore a lapel pin with the Ukrainian and U.S. flag on it.
39% : After a few rocky weeks in late 2024 -- when his nomination briefly appeared doomed -- Republicans, with Trump remaining squarely behind him, rallied around Hegseth, who became a sort of litmus test for loyalty to Trump.
39% : That would have been unthinkable when Trump first nominated him.
38% : On multiple occasions during Trump's first term, Hegseth used his television post to argue successfully for Trump to pardon soldiers who'd been turned in by people under their command for committing atrocities and had been convicted at courts-martial -- by juries of their peers after trials conducted under the Unifom Code of Military Justice -- for offenses ranging from outright murder to violating the Geneva Conventions by posing with corpses of slain enemies, something American troops have been prohibited from doing for over a century.
37% : The confirmation hearing comes about two months after Matt Gaetz, the firebrand former Florida congressman and Trump acolyte, rescinded his nomination to lead the Department of Justice as it became increasingly clear he lacked the necessary support.

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