ICYMI—Hagerty Joins The Story With Martha MacCallum on Fox News to Discuss Democrats Delaying Trump’s Cabinet Confirmations

WASHINGTON-United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations, Banking, and Foreign Relations Committees and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, yesterday joined The Story With Martha MacCallum on Fox News to discuss his strong support for Pete Hegseth, and Senate Democrats playing political games to delay President Donald Trump's cabinet confirmations.

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Hagerty on Democrats' politically-motivated delay of Trump's cabinet confirmations: "We're moving ahead in due course here. I think the biggest difficulty has been the Democrats that are using every procedural move they can, Martha, to try to slow this thing down. Right now, we're scheduled to vote on Pete [Hegseth] tonight. From that point, we'll move on to start the clock again for Kristi Noem. That'll take another thirty hours of work, so Kristi won't come up again until very early on Sunday morning. Then we'll start the clock off on Scott Bessent [early Sunday morning]. And they'll roll forward into Monday, vote on Scott, then go to Sean Duffy and just continue this process. The Democrats have used every procedural mechanism available to them to slow us down. And I'll just remind you, Martha, we are far, far behind where we were in [former President Barack] Obama's initial Administration. We're behind where we were, frankly, with President Trump, his first term, and clearly, [former] President [Joe] Biden. I don't think the Democrats got the message."

Hagerty on his strong support for Pete Hegseth: "Certainly, our members [of the Senate] are all entitled to vote as they're going to. I'm certainly going to be supportive of Pete because I think if you watch the four-and-a-half-hour confirmation hearing, you're going to see that Pete is very bright, very energetic, and very talented. He's going to be able to inspire the troops, recruit and retain as he should. And I hope that all my colleagues will take a very hard look at that and vote in the affirmative tonight."

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