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Hegseth Tosses Everyone Off DoD Advisory Committees – HotAir

Why are they gunning for this guy?

*snickers*

THIS IS WHY

Everyone who has been serving on Department of Defense advisory committees is to be thanked for their service and told that said service ‘is concluded‘ aka ‘out of a cushy post.’





Of course, there’s going to be all sorts of caterwauling about the move. But just like the programs that Biden initiated that now it seems Trump cannot undo, there is precedent for this as well.

While press releases call it a ‘tit-for-tat,’ they also acknowledge that lumpy Lloyd Austin removed every Trump appointee and then some serving on a committee from their chairs. 

…It’s the latest in a string of tit-for-tat Pentagon advisory committee shakeups dating back to the waning days of the first Trump administration.

Late 2020 saw many members of the Defense Business Board and Defense Policy Board removed, and replaced with…

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