Amna Nawaz
@PBSNewsHour·5.3M subscribers·62.2K videos
WATCH: Hegseth's failures have been 'staggering' since taking office, Sen. Duckworth says
Posted
June 18, 2025
Views
122,997
Likes
2,737
Engagement
2.23%
June 18, 2025
122,997
2,737
2.23%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
5:18Now PlayingSen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., excoriated Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he testified Wednesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the Trump administration's proposed defense budget.
"You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp," said Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran and former lieutenant colonel in the Army National Guard. "Your failures, Mr. Secretary, since you've taken office has been staggering."
Duckworth criticized the Defense Department's deployment of Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests there against immigration raids and the authorization of troops in Florida, Louisiana and Texas to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with "admin and logistics work."
e due to your incompetence," Duckworth told Hegseth.
Subscribe for exclusive content in our newsletters
PBS News podcasts
Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app
Find more from PBS News at
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
TikTok: / pbsnews
X: / newshour
Instagram: / newshour
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
