Senator Cory Booker, DN.J. said it will send a “dangerous message to the military” on political loyalty to the president from his role as chairman of the co-status after President Donald Trump fired CQ Brown Jr. on Sunday. Ta. .
Trump fired Brown, the highest ranked military officer in the United States on Friday. Then President Joe Biden was nominated for Brown in 2023 for a four-year term.
The chairman “needs need to provide independent military and national security advice,” Booker told moderator Kristen Welker in an interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press, saying that the chairman is unrelated to politics. He said that position terms have been set in
“Donald Trump is throwing it out the window and sending a dangerous message to the military. It’s not about your independent expertise, it’s not about your years of service. It’s about your personal life to me. It’s about political loyalty, and it’s about our military when we really need independent and reliable advice when we go to President, as we live in a difficult and complicated world. It’s a dangerous message to send,” Booker said.
The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding Booker’s remarks.
Brown was confirmed in 2023 with strong bipartisan support by the Senate, and won 83 votes in support of his confirmation. He took over former chairman Mark Millie.
Sen. Jack Reed, in an interview with ABC News “this week,” said Brown’s firing was “completely unfair,” and accused Trump of trying to “politicize” the Pentagon.
But Defense Secretary Pete Hegses defended Trump’s Brown denial on Sunday.
“I have a lot of respect for CQ Brown. I’ve known him for a month. He’s an honorable man and not the right guy at this point,” Hegses said, “Fox News Sunday.” He spoke in an interview with
Hegseth announced separately on Friday that it was requesting the appointment of Judge Advocates General, commonly known as Jags, for the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Asked about searching for JAG exchanges during an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” Hegseth said, “I want a lawyer who doesn’t exist so that I can give constitutional advice and don’t try to put anything in a hindrance.”
“It’s time for fresh blood, so we’ll open those positions to a wider set and merit-based process to find the best possible lawyers to lead the Army, Air Force and Navy,” he said. I added later. “There’s nothing about purges. There’s nothing illegal.”
Reid, a top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, denounced the move to replace Jags, saying in an interview with ABC News, “If you’re trying to break the law, the first thing you do is exclude you.” lawyer.”
“We’ve been a very dangerously undermining military values and the effects are already felt,” he continued, referring to jugs and brown. “Those who question whether they should stay, talented leaders wonder if they should leave. That’s the beginning of the very serious degradation of the military and the politicization of the military. .”
Working with Republicans
In an interview on Sunday, longtime Trump critic Booker targeted the president for not expressing his interest in working with Democrats on issues such as inflation.
“This is what a powerful president does. He is elected without a mission, without a popularity vote and says, ‘I want to work with the Democrats'” home to lower prices.
“But he didn’t do that in the strong chairman’s way. He began issuing these executive orders, none of which had anything to do with the price reduction,” Booker said. Ta. Trump has signed an executive order on tariffs, claiming that it will benefit the American economy, but economists have argued that higher costs will ultimately be passed on to consumers. .
Democrats approached the first few weeks of the Trump administration with multiple rhetorical strategies. Some Democrats have argued that parties must be selective when choosing to fight the administration, while others rhetoric that Trump is leading the country towards a “constitutional crisis.” I relied on.
When asked if Trump was an effective message to frame Trump as a threat to democracy, Booker didn’t respond directly, instead saying that Democrats would “talk about what’s going on with Americans.” It should be.”
“I’m sitting with 46 other Senate Democrats. They’re united in this fight, working with the state attorney general, working with the governor, stopping Donald Trump from violating the Constitution, and Violating separation of power, violating civil servants, violating civil servants, violating laws and many other things we do,” he said when asked about his perspective once more.
Booker also continues to develop budget plans in the House and Senate, taking responsibility for potential closures at Republican feet, and that the GOP controls both the White House and both Congresses. I emphasized it.
He argued that Republicans were actually working to shut down the government.
“They are already showing they want to shut down the government. They are trying to shut down the Department of Education. They are trying to shut down the USAID,” he said. “They have power. They won the election. They need to continue with the government.”
