Speaking Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were attempting “to politicize the Department of Defense” by firing top ...

President Donald Trump said during his first term, now-Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth would call him and advocate on ...

Sen. Jack Reed, ranking Democrat on Armed Services Committee, said Trump’s purge of senior Pentagon leaders is a threat to the nonpartisan nature of the military.

Donald Trump's first “Friday Night Massacre” targeted inspectors general and his second targeted judge advocates general. The war on accountability continues.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked by Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream about the recent firing of top lawyers for the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force—a move that has sparked backlash and raised ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists President Donald Trump ’s abrupt ... “He is the commander in chief of the armed forces.” Still, Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the ranking ...

The Republican senator who salvaged Pete Hegseth’s chances of becoming President Donald ... according to CNN. Democratic Senator Jack Reed, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview on Sunday ... approach we want to take,” Mr. Hegseth said. But Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Armed Services ...

"They want everyone in DOD beholden to the president," Reed told "This Week ... And, apparently, what Trump and [Defense Secretary Pete] Hegseth are trying to do is to politicize the Department ...

"It's the beginning of a very, very serious degradation of the military and politicization of the military," he said.