Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee are expressing concern over the delay in receiving the FBI background check report for Trump's embattled defense secretary nominee, causing frustration and raising questions about the thoroughness of the investigation.
Democrats have expressed concern over the delay and how thorough the report on Trump ’s embattled defense secretary pick will be.’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, was transmitted late Friday to the leading members of the Senate Armed Services Committee , according to two sources with direct knowledge of the report, just days ahead of his Tuesday confirmation hearing.
Kelly, like other Democrats on the Armed Services Committee interviewed by NBC News, said he would prefer to see the report before the hearing, especially after Hegseth’s team told most Democrats that he would only be available to meet after the hearing. A Trump transition official called the complaints “partisan blustering designed to slow down the confirmation process at a time when it’s incredibly critical that President Trump has his national security team in place on Day One.”
According to an aide to a senator who sits on multiple high-profile committees, Hegseth is the only nominee who has declined an invitation to meet with them. “It’s the art of the jam,” this aide told NBC News. “And we have not had a SecDef nominee where people are concerned about the FBI background check in at least two decades. This is standard stuff,” the aide added. “I would have been shocked to hear someone ask the question, ‘Do we have Esper’s background check? Or Austin? Or Ash Carter?’”
In the case of Veterans for Freedom, Republican megadonor Paul Singer, one of the top financial backers of the group, had ordered a financial audit, a forensic accounting, at the organization in 2009 after it ran out of money under Hegseth’s leadership, according to a former Veterans for Freedom employee.
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