EXCLUSIVE: Senate Republicans laud Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon leadership: He’s been “remarkably effective”

A pair of veteran Senate Republicans praised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership at the helm of the Pentagon.

Hegseth has faced an onslaught from the liberal media and Pentagon leakers since his confirmation hearings to lead the U.S. Armed Forces under President Donald Trump.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) told the Washington Reporter that Hegseth has been instrumental in ensuring the enactment of the Trump administration’s agenda.

“Secretary Hegseth has been remarkably effective in fulfilling President Trump’s agenda — and that’s why he’s under attack by leakers and the liberal press,” Cotton said.

“We need his leadership at the Pentagon to keep America safe,” he added.

Sen. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) joined Cotton in his praise of President Trump’s top warfighter. Banks told the Reporter that, under President Trump’s and Hegseth’s leadership, we are seeing a reinvigoration of our Armed Forces recruitment.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s leadership we’ve seen the largest military recruitment surge in decades,” Banks said. “Our country is safer and more prepared than it ever was under Joe Biden.”

“I’m proud to stand with President Trump and Secretary Hegseth,” Banks added.

Democrats and the liberal media have been hounding after Hegseth since the “SignalGate” controversy that saw several Biden-era intelligence officials with egg on their faces.

It was revealed by the Reporter that President Joe Biden’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Avril Haines, used the encrypted messaging app Signal “all the time and on her personal phone,” according to multiple career employees.

Biden’s DNI using Signal on her personal phone is only the tip of the iceberg. High-level CIA staffers who worked for Biden regularly shared sensitive but unclassified information using Signal with people who did not work in the administration, as the Reporter previously covered.