Floodgates open for Trump’s Pentagon nominees
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By CLAUDIA GRISALES AND COREY DICKSTEIN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: November 9, 2017
WASHINGTON – Even as Sen. John McCain began his battle against brain cancer in July, the Arizona Republican and powerful chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee was quietly waging another kind of war.
That month, President Donald Trump’s Pentagon nominees going before McCain’s committee came to a screeching halt, triggering a more than 3-month drought for the effort. The committee didn’t hear from another slate of new candidates for top military posts until this month.
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