GOP Chairmen Brush Off Call for Immediate Hearings on Firings of Top Military Leaders
Military.com | By Rebecca Kheel
Published March 04, 2025 at 4:33pm ET
An urgent plea by five former defense secretaries -- including Lloyd Austin, who stepped down in January -- for Congress to immediately hold hearings on the recent and unexplained firings of top military officers by the Trump administration appears likely to go unanswered.
In the letter, the former top Pentagon civilian leaders said they were "deeply alarmed" by the firings, which they called reckless, and feared they were carried out for "purely partisan reasons" to politicize the military. Any hearings on the firings of the Joint Chiefs chairman, top Navy officer and others by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would likely be held by Congress' armed services committees, which are tasked with oversight of the military.
But asked Tuesday about the former Pentagon chiefs' appeal, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., said that he is not interested in holding hearings on the issue, despite the alarm rung by past defense secretaries.
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