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Dem blasts Pentagon during Hegseth hearing: 'They refuse to follow the law'
May 12, 2026
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Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, slammed the Pentagon for refusing to follow the law when it comes to briefing members of Congress.As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was testifying before a House budget committee on Tuesday, the Rhode Island senator spoke to reporters about the Pentagon's refusal to brief both Democrats and Republicans on military operations.Reed insisted that the Defense Department has not been briefing members frankly, on anything.I'm also, including my Republican colleagues, [DOD] just refuses to give us any meaningful data.
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This narrative analysis was generated using the CoDataLab Global Intelligence Engine. Our proprietary AI scans thousands of cross-border sources to identify sentiment patterns, framing techniques, and potential media bias. While AI provides the data-driven foundation, our objective is to empower readers with additional context beyond the standard headline.The content displayed above is a structured summary designed for rapid information processing. For the full original report, please visit the source outlet.And they refuse even to follow the law, which requires reporting to us in a certain number of days, Reed said, according to Roll Call's Mark Satter.Jack Reed predicts if Democrats take the Senate in November, the Armed Services panel will investigate the recent slate of high-profile Pentagon firings, Satter added. At the House appropriations hearing, Hegseth pushed back on questions about the cost of the war in Iran, saying the Pentagon would share what we can when it's relevant and required.
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