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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) again called for the firing of top Trump administration officials as the retiring Republican continues to clash with his own party.

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  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Apparently few remember, but Thom Tillis voted to confirm Pete Hegseth, allowing JD Vance to come in and resolve the tie in Hegseth’s favor:

    [Hegseth’s] confirmation was threatened by Senator Thom Tillis, who told Senate majority leader John Thune the day before that he would not vote for Hegseth on the basis of his sexual assault allegations. Persuaded by Vance, Tillis expressed support for Hegseth on X minutes before the vote. His confirmation was the second in US history to be decided by a vice president

    All Dems voted no, and all Republican senators but Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitch McConnell voted to confirm.

    Had Thom Tillis stood his ground, we would have a different SecDef (yeah, I’m not endorsing that renamed “Secretary of War” shit) and possibly we would not be in Iran right now, Ukraine would have our full support, and our list of supposed undesirables in the military would not read like Hegseth’s personal Grindr profile. For starters.