Maggie Goodlander DESTROYS Hegseth With His Own Words in Armed Services

In a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Rep. Maggie Goodlander confronts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with a question built on his own words — recorded a decade earlier. The hearing marks the first time Hegseth has publicly answered questions from Congress since the United States entered the Iran war. Twenty-five billion dollars already spent. Eight consecutive failed audits at the Pentagon. A $1.5 trillion budget request on the table. Goodlander presents a sequence: Hegseth's repeated sworn promise to account for every taxpayer dollar, his inability to provide a basic cost breakdown for the Iran war, and a bedrock principle of American military law — that service members follow only lawful orders. When Hegseth calls the principle a partisan attack, Goodlander reveals she is quoting him directly. From April 12, 2016.