{"id":108675,"date":"2025-01-26T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/democratic-sen-elissa-slotkin-explains-why-she-voted-against-hegseths-confirmation\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T18:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T18:03:47","slug":"democratic-sen-elissa-slotkin-explains-why-she-voted-against-hegseths-confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/democratic-sen-elissa-slotkin-explains-why-she-voted-against-hegseths-confirmation\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin explains why she voted against Hegseth&#8217;s confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-26\/Untitled%20design%20-%202025-01-26T120411.266.png\" alt><figcaption>Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin explained why she voted against confirming Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth, a former Fox News host, was sworn into the role Saturday following a hair-thin vote in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin told &#8220;This Week&#8221; co-anchor Martha Raddatz she had not been confident Hegseth would be more loyal to the Constitution than he would be to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He couldn&#8217;t unambiguously say that he will push back if the president asked him to do something that wasn&#8217;t constitutional, and that, to me, is why I couldn&#8217;t confirm him,&#8221; Slotkin said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of other things in his background I don&#8217;t like, but I look at what is the strategic and irreversible threats to our democracy, and that&#8217;s using the uniform military in ways that violate the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin explained why she voted against confirming Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; on Sunday. Hegseth, a former Fox News host, was sworn into the role Saturday following a hair-thin vote in the Senate. Slotkin told<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/democratic-sen-elissa-slotkin-explains-why-she-voted-against-hegseths-confirmation\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}