Hegseth and Collins' push for cutting veterans health benefits alarms servicemembers and veterans groups

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Source: CNN

Hegseth, now Trump's nominee to serve as secretary of defense, had been a vocal and persistent advocate for veterans having unfettered access to private health care, rather than having to go through the VA to keep their benefits. He's also lobbied for policies that would restrict VA care and believes veterans should ask for fewer government benefits.

"We want to have full choice where veterans can go wherever they want for care," Hegseth told Trump on speakerphone as Shulkin listened, according to Shulkin's 2019 memoir.

Trump's pick to serve as the next VA secretary, Doug Collins, has also expressed support for greater privatization of veteran health care, which advocates characterize as giving veterans greater choice over their doctors. If veterans "want to go back to their own doctors, then so be it," he told Fox News last month.

For Shulkin, a rare "holdover" from President Barack Obama's administration to Trump's, this was "the worst-case scenario" for veteran health care, and one he had repeatedly warned Hegseth against.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/07/politics/pete-hegseth-doug-collins-veterans-health-care/index.html

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"I've seen him dragged away not a few times but multiple times. To have him at the Pentagon would be scary."

New York Times: Pete Hegseth's mother wrote him an email in 2018 accusing him of mistreating women https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/30/politics/pete-hegseth-mother-email-new-york-times/index.html


A previously undisclosed whistle-blower report on Hegseth's tenure as the president of Concerned Veterans for America, from 2013 until 2016, describes him as being repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity--to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization's events.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/pete-hegseths-secret-history

Hegseth was one of 12 national guardsmen flagged as a potential insider threat and removed from the group providing security for the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-insider-threat-biden-inauguration/

Woman accused Hegseth of raping her at a 2017 Republican women's conference in Monterey, California
https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/news_blog/police-report-details-allegations-that-secretary-of-defense-nominee-pete-hegseth-raped-a-woman-in/article_cc7c633e-a7c7-11ef-9e13-af6d1aa8ed78.html

Hegseth seemed to have played a major role in bankrupting the Vets For Freedom by using funds for endless social events and parties https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5017946-pentagon-pick-hegseth-misconduct/

Pete Hegseth accused of chanting 'kill all Muslims' on a drunken night out https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-trump-allegations-history-b2657456.html

Pete Hegseth Published Column Saying Sex with Unconscious Woman Isn't Rape https://www.yahoo.com/news/pete-hegseth-published-column-saying-225600849.html

Pete Hegseth accused of being "white supremacist" by civil rights lawyer https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-white-supremacist-trump-1986435

Trump Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth proudly boasted of never washing his hands: 'Germs are not real' 'Germs are not a real thing.' https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-hand-washing-video-viral-secretary-defense-trump-1985448


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Pete Hegseth Falsely Claims He Was 'Completely Cleared' On Sex Assault Allegation https://www.yahoo.com/news/pete-hegseth-falsely-claims-completely-220040788.html

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Trump's defense pick openly fantasized about military attack on 'domestic enemies': report https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-book

A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump's nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/pete-hegseths-secret-history

Hegseth implied that women contracting HIV from partners with known histories of sexual promiscuity bear some responsibility for contracting sexually transmitted diseases, even if their partner deliberately conceals their diagnosis.
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