Pete Hegseth launches astonishing attack on ex-Fox colleague: 'She hates Trump'

Pete Hegseth has deed retired astatine a Fox News writer who posted a missive sent to the defence caput from Congress questioning a location repairs bill. 

Fox News nationalist information analogous Jennifer Griffin, 56, posted a missive sent to Hegseth from Democrats connected the House Appropriations Committee, which asked the authorities authoritative to explicate wherefore helium required much than $130,000 for attraction enactment connected his government-furnished house.

Included successful the measure was a $49,000 petition for an 'emergency' overgarment job.

Hours aft the document was posted to X, Hegseth aggressively pushed backmost connected the study saying it was 'fake news,' alongside the assertion Griffin 'hates Trump'.

Hegseth, 44, besides claimed the behaviour from Griffin was 'not surprising,' adding that she and Democrats are the 'same thing.' 

The US Secretary of Defense claimed each the repairs helium requested for the government-furnished location were going to hap careless of who moved successful next.

'Any/all location repairs were going to hap nary substance who was moving successful - and were each initiated by DoD,' helium wrote connected X.

Hegseth added an further jab astatine the newsman from his erstwhile network, claiming the Democrats and Griffin 'don't attraction astir facts' due to the fact that 'they're conscionable Trump haters.' 

As defence secretary, Hegseth is granted the enactment to unrecorded successful authorities housing, however, it is much communal for radical successful specified positions to opt to unrecorded successful backstage housing, according to Military.com. 

The erstwhile defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, lived successful his ain location successful Great Falls, Virginia.

However, since Hegseth has taken the accidental to unrecorded successful the home, Democrats person demanded helium warrant wherefore helium needs the government-provided home, wherefore it needs to beryllium improved and however overmuch helium plans to wage successful rent.

'We cognize that galore work members and their families presently unrecorded successful unacceptable lodging conditions including houses with mold, pb paint, and different hazards,' the missive penned connected February 7 reads. 

'What committedness volition you marque to supply work members with a likewise precocious prime of lodging for themselves and their families?' 

As seen successful the report, the full outgo comes retired to $137,297 to amended the 4,000-square-foot government-furnished home.

In their letter, Democrats pointed retired that Hegseth volition gain an yearly income of $246,000 successful summation to the millions of dollars helium already has from his erstwhile vocation arsenic a Fox News host. 

Democrats are present asking Hegseth to reply their questions by February 21. 

The petition has go progressively politicized owed to the information that President Donald Trump and his 'first buddy' Elon Musk person been making drastic changes to the national authorities with purpose to trim national spending.

Musk and Trump are attempting to spot thousands of national workers connected administrative permission and program to chopped galore others that they judge are unnecessary - each successful a wide effort astatine redeeming wealth and making American payer dollars 'more meaningful.'

The president-elect tasked the Tesla CEO and Vivek Ramaswamy with cutting trillions of dollars successful national spending successful the coming years utilizing the recently developed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - which Musk leads.

And the brace person already been hard astatine enactment injecting their power successful to politics.

House DOGE Caucus Co-Chair Aaron Bean, exclusively revealed to DailyMail.com immoderate of the astir egregious authorities discarded projects national workers are approving - galore astatine monolithic costs to taxpayers.

'We're giving cocaine to animals to spot does it crook them transsexual?' the Republican lamented to DailyMail.com implicit the phone. 

He suggested akin government-funded studies request to beryllium halted by DOGE.

'It just, it's the craziest happening that you would ne'er walk your ain wealth on. But erstwhile agencies person wealth to burn, they volition walk wealth connected virtually everything,' Bean added.

The survey successful question, a decennary aged NIH experimentation titled 'Cocaine induces state-dependent learning of intersexual conditioning successful antheral Japanese quail' to find the patterns of birds utilizing cocaine.

That survey was fixed a US taxpayer-funded assistance worthy $875,000. 

This astir $1 cardinal taxpayer-funded survey recovered that cocaine usage tends to pb to riskier enactment - thing galore would accidental is 'common knowledge.'

A akin survey to measurement cocaine usage successful beagles was revealed by advocacy radical White Coat Waste Project successful caller years. That survey received implicit $2.3 cardinal dollars from the National Institute of Health.

Other wasteful projects successful the 'Festivus' report: A $10,000 for crystal skating resistance queens, a $12 cardinal Las Vegas pickleball analyzable task and $108,000 for connected a non-functioning, long-abandoned edifice successful the Caribbean - each courtesy of the US taxpayer.

The authoritative DOGE X relationship besides highlighted assorted U.S. authorities spending projects, galore of them absurd.

'What does the U.S. Government usage payer dollars for? "$6.9M studying ‘smart toilets’ that admit the user’s ‘anal print’ - $2.3M for the NIH to inject dogs with cocaine - $118,000 to survey if a metallic replica robot of Marvel Comics’ Thanos could truly drawback his fingers - $75,000 successful grants connected a Harvard survey connected lizards being blown disconnected trees with leafage blowers,"' the connection said.

In summation to handing retired assistance wealth for ridiculous studies and remote, useless hotels, Bean told DailyMail.com different handouts, similar subsidies, should beryllium re-examined.