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is scheduled to appear Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Hegseth, an Army veteran and former Fox News correspondent, has spent the last several weeks meeting with Republican ...

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger F. Wicker, Mississippi Republican, said after the exchange that Mr. Hegseth has “supervised far more people than the average United States senator.” ...