On Friday, Donald Trump fired Chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff CQ Brown, along with several other top Pentagon officials.
Now, Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, has a question for the man tapped to succeed him, Retired Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Caine.
Quote — “will he have the ability to speak truth to power?”
Senator Reed is the top democrat on the Armed Services Committee.
The Trump administration says it wants a military built on meritocracy. Critics say it’s building one governed by political loyalty.
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