Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) says that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth faces “a reckoning” in the post-election lame-duck Congress and is questioning whether President Trump will be able to get the Pentagon funded if Hegseth remains in his job.…
The teleprompter is certainly not as important as the flag pins, the red tie, the red hats and all the other visuals of the MAGA movement. But it offers an interpretive key to the moment.