{"id":1420946,"date":"2022-04-05T22:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420946"},"modified":"2022-04-05T22:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:14:40","slug":"im-embarrassed-by-your-leadership-matt-gaetz-gives-lloyd-austin-an-earful-over-militarys-wokeism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-embarrassed-by-your-leadership-matt-gaetz-gives-lloyd-austin-an-earful-over-militarys-wokeism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Embarrassed By Your Leadership!\u2019: Matt Gaetz Gives Lloyd Austin An Earful Over Military\u2019s \u2018Wokeism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fim-embarrassed-by-your-leadership-matt-gaetz-gives-lloyd-austin-an-earful-over-militarys-wokeism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420946&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1236030798.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) unloaded on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during Tuesday\u2019s House Armed Services Committee hearing, saying he was \u201cembarrassed\u201d by the senior military official\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz mentioned the requested military budget \u2014 some $773 billion \u2014 and suggested that perhaps that money ought to be used to take corrective actions after what he argued was a series of \u201cblown calls\u201d made by military leadership in recent months.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SecDef<\/a>: &#8220;The fact that you&#8217;re embarrassed by your country. I\u2019m sorry for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz: \u201cI&#8217;m embarrassed by YOUR leadership! I\u2019m not embarrassed for my country. It&#8217;s disgraceful that you would sit here &#038; conflate your failures with those of uniformed service members.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mUfRNbY8Rt\">pic.twitter.com\/mUfRNbY8Rt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMattGaetz\/status\/1511381260983275530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou guys have been blowing a lot of calls lately on matters of strategy, Mr. Secretary. You guys told us that Russia couldn\u2019t lose, you told us the Taliban couldn\u2019t immediately win, and so I guess I\u2019m wondering, what in the $773 billion that you\u2019re requesting today is going to help you make assessments that are accurate in the face of so many blown calls?\u201d Gaetz asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve seen what\u2019s in our budget. You\u2019ve seen how the budget matches the strategy and so I\u2019ll let that speak for itself,\u201d Austin replied.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz continued to push and Austin pushed back, as the two continued to talk over each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re behind in hypersonics, we failed to deter Russia. Last year, China \u2014\u201d Gaetz added, and Austin interrupted to ask what Gaetz thought would be the best way to evaluate \u201chypersonics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re own people brief us that we are behind and China is winning. Are you aware of the briefings we get on hypersonics?\u201d Gaetz asked, prompting a visibly annoyed Austin to reply, \u201cI\u2019m certainly aware of briefings we give to Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz then pivoted to address the military\u2019s recent focus on social issues, suggesting that woke culture was distracting from more important things like strategy, saying, \u201cWe got time to embrace Critical Race Theory at West Point, to embrace socialism at the National Defense University, to do mandatory pronoun training \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, this is the most capable, this is the most combat critical force in the world. It has been so, and it will be so going forward,\u201d Austin pushed back, and Gaetz responded, \u201cNot if we continue down this path. Not if we embrace socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that you\u2019re embarrassed by your country? I\u2019m sorry for that,\u201d Austin said then, but Gaetz interrupted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m embarrassed by your leadership! I\u2019m not embarrassed for my country,\u201d he said. \u201cI wish we were not losing to China \u2026 that is so disgraceful that you would sit here and conflate your failures with the failures of the uniformed service members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz turned his attention once more to what he said were the military leadership\u2019s \u201cblown calls,\u201d concluding, \u201cYou guys said that Russia would overrun Ukraine in 36 days, you said the Taliban would be kept at bay for months, you totally blew those calls and maybe we would be better at them if the National Defense University actually worked a little more on strategy and a little less on wokeism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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