Sen. Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, imposed a hold on military nominees which now imperils President Biden’s choice for the Pentagon’s No. 3 job, Derek Chollet.
. The dispute casts a shadow over the largely bipartisan cooperation that characterizes support for defense spending and many military initiatives.
When Chollet served as a senior Pentagon policy official under then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel during the Obama administration, he often traveled as part of Hagel’s entourage on foreign trips, providing input on the U.S. response to issues including China’s military rise and the violent ascent of the Islamic State.Hagel, a onetime Republican senator from Nebraska, said that he saw in Chollet — a fellow Nebraskan — a combination of expertise and modesty.
Eric Edelman, who was undersecretary of defense for policy during the Republican George W. Bush administration, said that while Chollet had served under Democratic presidents, they both understood that “there’s much more continuity than difference between administrations because they’re all wrestling with the same problems.”
oversees a sprawling network of regional and topical offices and several agencies. It is known for being a particularly grueling position given the urgency and unpredictability of military operations and global security threats.“There’s nothing that doesn’t eventually land, or initially come out of, that office that DOD does,” Hagel said, using an acronym for the Department of Defense.
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