Article originally appeared on dailycaller.com.
Democrats at Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing Tuesday repeatedly said that President Joe Biden’s Department of Defense (DOD) did not lower standards for women in the military, despite a long record of examples that it did.
Multiple Democratic senators, such as Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Democratic New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, said numerous times during the hearing that there were no lessened standards for women in the military. They denied that “quotas” existed based on gender, but multiple reports contradict these claims. Hegseth has made statements in the past against women serving in combat roles, but he recently changed his stance in the wake of his nomination.
“Women will have access to ground combat roles given the standards remain high,” Hegseth said during the hearing. “We’ll have a review to make sure standards have not been …
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