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华盛顿讯——来自弗吉尼亚州的民主党参议员蒂姆·凯恩周日表示，在特朗普第二届政府期间多名高级军官陆续离开军方后，国会两党或支持为五角大楼的人事解雇设置约束机制。
近几个月来部分高级军官离职一事引发了人们对五角大楼人事变动的质疑。曾指挥突袭击毙奥萨马·本·拉登行动的退役海军上将比尔·麦克雷文上周在《大西洋月刊》撰文称，国防部长皮特·赫格斯的解雇行为“确实存在重大风险，会让高级军官在提供最佳建议时过度谨慎，进而大幅增加军事误判的可能性”。
“我认为这种担忧并非毫无根据。我们也在为同样的事情感到担忧，”凯恩在接受《玛格丽特·布伦南本周访谈》节目采访时回应道。
作为参议院军事委员会成员的凯恩质疑赫格斯是否在“排挤直言不讳的人”，以培养一群“唯命是从的跟班”。他补充称，“看起来这位部长对陆军的打击最为严厉”。
“他曾在陆军服役。他觉得自己在陆军时期受到了不公正对待，这是他公开提及过的积怨，”凯恩说道。“因此，当看到陆军军官被迫离职时，我们不禁要问，这是出于个人恩怨，还是真的符合国家最佳利益？”
近期离职的高级军官中包括美国欧洲与非洲陆军司令部司令克里斯·多纳休将军，陆军方面称他将于7月2日“移交指挥权”。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻上周报道称，多纳休——这位也是2021年最后一名撤离阿富汗的美国士兵——曾招致赫格斯的不满，并已提交退役申请。
凯恩表示，关于多纳休的情况“存在大量疑问，却几乎没有答案”。
“他在我任职的军事委员会中广受好评。两党议员都对他评价极高，”凯恩说道。“因此，他被驱逐的消息让我们所有人都感到意外。我们目前尚未从五角大楼得到合理的解释。”
凯恩指出，国会正在推进年度国防政策法案，即《国防授权法》，该法案已于本月早些时候在军事委员会获得通过。在众议院，众议院军事委员会在其版本的国防政策法案中加入了一项条款，要求五角大楼领导人在高级军官被解雇后的五天内告知国会解雇原因。凯恩表示，参议院的法案“目前尚未有任何条款涉及这一情况”。
“但当我们在全院审议该法案时，我认为届时我们的部分疑问将得到解答，”凯恩说道。“如果我们需要进一步采取措施设置约束机制，你可能会看到两党都会支持这样做。”
多纳休的离职也引发了跨党派的反对，例如来自北卡罗来纳州的共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯，他称这是“国防部长又一次无心之失，他带领五角大楼的行事风格是兄弟情谊式的虚张声势，而非克制、谦逊和对世界上最精锐作战部队的审慎管理”。
“他对高级军事将领和晋升名单的偏执式微观管理，本质上是披着改革外衣的不安全感作祟，”蒂利斯在X平台上写道。“与其提拔真正能够胜任领导工作的成熟爱国者，他更热衷于清除他认为不够忠诚的人。”
Kaine says guardrails on Pentagon firings could see bipartisan support in Congress
June 28, 2026 / 1:09 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia said Sunday that following a string of high-level officers exiting the military during the second Trump administration, guardrails on Pentagon firings could see bipartisan support in Congress.
The departure of some senior military officers in recent months has sparked questions about changes at the Pentagon. Retired Admiral Bill McRaven, known for commanding the raid to take out Osama bin Laden, wrote in The Atlantic last week that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s firings “raise a real risk that senior officers will be overly cautious about providing their best advice and, therefore, that the chance for military miscalculation will grow dramatically.”
“I don’t think that concern is misplaced. We’re worried about the same thing,” Kaine responded on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
Kaine, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, questioned whether Hegseth is “pushing out the truth tellers” to surround himself with “yes men.” He added that “it looks like the secretary is coming down hardest on the Army.”
“He served in the Army. He felt like he wasn’t treated well by the Army, that’s a grudge he’s carried that he’s described publicly,” Kaine said. “And so, when you see Army officers forced out, you got to wonder, is this a personal thing, or is it really what’s best for the nation?”
Among the latest high-level officers to exit the military is Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, who the Army said is set to “relinquish command” on July 2. CBS news reported last week that Donahue, who is also known for being the last American soldier on the ground in Afghanistan in 2021, had earned the ire of Hegseth and submitted his retirement papers.
Kaine said on Donahue, there are “a lot of questions and very few answers.”
“He was very well regarded in the Armed Services Committee, where I sit. Both sides of the aisle thought really highly of him,” Kaine said. “And so the news that he was being ushered out caught us all by surprise. And we don’t yet have good answers from the Pentagon.”
Kaine noted that Congress is working on the annual defense policy bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which advanced out of the Armed Services Committee earlier this month. In the lower chamber, the House Armed Services Committee adopted a provision for its version of the defense policy bill that would require Pentagon leaders to inform Congress why senior military officials were fired within five days. Kaine said in the Senate’s legislation, there’s “nothing in the bill at this point that would address this situation.”
“But when we bring it up on the floor, I think by then we’ll have some of our questions answered,” Kaine said. “And if we need to go farther to put some guardrails in place, you’ll probably find bipartisan support to do that.”
Donahue’s exit sparked some pushback from across the aisle, like from GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who called it “yet another unforced error from a Secretary leading the Pentagon with bro-culture bravado rather than restraint, humility and careful stewardship of the finest fighting force in the world.”
“His paranoid micromanagement of senior military leaders and promotion lists is pure insecurity dressed up as reform,” Tillis wrote on X. “He is more interested in purging people he perceives as insufficiently loyal than empowering proven patriots who can actually lead.”
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