即将离任的参议员。汤姆·蒂利斯（Thom Tillis）共和党人，他表示，他对去年投票确认皮特·赫格塞斯担任国防部长感到遗憾，并在周一的《早安乔》节目中对五角大楼负责人的任期进行了严厉的评估。“总统称皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）完全脱离了中央选角--我同意这一点：他是一名演员。他不是经理，”蒂利斯告诉MS NOW。
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis R-N.C., said he regrets voting to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary last year, offering a blistering assessment of the Pentagon chief’s tenure on Monday’s“Morning Joe.”“The president referred to Pete Hegseth as right out of Central Casting — and I agree with that: He’s an actor. He’s not a manager,” Tillis told MS NOW.
蒂利斯去年投了关键一票确认赫格塞斯，他表示国务卿“没有证明对国防部有任何了解”。他指出，赫格塞斯继续关注军人的外表、仪容和美观，而不是战备状态。
Tillis, who cast a pivotal vote to confirm Hegseth last year, said the secretary has “not demonstrat[ed] any knowledge of the Department of Defense.”He pointed to Hegseth’s continued focus on the physical appearance, grooming and aesthetics of service members rather than operational readiness.
蒂利斯说：“他希望每个人都像他一样，每个人都像他一样训练，每个人都像他一样穿着制服。”“他没有抓住他的组织的全部要点。他专注于整个组织大约15%到20%的人，而没有表现出他控制着这个星球上最致命、最复杂的组织这一事实的真正了解。”蒂利斯提出批评之际，肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·马西敦促通过一项决议弹劾赫格塞斯，指控他在未经国会授权的情况下继续美国与伊朗的战争，以及其他“重罪和轻罪”，违反了《战争权力决议》。蒂利斯表示他将支持这样的决议。
“He wants everybody to look like him, everybody to train like him, everybody to be in the uniform like him,” Tillis said. “He’s missing the whole point about his organization. He’s focusing on about maybe 15, 20% of the entire organization at the expense of demonstrating any real knowledge of the fact that he is in control of the most lethal, complicated organization arguably on the planet.”Tillis’ criticism comes as Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., presses a resolution to impeach Hegseth over allegations that he violated the War Powers Resolution by continuing the U.S. war with Iran without congressional authorization, among other “high crimes and misdemeanors.”Tillis has said he would support such a resolution.
在蒂利斯投票反对推进政府的人力资源后，这位北卡罗来纳州共和党人还谈到了他与唐纳德·特朗普总统的复杂关系去年，总统威胁要支持对他的初选挑战，即《一大美丽法案法案》。几周后，蒂利斯宣布他将在任期结束时退休。
The North Carolina Republican also addressed his complicated relationship with President Donald Trump After Tillis voted against advancing the administration’s H.R. 1, more widely known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, last year, the president threatened to back a primary challenge against him. Weeks later, Tillis announced he would retire at the end of his term.
蒂利斯在他的新书《如何失去朋友并对抗总统》中讲述了他与特朗普的更多历史，特朗普与这位参议员的关系长期以来一直在合作和对抗之间交替。他告诉MS NOW，他多次闭门反击特朗普。
In his new book, “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents,” Tillis recounts more of his history with Trump, whose relationship with the senator has long alternated between cooperation and confrontation. He told MS NOW that he repeatedly pushed back on Trump behind closed doors.
他说：“美妙的是……是我实际上勇敢地对抗总统的次数从未被报道过。”他认为，立法者应该能够与总统意见不一致，而不会让每一场争端都成为一场公开的政治斗争。
“The beauty … is the number of times that I’ve actually stood up to the president that never got reported,” he said, arguing that lawmakers should be able to disagree with a president without every dispute becoming a public political battle. Asked about Trump’s legacy, the two-term senator said it remains unsettled.
当被问及特朗普的遗产时，这位连任两届的参议员表示仍然悬而未决。他认为，总统仍然有机会在历史上留下积极的印记，但前提是他改变议程的实施方式和他所依赖的人。
He argued that the president still has an opportunity to leave a positive mark on history, but only if he changes both how his agenda is carried out and whom he relies on. “The president and I very seldom disagree on the what, but the how and who he has involved in implementation has to change,” Tillis said.
蒂利斯说：“总统和我很少在什么问题上意见不一，但他参与实施的方式和人员必须改变。”
For Tillis, that concern extends beyond Trump.
对蒂利斯来说，这种担忧超出了特朗普。他警告说，共和党已经偏离了一些传统原则，并说总统的最终遗产现在与共和党的遗产密不可分。
He warned that the Republican Party has strayed from some of its traditional principles and said the president’s eventual legacy is now inseparable from the party’s. “Why am I concerned with the president’s legacy? Because it’s the legacy of the Republican Party, and I’m concerned that we’ve become unmoored. We’ve gone away from some of our principles. We got to get back to that,” he told MS NOW.
“我为什么要关心总统的遗产？因为这是共和党的遗产，我担心我们已经失去了动力。我们已经偏离了我们的一些原则。我们必须回到这个问题上，”他告诉MS NOW。
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即将离任的参议员蒂利斯对Hegseth的关键投票感到遗憾：“他是一名演员。他不是经理”MS NOW
He’s not a manager’