Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Sunday went after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying the military “could not do its job” without “the women who serve.”

“Well, this is the least qualified secretary of Defense in our nation's history, and he's questioning the ability of the women who actually qualified to their — to do their jobs. The female Rangers, the females that graduated from SEAL school, have met those highest standards,” Duckworth, an Army veteran, told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.”

“And, by the way, he is obfuscating a little bit because there are different male standards. The standard for a 45-year-old man is not the same as an 18-year-old man. So he doesn't actually talk about that. He has long sought to push women out of the military. And, frankly, our

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