
Senate Democrats said Monday that an FBI background check on Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, is missing information on sexual assault allegations that have fueled much of the opposition against him.
The FBI background check, which followed parameters set by the Trump transition team, may have defied standard protocol by not including interviews with Hegseth's ex-wives or the woman who accused him of sexual assault in a hotel room in 2017, according to senators on the Armed Services Committee.