How would you rate the overall job performance of your current U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense?

He is singularly unqualified, discriminates against women and people of color with impunity, and wages war like it's a video game.

Hegseth is inept, a coward, and traitor to the US.

The department of defense is getting more corrupt not less

The Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Defense have not been apolitical (showing favoritism to President Trump’s priorities) and have set back the U.S. Defense Strategy. The U.S. Military should be focusing on large-scale combat operations, not focusing on counterterrorism and the border crisis. There has been an extreme loss of confidence in the administration’s capability to provide competent guidance, defense priorities, and ethical decision-making.

He’s disregarded many of the important rules and parts of the constitution, including not sharing sensitive information and not bombing potentially peaceful boats.

He is a bumbling manchild who thinks war is a Call of Duty game. He is racist and misogynistic and not qualified to do the job. He leaked sensitive information.

This person in this position was appointed by President Trump who is known to appoint loyalists and sycophants who are generally unqualified for the positions they hold.

Same reason as the last because I have no real idea of what they're doing, I have barely any idea of what they do without having to do extensive research. I think that the new gen will connect us back being more transparent in a way that I don't feel like I should have to deep dive into the information to know for sure and I can trust them again. I have very..."radical" you could say, ideas when it comes to the government honestly. Think we need a whole reset lol but I don't know if we have enough resources, time, cooperation and belief.

He is unqualified, impulsive, and has no prior experience. He is corrupt.

This whole administration is a **** show. None of these people are qualified.

He is not qualified and if the Senate was not “ yes men/women for the President he would not be in the office.

The Department of Defense has turned on the American people with their use of ICE agents. People have been imprisoned or killed without due process and the Department of Defense has done little to stop this.

The entire department of defense is a front for terrorism around the globe. This person is complicit in the murder of children and should be thrown into jail for life.

I don't know much about him but I feel like the current administration is failing especially when it comes to matters of defense and conflict.

Pete Hegseth has shown himself to be dangerously incompetent. Every Trump cabinet member is nothing but an incompetent, unqualified boot licker.

The DOD has been kinda *** under Hegseth, so I don't believe the dep secdef is doing a good job by association

Early political involvement

Feinberg is a major Republican donor.[21] In 2016, he served on the Trump Economic Advisory Council during Donald Trump's presidential campaign, donated nearly $1.5 million to pro-Trump PACs, and co-hosted a $50,000-per-person fundraising dinner for Trump and the Republican National Committee.[22][23]

In February 2017, the New York Times reported that President Trump would give Feinberg a role in the White House review of US intelligence agencies.[24] On May 11, 2018, Trump named Feinberg to head the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.[25]

Feinbe…  Read morerg and his spouse, Gisela (née Sanchez), contributed $715,600 to Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.[26]

Pete Hegseth is a blubbering idiot who can't even do a pull up. The vast majority of the military does not respect him from my understanding, which is catastrophic in the case of a war breaking out.

no one in the U.S is doing their work like the citizens wants them too

Illegal military interactions without congressional approval.

Because they are actively being involved in illegal actions.

Neither the Secretary of Defense nor Deputy Secretary of Defense are qualified for this position. Even they know this themselves! I am deeply saddened by the ineptness and trivial "Reality Showlike " juvenile experience assembled and representing this This US Citizen! WMB

The current administration does not seem to have a direct objective on how to handle certain issues residing in the state.

He keeps firing the people who know what they are doing.

He is wildly unqualified for his job, and cares more about photo ops of lifting weights with troops than running the DoD in an effective manner.

I just think they are responding out of emtion rather than logical reason.

He is woefully unqualified for this job and is actively destroying our military.

One. They are illegally calling themselves the Department of War. Two. The guy couldn't answer a straight question to save his life in his hearing in front of Congress. Pretty much admitted they don't talk to the president and just making it up as they go along guess his policy from his social media posts.

Our entire government is a mess. I truly don't think anyone really "cares" for the American people.

I gave this rating because our scretary of defense is very reliable and here for more then just defensing us against other countries.

The individuals in the Trump Administration are untrustworthy and incapable of doing their jobs without prejudice.

The Defense Dept personnel is up Trump's behind and will probably obey every illegal order given by Secretary Pete H. that comes from Trump. What Pete Hegseth is doing to Mark Kelley is horrible.

He's not prepared or educated enough on the subject and resorts to violence too quickly (in my opinion I'm not super educated on the topic)

The military is currently acting inappropriately and against traditional norms

Cutting departments, only keeping on loyalists, their ridiculous spending, no planning or critical thinking

I can only base this off of Pete Hegseth by assuming Dep. Sec. is a yes-man and unqualified seeing as his boss is severely unqualified.

Stephen Feinberg has a private-sector background and has no experience in the military, national security, or policy. His lack of defense experience makes him ill-prepared to help run the Pentagon that is now a clown show with Hegseth at the helm. He is a shining example of the new spoils system Trump has put in place in DC. He eliminated 5,400 civilian positions as part of his reduction ordered by Trump - why does he get to keep his civilian official appointment, but no one else does? He did this in the same way he would layoff employees in the private sector rather than giving national defe…  Read morense civil servants the respect they deserve. He and Hegseth have mishandled classified information such as sharing sensitive operational details in unsecured group chats to members of the media. Members of the military are frustrated with both of their leadership and have no faith in those that are giving out the orders. The Pentagon prides itself on being non-partisan and yet everything it has done this last year has been partisan: replacing career military and civilian leaders with political appointees and allies of Trump. He's helping make American Nazi Germany.

Starting wars and bombing countries. World peace should always be the main goal

They are below average because they are bombing other countries for no reason other then they want to take of the world

We don't need to go invade other countries right now. We need to focus on our own estates first but no matter who the president chooses, we will never have a leader that will care about the American people.

The guy is a numbskull, alpha-male wannabe and dangerously underqualified for his position

Considering that peaceful protestors are being killed every single day, on top of focusing on other countries instead of our own, I'd say the entire government system is failing to perform even at average.

Too many reports of him being outwardly racist and unprofessional at work. When there are numerous reports such as those, I do not want someone like that representing America on such a public stage.

N/A, other than personal bias, I haven't seen much of the news.

He should never have received this assignment. He is grossly under qualified and lacks the temperament, integrity and respect to fill this position. He is a joke.

Hegseth is incompetent and a hot head. Scary that he runs the military

Hegseth has limited military background, no qualifications other than pro-Trump news caster, and has not shown any ability to perform the job, other than to advance the Trump agenda.

SEC DEF. Pete Hegseth is unqualified for the position and has been linked to white-nationalist, sympathetic groups. He has already been connected to leaks in Pentagon Security with the so called "Signal-Gate".

3/10 using the national guard against U.S cities is unconstitutional

He is completely unqualified and lacks the experience and expertise needed to lead the Department of Defense. He prioritizes political ideology and loyalty over efficient policy and national security.

He has done almost nothing to help America as a whole and has only served the money.

They're basically a puppet for the president with limited qualifications of their own. I don't support cronyism in government.

Between the lack of experience, poor decision making, and consistent intel leaks, its hard to imagine any justification for him holding his current position, whether you think he's committed war crimes or not.

Jobs are low and people getting deporteed is not the reason and will not help

Hegseth has leaked classified info and is heavily under qualified for his position.

He isn't qualified for his position and was giving his position because he bent the knee to Trump

School shootings, and violence towards immigrants.

Trump's personal vendettas and biases are his apparent only concern.

Increased expenditure when we're not even at war. The military standards that have been implemented are founded in bigotry. The military Intel that has been leaked has been a complete failure and downright embarrassing. We should not be drone striking boats in the middle of international waters (or anywhere) because we think they have drugs. The punishment for drug possession should not be death.

He is a business man with no military past. Believes women should not have the right to vote and kisses the floor trump walks on.

Our defense team is becoming more stupid because their are more criminal cases in 2025 and nothing is being taking into hands.

I haven’t heard much about him but based on overall performance of our defense policy, I wouldn’t rate him high.

In less than 100 days he has had 2 major IPsec failures that would get any other military member court martialed

The only thing he has done is rename things and cause political division

Doing a great job to ensure a strong and prosperous future for the military.

horrible person who follows maga blindly and acts against how someone in his position should. "tepid legality" is essential to the 14th amendment and killing mexicans is less important than preserving rights.

Because of the recent peace agreements brought up between Israel and Palestine as well as the planned one for Ukraine and Russia. I believe they are doing a good job. But most importantly we are not at war.

He recently passed a policy where journalists will be required to take a pledge to report in the Pentagon where every article written (even those which have disclosed information) must be approved. I think it was extremely unnecessary to rename the Department of Defense to Department of War?

He has no empathy, sympathy, or someone I would want to serve under. He will toss you out and left you to die.

He's an alcoholic, woman-abusing war criminal who has compromised national security by being reckless with top secret information by sharing it on unsecured channels with a random person in it!!!

Pete Hegseth literally has the iron cross tattooed on his body. As far as I know he's affiliated with pro-Nazi's and Neo Nazi's, he's also making a fool out of the military and is actively weakening it by making it harder for experienced people of certain race or gender to join.

He presents himself as doing a lot while he fails to really do much. I'm not a big fan of his ego.

because i feel that a lot of injustice had been happing lately

The current policies of the Department of Defense (now called Department of War) only arbitrarily detract from major issues without truly addressing any problems. These strategies prop up a poorly performing administration by pulling away from civil issues that matter more.

They are clearly a product and puppet of the current president's agenda, which I have disagreed with already.

He’s a Nazi alcoholic who can’t keep secrets, a crucial thing for somebody overseeing the military.

He's a Fox News anchor with miniscule military experience. Paired with his drinking problem, he was not a viable candidate for this position from the get-go. Also their is no comprehensible way you can defend the deployment of the national guard on literal civilians in LA, the opposite of that component of the military's given purpose.

we are keeping the borders safe, and our airspace even safer

Becuase there hasnt been any big terroist things happening

Renaming the department of defense to department of war is unnecessary. Their job is to defend the U.S. against threats, not aid a mass genocide which was not against us.

He leaked war plans, and he's just buns, a bunch to go off of

I think the government spends money on things they don't need

Focused on the wrong things that target overall morale and efficiency of the troops.

Because i think they do a pretty good job most of the time.

Guy is below average. I don’t believe he has done anything meaningful besides writing books and just living the moment.

An alcoholic predator doesn't belong in any office

He's failing miserably at his primary responsibility, which is protecting the Constitution.

He is unqualified in all aspect and is turning the military into a political instrument.

Repeatedly he has leaked private plans while there were troops on the ground and in most aspects is just unqualified for the position

There could be fewer blowing up suspects out of the water, and we don't even know if they are doing illegal activity.

We are building the military better then ever so we can be the most military advanced country in the world.

they haven't been doing the best job since we almost had world war 3

i think that there have been many new problems created. i think we send way too much foreign aid to fund the gaza genocide, where the estimated number of deaths is over 100,000. the weapons and money used to kill innocent palestinians is backed by the US government, which is shameful.

He's corrupted and a puppet used to babble the ideas of those who fund him.

Our secretary of Defense goes above and beyond to secure our safety.

He is grossly unqualified, lacks any understanding of even basic OPsec measures, and cares more about his appearance in interviews than his actual job.

Steve Feinberg refused to state the obvious truth that Russia invaded Ukraine. You can't trust someone that supports an enemy of the US attacking an Ally of the US

Doing great at slimming the defense budget but is being short-sighted on multiple defense initiatives.

Bringing back respect to our military. Being involved and getting to know our troops. Loves our country and the men and women who are serving. Has served himself and knows it from the bottom up.

Hegseth was recently involved in a scandal that could have endangered national security

This dude went to a bar, blasted drunk, and screamed, "Kill all muslims". Get him outta there.

There is something suspicious about the trump administration changing the name of the department of defense to department of war

He encourages Trump's ideas and bill passings that only hurt americans

U.S. President: Average – Mixed results with some successes (e.g., infrastructure, COVID recovery) but also challenges like inflation and divided politics.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense: Above Average – Solid handling of global defense issues, though some critiques on military withdrawals like Afghanistan.

U.S. Members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission: Average – Important work but sometimes criticized for delays or lapses in product recalls.

Strong defense and ridding the government of policies that do not enhance our military

He leaked PRIVATE MILITARY MOVEMENTS via a THIRD-PARTY MESSAGING APP because he added a journalist BY ACCIDENT. What? I cannot trust him to make decisions after that.

Disclosing classified information due to mismanagement, participating in distraction tactics like renaming the department of defense to the department of war.

Why are they sending troops to Oregon? Nothing happens there.

Mr. Hegseth is a clown and an embarrassment. Utterly unqualified. His sole goal appears to be to get women out of the military.

Pete Hegseth is unqualified, an addict, corrupt, and a disgrace to the National Guard.

We are actually using the us power against world threats.

our defense is being changed many times and we are being broken down to much and too many times.

we are sending military on innocent people because they were not born in America do you here how pathetic that sounds?

Committing acts of war without congressional approval

Needs to take a step away from the bottle and leave the job open to someone who is more than a wacked out tv personality. How this man slept his way to the top is a dismal show of everything wrong in our country

The bombing of venezuelans on boats that are “transporting drugs” is disgusting. There’s zero evidence that they’re actual narco terrorist. I would rather arrest them and prosecute them in court than blowing them up.

Sending the national guard into cities is a huge waste