Pete Hegseth Ordered A Makeup Studio Installed At Pentagon For Press Hits | EUROtoday

Defense Secretary and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth has ordered {that a} room within the Pentagon be used as a make-up studio for tv appearances.

The modifications, first reported by CBS News on Wednesday, price a number of thousand {dollars}.

“Changes and upgrades to the Pentagon Briefing Room are nothing new and routinely happen during changes in an administration,” a Defense Department spokesperson mentioned in an announcement to HuffPost.

Hegseth, who has come beneath fireplace for his mishandling of delicate data and who lately fired a number of aides on the Pentagon, was a former morning co-host on “Fox & Friends Weekend.”

Tami Radabaugh, the deputy assistant to the secretary for strategic engagement and a former producer at Fox News and CBS News, got here up with the thought for a make-up studio, sources instructed CBS News.

In its assertion, the DOD downplayed the brand new make-up studio.

The modifications will probably be used to “offer senior leaders and VIPS a place to prepare prior to press engagements before appearing on television,” the assertion mentioned.

The spokesperson mentioned the modifications included including a “director’s style chair, mirror, and a makeup light” together with a newly constructed countertop.

“For this upgrade we were deliberately conservative and opted for several less expensive, on-hand materiel [sic] solutions,” the assertion mentioned.