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WASHINGTON – Texas Senator Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury) has been nominated by the Trump Administration to serve in a position at the Pentagon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sen. Birdwell gets Trump nomination <\/p>\n
Birdwell has been nominated<\/a> to serve as an assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Christopher Joseph Lowman.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Granbury senator had previously announced in June his intent not to seek reelection. He’s held his seat for the past 15 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n During the 89th Texas Legislative Session, Birdwell chaired the Texas Senate Committees on Border Security and Natural Resources. He also serves on the Committees on Nominations; State Affairs; and Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The nomination was sent to the Senate Monday, and currently awaits approval.\u00a0<\/p>\n Texas Senator Brian Birdwell The backstory:<\/p>\n Birdwell has a long history as an Army Veteran. He previously worked at the Pentagon as a staff member for the Department of the Army.<\/p>\n During his previous tenture at the Pentagon, the now-Texas politician was injured in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a 2019 interview with FOX 4 remembering the 9\/11 attacks, Birdwell confirmed he suffered burns to around 60 percent of his body.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article came from the White House and previous FOX 4 coverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n Texas<\/a>Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Texas Sen. Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury) WASHINGTON – Texas Senator Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury) has been nominated by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[223,287,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-16503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-politics","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"PREVIOUS](\"https:\/\/nmvxdvra2muiv2amejorzkvqgg.gcdn.anvato.net\/captures\/4B7\/ADA\/4B7ADA85A8BD491EA23D9EFF0171E665.jpg\")
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