Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defended his tenure and outlined his priorities for the department this week during three separate hearings on Capitol Hill.
He faced difficult questions from the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees on defense and the House Armed Services Committee, ranging from the limited details available for next year’s budget to the department’s acceptance of a Qatari aircraft to be retrofitted as Air Force One, and the deployment of National Guard troops and active-duty Marines to Los Angeles.
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Hegseth received bipartisan criticism for the delayed release of the department’s budget, though it has released topline figures.
The defense-spending budget request is approximately $831 billion, roughly what it was last year with less buying power due to inflation, though the department seeks to
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