President Donald Trump and his administration are trying to go on the offensive to defend their foreign and domestic agendas.
The two-pronged strategy is in response to Trump’s military strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites last weekend and his “one big, beautiful bill,” which faces several hurdles in Congress.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth set an assertive tone for the Trump administration on Iran on Thursday morning, hours after he and Trump returned from this year’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in the Netherlands. There, at The Hague, the president repeatedly, and sometimes unprompted, defended the strikes after the leak of a preliminary damage assessment report that indicated Tehran’s nuclear program may not have, in his own words, been “totally obliterated.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt
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