When you rip out DEI, when you rip out social engineering and social justice and you put in merit, and then you untie the hands of commanders to enforce discipline and accountability, to get back to basics, then you get historic…
Pete Hegseth
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration; Army National Guard veteran and former Fox News host.
The reality: By going more than 90 days without congressional authorization, IS BREAKING THE LAW and must be held accountable.
It’s not about artificial enhancement,” Hegseth said in his video. “It’s about restoring and optimizing your natural capabilities, protecting your longevity and ensuring you have the biological foundation required to sustain the fight.
The conflict has now cost an estimated $37.5 billion, up from $29 billion in mid-May.
A lot of our capabilities are classified, but if anybody in the world can reach anything on God’s green Earth, it’s the United States military, the most powerful military in the world.
This request is an urgent, necessary injection of resources to address the immediate needs of our department.
Training right now and training in the future that would have to be curtailed if we do not get our budget needs met, and met urgently.
Standalone Article II authorities exist for us to conduct this operation on behalf of the defense of the American people.
Current and future training would have to be curtailed if the Pentagon does not get its budget needs met urgently.
The amount of neglect, the amount of stale thinking and bureaucracy; it was staggering when we took over.