Pete Hegseth: “We can do it the Midnight Hammer way. We can do it the Epic Fury way if we need to.”

It is a day and night difference. Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness — the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior — is the only focus of our department. Colorblind, gender-neutral, merit-based. That’s it.

I honored the Iowa soldiers killed in Kuwait, while saying the U.S.-Iran conflict was necessary to keep Americans safe.

Standalone Article II authorities exist for us to conduct this operation on behalf of the defense of the American people.

Shame on you and others who call this a quagmire and a failure, and then you want to turn around and say you support the warfighter. Either you do or you don't.