Pete Hegseth: “We won WWI, and we won WWII, not with the Department of Defense, but with a War Department, with the Department of War.”

This request is an urgent, necessary injection of resources to address the immediate needs of our department.

Ensure they never have a path to a nuclear bomb, full stop.

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

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