Pete Hegseth: “Pilots suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots.”

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.

We are committed in working with Congress to get $1.5 trillion. But this is not the same way we’ve funded our department in the past.

Without extra money from Congress, the department would face critical shortfalls that threaten our ability to pay our service members, rapidly replenish equipment and munitions, and sustain vital operations without disruption.

Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody.