Pete Hegseth: “Hung Cao is fantastic, but I would not couple the two in any way at all.”

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.

We make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment.

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.

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