Pete Hegseth: “The dumbest phrase on planet Earth in the military is: our diversity, is our strength.”

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

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.

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.

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