Pete Hegseth: “Our view is that should the president make the decision to recommence that we would have all the authorities to do so.”

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.

The best way to create peace is to prepare for war, to deter it.

We hope it doesn't have to go in that direction.

The amount of neglect, the amount of stale thinking and bureaucracy; it was staggering when we took over.