Pete Hegseth: “We have to cut through the bureaucracy. We have to hold leaders accountable for their performance.”

The reality: By going more than 90 days without congressional authorization, IS BREAKING THE LAW and must be held accountable.

There is a cost to doing very difficult things, to going out and defending your country, and ensuring radical Islamist crazies don’t get a nuclear weapon.

Every dollar appropriated will be used to build the lethality of US military forces and reinforce peace through strength.

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