Pete Hegseth: “The status quo is simply unacceptable, and everyone knows 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.

When will you show leadership and stand up to your fellow Democrats who won’t fund the troop, who play partisan politics while you don’t give us the money? You want to stand up here and talk about the troops?

What they do in those high seas in those austere conditions with less port calls — it's incredible.