Pete Hegseth: “This initiative, it’s not about artificial enhancement. It’s about restoring and optimizing your natural capabilities.”

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?

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

Shame on you and others who call this a quagmire and a failure, and then you want to turn around and say you support the warfighter. Either you do or you don't.

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.