Pete Hegseth: “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s pathetic.”

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

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

You won’t show any political courage to actually fund our department because you have Trump derangement syndrome and you won’t commit to anything meaningful. So, I put this on you, senator.

Their fearless response represents the pinnacle of combat heroism. Simply put, valor.