Pete Hegseth: “President Trump said we’re not fighting stupid wars like that again and he hasn’t.”

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

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

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.

Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness — the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior — is the only focus of our department.