Pete Hegseth: “If Iran does not want to comply, then they can deal with the War Department again, which we'd rather not have to do.”

Current and future training would have to be curtailed if the Pentagon does not get its budget needs met urgently.

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.

A lot of our capabilities are classified, but if anybody in the world can reach anything on God’s green Earth, it’s the United States military, the most powerful military in the world.

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.