That is absolutely outrageous. We have provided billions of dollars to this Defense Department. The fact is that Hegseth has not managed it well, and this administration has taken us into a war that has no strategy. It has no justification. It has no exit strategy.
On Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's funding request.
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Absolutely not. The - I mean, Hegseth's go-to - in fact, many of the Cabinet members' go-to responses if they don't have a good response, blame Biden. Look, Biden did not get us into this war. Trump and Hegseth started this war, and they…
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