Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he doesn’t think they are “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given
Pete Hegseth touted Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, highlighting that he was not involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a picture to X of what appears to be a tax notice showing he owes more than $33,000 in taxes.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a photo of what appeared to show the IRS telling him that he and his wife, Jennifer Rauchet, owed the IRS more than $33,500.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth verified that staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are working in the Pentagon to uncover waste, fraud and abuse in the government’s largest discretionary budget.
Democratic lawmakers are questioning the long-term damage detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay will have on U.S. military resources as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth toured and touted the mission unfolding at the naval base in Cuba.
The defense secretary has repeatedly derided the military lawyers for war crime prosecutions and battlefield rules of engagement.
The new Pentagon chief got a look at Guantánamo Bay’s most infamous inmate in his recent visit to the wartime prison.
In the memo, Hegseth outlines cuts that are twice as severe as the sequestration budget reductions imposed in 2013 — the last major cuts to the Defense Department — and equivalent to double the amount that congressional Republicans had planned to add to the Pentagon budget.
Hegseth, 44, demanded a proposal that would include annual 8% cuts to the Pentagon’s roughly $850 billion budget, according to a memo.
US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said on Monday that stronger military co-operation with ally Saudi Arabia was "something we're discussing". The context was a potential crisis with Iran. His comments put the US military posture in the Middle East back in the spotlight amid concerns in Washington that the US military is overstretched globally.