US EditionUS looks at 8% defense budget cut in each of next 5 years, Washington Post reports
- The Pentagon has been ordered to cut $50 billion from its budget, which represents roughly 8% of military spending.
- Programs related to climate change initiatives and diversity efforts could be scaled back or eliminated, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
- The reallocated funds will support priorities such as border security and the U.S. Missile defense system, as stated by Hegseth.
- The Defense Department cited climate change as a significant threat to military infrastructure, despite the reallocation of funds away from related programs.
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Pentagon to unveil cuts alongside fiscal 2026 budget request
Pentagon leaders plan to roll out their recommended cuts to military spending alongside their budget request for fiscal 2026, the Defense Department indicated in a newly released letter to Congress. The letter, addressed to House Armed Services Chair Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., and dated March 5, states that Congress will be informed of the results of the so-called budget relook — which called for an internal realignment of 8 percent of the Defense…
Hegseth aims DOGE at Pentagon: Orders defense leadership to draw...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly asked Pentagon officials Tuesday to draw up plans to slash defense spending for each of the next five years — as the department became the latest target of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) cost-cutting mission. Hegseth, 44, demanded a proposal that would include annual 8% cuts to the Pentagon's roughly $850 billion budget, according to a memo obtained by the Washington Post.…
MAGA Senator Roasted After Mangling The Word 'Triangle' In Lame Pentagon Budget Cut Joke
Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama was roasted after he couldn't quite recall the proper word for a three-sided shape, mangling the word "triangle" in a joke about Pentagon budget cuts.Congressional Democrats have pushed back upon learning that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed senior Pentagon and military officials to plan for 8 percent budget cuts annually over the next five years.Republicans, despite typically advocating…
Pete Hegseth Tells Us EXACTLY How He Intends To Make America's Military Great Again
Personnel is policy, the saying goes. The confirmation of Hegseth is a powerful example of that principle in action. Whereas the last SECDEF showing his idea of public transparency by literally went AWOL for days, with nobody in the chain of command even knowing what he was doing, Pete Hegseth is bypassing the media gatekeepers whose malicious partisanship was on full display during the confirmation process. Rather than let the Dems and other me…
Pentagon will cut billions of dollars in programs but not its overall budget, Hegseth says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that he will immediately begin shifting billions of dollars away from nonlethal programs in connection with a broader reorganization of military priorities.
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