Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is quietly begging lawmakers for even more money to plug the hole blown in his department’s accounts by Donald Trump’s war of choice on Iran.
The Pentagon is already trying to squeeze $67 billion from Congress to help replace the stockpiles it has burned through. The president promised the fighting would last just a “few weeks.” It’s now in its sixth month.
Hegseth and his team met with Republican senators on Tuesday for a closed-door briefing. Defense officials showed “candor” at that meeting about the toll the conflict has taken, and told lawmakers to expect requests for more funding on top of the amount they’ve already asked for, according to Axios. The secretary has routinely excluded Democratic lawmakers from updates on the war—and didn’t invite them to this one either.
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