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Defense Department Burns Elon Musk With Defiant Statement on X Telling Employees to Ignore His Email Demand to Justify Their Jobs
The email Elon Musk directed to be sent to all federal employees is getting pushback from President Donald Trump's appointed agency heads, notably including the Department of Defense, which posted a ...
A New Kind of Defense Secretary Saves His Ammunition for Domestic Enemies
Pete Hegseth has spent much of his first weeks in office focused on culture wars while saying little about America’s ...
Pentagon seeking $50B of cuts to Biden programs to promote Trump priorities
The Pentagon is looking to identify about $50 billion of "Biden-legacy programs" to cut so that funding can be repurposed for Trump's agenda.
US defense chief suggests Ukraine should abandon hope of winning all territory back from Russia
Hegseth suggests way forward for Ukraine is for the country to abandon hopes of a return to its pre-2014 borders.
Meaningful Pentagon Cuts Will Require Rethinking What 'Defense' Means
In 2023, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the U.S. government spent $916 billion on ...
Pete Hegseth orders senior leaders to cut 8% from Defense budget
Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth has ordered senior military and civilian Pentagon officials to cut 8% from the defense budget ...
Hegseth Defends Trump’s Firing of Joint Chiefs Chairman
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview on Sunday that Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. was “not the right man for the moment” and praised President Trump’s handling of the war in Ukraine.
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DoD reviewing ‘non-essential’ consultancy contracts for termination
The memo mandates an assessment of "the essentiality of contracts ... for the purpose of terminating or descoping contracts for activities that are not essential for the Department to fulfill its ...