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Pete Hegseth: “If a contract doesn't make us more lethal, it's gone.”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Hegseth Announces Pentagon Taking 'Sledgehammer To The Oldest DEI Program'

Published | Video Starts at 03:39

The Department of War has the biggest chunk of 8 spending by far. 10 times more than any other agency. So our cleanup, it's going to be 10 times tougher. It's a two stage mission. First, If a contract doesn't make us more lethal, it's gone. We have no room in our budget for wasteful DEI contracts that don't help us win wars. Period. Full stop. Second, we're doing away with these pass through schemes. (03:39–03:43)

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Asserts that contracts not contributing to military lethality will be eliminated.

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