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Pete Hegseth: “It's one of the challenges of all the munitions that we've…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Defense Budget Hearing: Pete Hegseth and General Dan Kane Discuss FY 2026 Priorities and Global Threats

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What about the capability of resupplying or reinserting that technology into other places, including Ukraine? Is the capacity just not sufficient to do that? We would have to review the capacity, but It's one of the challenges of all the munitions that we've given to Ukraine over these last three years, it's created some challenges in other places. I can imagine that many things are frustrating to you, as they are to me. And one is our inability to have a supply chain sufficient to meet the global demands of the United States military in our country. (59:16–59:26)

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