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Pete Hegseth: “President Trump recognized the reality and challenged our…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 21:03

No feedback loop, no shared priorities and no accountability. Until we connect need money and delivery under one roof. We keep producing wish lists instead of weapons. President Trump recognized the reality and challenged our department to adopt a wartime mindset to confront the bloated and inefficient bureaucracy. And that is why today, at my direction, we are undertaking a series of actions that immediately and fundamentally change how we develop requirements to get capabilities into the hands of our war fighters at speed. (21:03–21:13)

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