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Pete Hegseth: “This 8% has been highly mischaracterized, Maria. It's not a…”

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Golden Dome, southern border. The president has laid out very clearly his agenda to rebuild the US Military. He did it in his first term, he's going to do it again. This 8% has been highly mischaracterized, Maria. It's not a cut, it's a reallocation away from Biden priorities, toward green New Deal stuff, toward President Trump priorities. So we have revived the warrior ethos inside the military. We're reestablishing deterrence, and per the president's direction, we are going to rebuild the military. (09:07–09:18)

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Asserts that the 8% budget change is a reallocation from Biden's priorities to Trump's priorities, not a cut.

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