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Pete Hegseth: “We came in on a huge deficit of maintenance on barracks and…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 1:15:07

And we've used discrete examples like that to find the gaps in why we're not getting at it at a more holistic fashion. Because We came in on a huge deficit of maintenance on barracks and housing. This budget funds that. it also. We're also going to pursue MILCON reform because in too many places, we're trying to build things around MILCON as opposed to using Milcon, because MILCON is so bureaucratic and slow in its process. (1:15:07–1:15:16)

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Asserts that the budget addresses a significant maintenance deficit in military barracks and housing.

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