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Pete Hegseth: “We killed wasteful programs, targeted bureaucratic excess…”

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

Published | Video Starts at 02:45

So in the last four months, we have moved very quickly to reverse course. After four years of weakness and mismanagement, we found nearly 30 billion in savings across the department. We killed wasteful programs, targeted bureaucratic excess and redirected funding from Biden era priorities to President Trump's priorities. Working with the Department of Homeland Security, we increased border security, to say the least. We reduced China's malign influence in our hemisphere. We defended freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. (02:45–02:55)

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Asserts that funding was redirected from Biden-era priorities to Trump-era priorities.

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