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Pete Hegseth: “We lean at the Defense Department, or maybe soon to be the…”

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Pete Hegseth's Address at Turning Point USA: Restoring Military Strength and American Leadership

Published | Video Starts at 03:51

And you don't, by the way, you don't get peace without the strength part. And that's, that's my department, the strength department. And so I actually think We lean at the Defense Department, or maybe soon to be the Department of War, for all the right reasons. We lead the biggest peace department in the world. Our job is to be strong and ready and lethal so that you never have to use us. (03:51–04:03)

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Suggests a potential renaming of the Defense Department to the Department of War.

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