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Pete Hegseth: “We've been managing four years of deferred maintenance under…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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BREAKING Hegseth responds to Atlantic article 'Nobody was texting war plans'.

Published | Video Starts at 01:26

I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign because of the skill and courage of our troops. I've monitored it very closely from the beginning. And you see We've been managing four years of deferred maintenance under the Trump administration. Our troops, our sailors were getting shot at as targets our ships couldn't sail through. And when they did shoot back, it was purely defensively or at shacks in Yemen. (01:26–01:31)

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Asserts that there has been four years of deferred maintenance in the military under the Trump administration.

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