Posted on 11/10/2026 8:43:31 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
War Secretary Pete Hegseth called for at least $350 billion in additional military funding and defended the Iran war as necessary while answering questions Tuesday during a Pentagon press briefing on the push to impeach him.
"$350 billion, at a minimum, for reconciliation is what we believe is needed to make a generational and historic investment in this department, something our warfighters need," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
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"My job is not to litigate all of this every day. It's to ensure we're funded and funded properly, which is what the president expects every single day," he said.
Military spending is one of the few, VERY FEW, spending obligations the Constitution specifies.
Hegseth is doing his job—and his job is not policy—so I have no issue with him.
That said—every nickel of that three hundred and fifty billion dollars needs to stay in taxpayer pockets or not added to the national debt.
The party of war will never win another election for decades.
BETWEEN TRUMP===HEGSETH—MILLER====
WE HAVE THE 3 MUSKETEERS TO SAVE THE USA
IF WE LOSE THE WAR-—
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ELECTION
Wait, I thought total Iran War cost was low, only $47.1 billion on the war as of mid-October 2026,
Hegseth says Iran war has cost $37.5 billion. July 21, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told lawmakers Tuesday the U.S.-Iran war has cost about $37.5 billion so far, as the Trump administration asks Congress to approve tens of billions of dollars in additional Pentagon funding to help underwrite the cost of the war.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-caine-senate-hearing-iran/
Hegseth is a firstclass Secretary of War.
President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget proposal requests a total national defense topline of $1.5 trillion, which is an increase of roughly $400 billion to $500 billion (about a 42% to 44% boost) compared to the previous fiscal year’s defense funding.
We need that money for cyberwar technology, new aircraft, missiles, new ships and more. If we stop financing our military-the Chinese won’t stop theirs. This is more than just Iran..or Ukraine.
And this is a spectacle. I did not know that the Sec of War had powers carte blanche to just wage war and conflict on his own.
Even Schwarzkopf kept the public informed through frequent briefings. Kegseth hides for 6 months and then shows up to say yeah give me more money. That’s not how this works.
How about $5 billion for a complete audit of the Defense Department? Get some of that money from the Defense Contract Audit Agency, one of the most worthless agencies in the federal government.
A look at the past:
BY: Bill Gertz
October 5, 2012 5:00 am
Weeks before the presidential election, President Barack Obama’s administration faces mounting opposition from within the ranks of U.S. intelligence agencies over what career officers say is a “cover up” of intelligence information about terrorism in North Africa.
Intelligence held back from senior officials and the public includes numerous classified reports revealing clear Iranian support for jihadists throughout the tumultuous North Africa and Middle East region, as well as notably widespread al Qaeda penetration into Egypt and Libya in the months before the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
“The Iranian strategy is two-fold: upping the ante for the Obama administration’s economic sanctions against Iran and perceived cyber operations against Iran’s nuclear weapons program by conducting terror attacks on soft U.S. targets and cyber attacks against U.S. financial interests,” said one official, speaking confidentially. ...
We need that money for cyberwar technology, new aircraft, missiles, new ships and more.
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Not to mention maintenance from rusting out ships to troops in rotting housing.
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