The defense secretary will appear before lawmakers for the first time since his contentious January confirmation hearing.

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the White House’s proposed defense budget for fiscal 2026 is insufficient ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision last spring to shutter a slew of advisory committees has imperiled already enacted ...

The Office of Management and Budget "has a responsibility to get management to the services so that contracts can be executed in a timely fashion," she said, noting that every defense contractor ...

Hegseth instructed the director of the Operational Test and Evaluation Office to “immediately eliminate any non-statutory” ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will testify in front of Senate and House lawmakers next week in his first public testimony since his confirmation. Hegseth will appear alongside the new chairman of ...

House Democrats challenged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a hearing Tuesday over the deployment of U.S. military forces to California.

Congressional Democrats on Tuesday clashed repeatedly with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, demanding details on the Trump administration’s sparsely outlined defense budget request and ...

Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recent personnel cuts in the Pentagon office responsible for weapons testing has halted all work and cleared the way for potential layoffs at the ...

Hegseth returns to Capitol Hill to defend Trump's defense budget plan In May, the administration asked Congress for a $892.6 billion base defense budget , of which around $850 billion would go to ...

Wicker expressed frustration at the “precious little detail and no follow-on data about fiscal years 2027, 2028, or 2029” and said the Office of Management and Budget “intends to maintain ...