Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Thursday evening that the Pentagon is not cutting defense spending, despite some reports that he was planning on cutting up to 40% of the defense budget.
Hegseth clarified his agenda in a video that the Department of Defense posted in which he said that he was looking to shift $50 billion, or roughly 8% of the budget — which was put in place by the Biden administration — to priorities that align with the Trump administration.
“We are refocusing, that’s a key word, our existing budget, away from the Biden priorities that frankly, were all over the map, to President Trump’s priorities of building a lethal fighting force,” he said. “The media wants to call these exclusively cuts, but it’s the opposite, of course, as always is the case.”
“I’ve got the memo right here. It’s clear as a bell. Now, beginning right away, we are…
