Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth today defended the Pentagon's flat fiscal year 2026 budget request and its reliance on a one-time boost from the yet-to-be-passed reconciliation bill from the bipartisan criticisms of several senior Senate appropriators. “We have two bills and one budget. Ultimately, we're looking at it as one investment for FY-26,” he said during a Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing. The Trump administration is touting a $1 trillion FY-26 defense budget request, though it needs $113 billion from the...
