Maine Senator Angus King pressed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on the Department of Defense budget on Wednesday.King is ...

announced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had directed the department to identify about $50 billion in spending cuts in order to free up money that could “then be spent on programs aligned ...

To that end, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, as one of his last acts as defense secretary, signed off on a classified ...

Ernst for over 10 years. I knew her when she was a state ... Trump nominated Hegseth, a former National Guard captain, as secretary of defense last month, saying that “with Pete at the helm ...

and Colin Carroll—the former chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg—had worked as senior Pentagon aides before they were fired last week under accusations of leaking ...

On December 19 of last year, Admiral Michael Mullen ... Mattis was a day away from resigning as Donald Trump’s secretary of defense, but he tends to keep his own counsel, and he did not suggest ...

Ever since Donald Trump nominated Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense, critics have called ... the intellectual property of President Trump. Last weekend, the New York Times revealed another ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's chief of staff is moving to a new role at the Pentagon, a senior defense official told CBS News — the latest staffing shift after days of upheaval, after ...