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Watch live: Hegseth, Caine seek to sell $1.5T defense budget amid Iran war

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Watch live: Hegseth, Caine seek to sell $1.5T defense budget amid Iran war

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine will testify before the House Armed Services Committee on President Trump’s defense budget request for fiscal 2027. Hegseth has argued the $1.5 trillion price tag, a roughly 40 percent increase from 2026 levels, would send a “message to the world” in reestablishing…

Originally reported by The Hill