Minister of Defense Pete Hegsetth ordered the agency to develop plans for reducing 8% from the Ministry of Defense budget in each of the next five years to align with President Donald Trump’s priorities, especially to achieve peace with power, the officials said.
Hegsetth is seeking plans in an effort to identify compensation from the budget of the fiscal year Biden Administration 2026, which could be aligned from low-priority Biden-Legecy programs, said Pentagon spokesman Robert Salesses.
Air view of the Pentagon. The Ministry of Defense is expected to bring release after Doge’s members have arrived, the Washington Post report states. (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images)
Hegsetth ordered the proposed cuts to be composed by Monday, the letter said.
“The time to prepare is over. We need to act urgently to revive the warrior ethos, renew Our armyand re -establishing the distraction, “Hegsetth wrote.” Our budget will resist the combat forces we need, to stop unnecessary consumption for defense, dismissing excessive bureaucracy and launch effective reforms, including the progress in the audit. “
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Salesses said that the saved money could be used to align the defense agencies according to Trump’s new priorities, including “Iron Dome For American”, his catch for the rocket defense system.
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US Defense Minister Peta Hegsetth brings objections during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Pentagon on February 5th in Arlington, Va. (Chip Somodeville/Getty Images)
” Ministry of Defense It conducts this review to ensure that we are best exploited by taxpayers’ dollars in a way that effectively and effectively provides priorities for President Trump’s defense, “he said.
“The department will develop a list of potential shifts that could be used to finance these priorities, as well as to divert the departments to its basic mission of deterrent and victory on wars,” he added. “Deviations are focused on 8% of the FY26 bidet budget, with a total value of about $ 50 billion, which will then be spent on programs aligned with President Trump’s priorities.”
The reduction will allow the defense department to stop all the unnecessary consumption that has returned to the soldier under the administration of Biden climate change and other programs “awakened”, SaSeses said. Hegsetth emphasized that the US aims to “revive the warrior ethos”.
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Request for a reduction comes in the middle of a separate order from Trump’s administration to Fire thousands Employees of probationary DOD, which oversees the Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government, or Doge.
