Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is seated alongside Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Caine at a House Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington, on Tuesday. Kylie Cooper/Reuters
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine will respond to inquiries from senators today, after yesterday’s House hearing that occasionally became heated.
Hegseth and Caine will go back to Capitol Hill for a session regarding the White House’s $1.5 trillion defense budget proposal before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The session is anticipated to start at 11 a.m. ET.
In yesterday’s House hearing, Hegseth clashed with Democrats multiple times regarding the conflict in Iran. He claimed that legislators who were against the war represented the “greatest opponent” confronting the United States.
They will both be accompanied again by Jules “Jay” Hurst III, the Pentagon official who is now serving as the agency’s comptroller.
Hurst informed the House committee yesterday that the conflict in Iran has incurred approximately $25 billion in expenses so far. However, sources informed Xenix News that this figure is a low estimate that overlooks the expenses needed for repairing US military bases that were harmed during the war.
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