Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth has ordered senior military and civilian Pentagon officials to cut 8% from the defense budget ...

Hegseth, 44, demanded a proposal that would include annual 8% cuts to the Pentagon’s roughly $850 billion budget, according ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering firing or removing generals and senior officers as early as this week, ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked Hegseth for justifications and transparency before any decisions to dismiss senior ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior military and Defense Department officials to draw up plans to cut 8 percent ...

If the investigation becomes politicized or divisive, it could paralyze the Pentagon — and create a generation of risk-averse ...

SecDef confirms a "reevaluation of our probationary workforce"—and adds that a hiring freeze is coming, during which a more ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the military services to identify $50 billion in programs that could be cut next ...

The defense secretary has told senior leaders to prepare to trim 8 percent from the budget over each of the next five years, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that he will immediately begin shifting billions of dollars away from nonlethal ...

Hegseth promised to reinvest budget savings in other military programs and jettison civilian workers who are not living up to ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed Pentagon officials to find about $50 billion in the Biden administration’s fiscal ...