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 ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has confirmed that the Department of Defense plans to cut anywhere from 5-8% of its ...

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

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could soon move to fire more than half a dozen generals and flag officers, according to two ...

The department has more than 945,000 civilian employees. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said 17 specific missions, such as military operations at the southwestern border, would be exempt from the ...

Officials are pushing back on the notion that the Department of Defense has a "list" of flag officers that Secretary Pete ...

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 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is preparing for a hiring freeze and an “aggressive” effort to fire civilian employees as the Trump administration’s axe to the federal workforce ...

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

SecDef says a "reevaluation of our probationary workforce" will be followed by a wider dismissal of "redundancies" and ...