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Posted - April 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Saved - April 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I want to emphasize that China neither built nor operates this canal, and I firmly believe it will not be weaponized.

@SecDef - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

I want to be VERY clear. China did not BUILD this canal, China does not operate this canal, and China will not weaponize this canal. https://t.co/6w0aUD7Yem

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Panama and the United States are less secure, less prosperous, and less sovereign, which is unacceptable. The Panamanian government is responding to threats and safeguarding the canal. President Molino's decision to withdraw from the Belt and Road Initiative reflects his government's understanding of the threat China poses. China did not build, does not operate, and will not weaponize the canal. Together, Panama and the United States will keep the canal secure and available for all nations through the deterrent power of the strongest fighting force in the world.
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Speaker 0: Panama and The United States less secure, less prosperous, and less sovereign. And as president Donald Trump has pointed out, that situation is not acceptable. We are grateful to president Molino, minister Abrego, and your teams along with the Panama Canal Authority for responding to these threats and safeguarding the canal. President Molino's decision to withdraw from the Belt and Road Initiative reflects his government's clear understanding of China and the threat it poses. I wanna be very clear. China did not build this canal. China does not operate this canal, and China will not weaponize this canal. Together with Panama in the lead, we will keep the canal secure and available for all nations through the deterrent power of the strongest, most effective, and most lethal fighting force in the world.
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Posted - March 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Saved - March 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM

@SecDef - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

Another round of @DOGE findings here at the Department of Defense. https://t.co/PSrHn8Zjlq

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The Department of Defense is terminating over $580 million in contracts and grants that do not align with current priorities. This action aims to redirect funds to better support warfighters. Cancellations include an HR software effort that ran $280 million over budget and took eight years instead of one. Also cut are $360 million in DOD grants, including $6 million for decarbonizing emissions from Navy ships, $5.2 million for diversifying Navy engagement with underrepresented BIPOC students, and $9 million for equitable AI and machine learning models, as opposed to lethal models. Additionally, $30 million in contracts with Gartner and McKinsey for IT purchasing of unused licenses are being terminated. These cuts bring the total to $800 million in wasteful spending canceled in recent weeks.
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Speaker 0: We're back with another quick update on our efforts to cut wasteful spending and cut it quickly at the Department of Defense so we get the dollars to the things that the warfighters need. So today, I'm signing a memo directing the termination of over $580,000,000 in DOD contracts and grants that do not match the priorities of this president or this department. In other words, they are not a good use of taxpayer dollars. Ultimately, that's who funds us, and we owe you transparency and making sure we're using it well. So here's quickly what we're canceling today. There's an HR software effort that was supposed to take a year and cost $36,000,000, but instead it's taken eight years and is currently $280,000,000 over budget, not delivering what it was supposed to. So that's 780 percent over budget. We're not doing that anymore. Number two, another batch of DOD grants, $360,000,000 worth this time. Decarbonizing emissions from navy ships, part of the Obama Biden green agenda, that's $6,000,000. 5 point 2 million dollars on something that would diversify and engage the Navy by engaging underrepresented BIPOC students and scholars, another $9,000,000 at a university to approach equitable AI and machine learning models. I need lethal machine learning models, not equitable machine learning models. And number three, in our ongoing effort to cut wasteful spending on external consulting services, $30,000,000 in contracts with Gartner and McKinsey. It's IT purchasing unused licenses. So when you add it all up, $580,000,000 in DOD contracts and grants, Doge is helping us cut today. What does that bring our total number up? Total cuts, running total, $800,000,000 in wasteful spending canceled over the first few weeks as DOD partners with DOGE here to make sure that our warfighters have what they need by cutting the waste, fraud, and abuse. They're working hard. We're working hard with them. We appreciate the work that they're doing, and we have a lot more coming, so stay tuned. If might as well not waste any more time right now. Just sign this thing. How about that? So this makes it official. We're gonna keep going for you guys.
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Posted - February 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Saved - February 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM

@SecDef - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

The American people charged @POTUS who instructed me to return our military to the most lethal, elite, and spectacular fighting force on planet earth. That is what you are going to get! You also deserve FULL transparency, and you will always get that from this defense department🇺🇸

@DeptofDefense - Department of Defense 🇺🇸

A Message From @SecDef To The American Warfighter, And The American Tax Payer. https://t.co/iRSPfrd6w0

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As part of our core mission to secure the nation and spend taxpayer dollars wisely, we're prioritizing President Trump's goals: peace through strength, restoring the warrior ethos, rebuilding our military, and reestablishing deterrence. We are incorporating an organization to find fraud, waste, and abuse, and eliminate redundancies, including Biden-era priorities like DEI and climate change initiatives, to reinvest in our core mission. We're also refocusing our existing budget, shifting about 8% away from Biden's programs to Trump's priorities, building a lethal fighting force. This isn't a cut, but a refocus, reinvesting existing funds. Finally, we're reevaluating our probationary workforce, as mandated by an executive order, to ensure we retain mission-critical individuals and eliminate redundancies. We aim to promote the best and brightest based on merit.
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Speaker 0: Greetings once again from the Defense Department. You, the American people, work really hard to support the men and women in uniform who keep our country safe. We, in turn, owe you transparency on what we're doing to accomplish our core mission, which is securing the nation and spending your taxpayer dollars, ours, wisely. We're gonna shoot straight with you. We want you, the American people, the taxpayers, to understand why we're making the decisions that we're making here. First and foremost, as we're executing as quickly as possible the priorities of President Donald Trump, achieving peace through strength, restoring the warrior ethos, rebuilding our military, and reestablishing deterrence. Those are no brainers, and the American people gave a mandate to President Trump, and through him to us, to double down on those priorities, and that's exactly what we're doing. Now, the legacy media has, of course, a different agenda. You see the same clickbait headlines that I do. Time after time, the media distorts good news stories or often just gets them flat wrong. In many cases, well, in most cases, they have an agenda. Other times, they are just lazy, as they often are, and they don't take time to actually understand the facts. I encourage you to take that media, those negative reports about important decisions that we're making at the department with a gigantic grain of salt, please. Ever since I've taken this position, the only thing I care about is doing right by the war fighters, by the troops. In short, we want the biggest, most badass military on the planet, on God's green earth. I'm in this room right now, but I'm not alone. Behind the camera are lots of vets and military family members, along with other people who, like you, are invested in exactly what that core mission is. So when we make decisions that are misreported in the media, we're gonna try to get to you as quickly as possible. And not just me, it'll be other people as well, so you understand the real thought process behind them, and then how they relate to our core mission of fighting and winning war hopefully deterring them, but fighting and winning wars and then how we spend your taxpayer dollars wisely to accomplish that mission. So to that end, we have three stories that have come out. Stay with me. Three stories over the past couple of days that I want to update you on. The first is Doge. They're here, and we're welcoming them. In fact, right over there, about twenty minutes ago, I just met with them. And we're going be incorporating into what we're doing at DOD, everything they're doing to find fraud, waste, and abuse, in the largest discretionary budget in the federal government. They're going to have broad access, obviously with all the safeguards on classification, they know that, many of them are vets, they care just like we do, To find the redundancies and identify the last vestiges of Biden priorities, the DEI, the woke, the climate change BS, that's not core to our mission, and we're gonna get rid of it all. With Doge, we're focusing as much as we can on headquarters and fat and redundancies and top line stuff that allows us to reinvest elsewhere. We welcome Doge, and finding those efficiencies is how we save taxpayer dollars. That is a good thing that, of course, is being distorted through the media, their hyperventilation, and it just goes entirely unreported for the most part. Now the second story in the news is our work reorienting the budget that we inherited. We inherited that budget one month ago from the Biden administration. We are refocusing, that's a keyword, our existing budget away from the Biden priorities that frankly were all over the map to president Trump's priorities of building a lethal fighting force. The media wants to call these exclusively cuts, but it's the opposite, of course, as always is the case. I've got the memo right here. It's clear as a bell. Now beginning right away, we are pulling around 8% or $50,000,000,000 from the Biden budget. We're planning this is planning for this year that we will move away from woke Biden era nonlethal programs and instead spend that money on president Trump's America first peace through strength priorities for our national budget. First of all, remember, this is all planning. We're asking the services to plan. So it's not a cut. It's refocusing and reinvesting existing funds into building a force that protects you, the American people. We also list on page two, which I've marked up here in our memo, what is not part of the 8% refocusing of funds. It's stated very clearly here. Southwest border activities, combating transnational criminal organizations, an audit, nuclear modernization, Virginia class submarines, the Golden Dome or Iron Dome, one way attack drones, UAVs, cyber security, core readiness, training, the Defense Industrial Base, and it goes on. They and other key programs are off the table under this program. They're too important, as are many other things. So this is great news for taxpayers and for our national security. That's a full stop. We'll just put a period on that one. And third, and the third and final bogus story that is out there, is around our reevaluation of our probationary workforce. Now this is part of something that was mandated by an executive order from the president. Remember, President Trump was elected. He has the positive the prerogative to to advance executive orders. Our job is to follow them, and we're doing that. This reevaluation of probationary employees is being done across government, not just at the Defense Department, but we believe in the goals of the program, and our leaders are carrying out that review carefully and swiftly. Now bottom line, it is simply not in the public interest to retain individuals whose contributions are not mission critical and to restore accountability within the federal workforce. Taxpayers deserve to have us take a really thorough look at our workforce top to bottom, and it will be top to bottom, to see where we can find and eliminate redundancies. Now, common sense would tell us where we should start. Right? We start with poor performers amongst our probationary employees because that is common sense and you want the best and brightest. So when you look at headcount, we're going to be thoughtful, but we're also going to be aggressive up and down the chain to find the places where we can ensure the best and brightest are promoted based on merit. And then we're going to go out and put out a hiring freeze and take more time to identify on a performance based standard who we're going to hire and reward hard working employees who are central to the core warfighting mission. So we're going take a little bit more time, make sure top to bottom we're doing a review, those who we need, who are the best and brightest are going to stay, those who are underperformers won't. We'll continue to shoot straight with you. We've got your back. We're motivated to rebuild the most capable military in the world. That's why I'm here. That's what the president has asked me to do. But doing so does require tough decisions, and we are prepared to make them. But in the process, we want to communicate with you directly rather than through the filter of media outlets. And it's not just gonna be me. You're gonna see Sean Parnell and Graham Allen and others here in the department aggressively ensuring you get the real info in real time, helping you understand what's really going on at the department. So our warfighters and taxpayers deserve, of course, no less than that. And we'll, you know, we'll keep reporting back to you from time to time what we're seeing, and we appreciate your support. We're not gonna get everything perfect, but we're gonna do it earnestly. And we're gonna do it on behalf of president Trump's leadership in making our military once again the most lethal, badass fighting force on the planet to keep our country safe. God bless you, and we're gonna keep fighting.
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Posted - February 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Saved - February 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM

@SecDef - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

Bragg is back! I just signed a memorandum reversing the naming of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. https://t.co/EGgZNHK72x

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I'm directing the Army to rename Fort Liberty, North Carolina, back to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This action is authorized under Title 10, United States Code, Section 113, by the authority of the Secretary of Defense. Bragg is back.
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Speaker 0: There it is. Pursuant to the authority of the secretary of defense, title 10, United States code, section one thirteen, I direct the army to change the name of Fort Liberty, North Carolina to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. That's right. Bragg is back.
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Posted - February 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Saved - February 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Last week, I met with the leadership of West Point, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy. I emphasized the importance of focusing on leadership, standards, excellence, war fighting, and readiness, as these are military academies, not civilian universities. I was encouraged by the changes already in progress and look forward to visiting each institution. Social Justice and DEI initiatives are being replaced with a focus on History, Engineering, and War Studies. Restoring the warrior ethos in the Department of Defense begins with our future leaders.

@SecDef - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

Last week, I met with the leadership of @westpoint_USMA, @navalacademy and @af_academy. My message was simple: stick to leadership, standards, excellence, war fighting, and readiness. These are MILITARY ACADEMIES, not civilian universities. I was impressed by the changes already underway and look forward to visiting each institution. Social Justice and DEI are OUT; History, Engineering, and War Studies are IN. We must restore the warrior ethos to the @deptofdefense — and it starts with our future leaders.

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Posted - February 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Saved - February 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The first flight of high-threat criminal illegal aliens has landed at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. They crossed our once-open border, bringing violence to our communities. President Trump is taking decisive action to expel them, with our nation's finest leading this crucial mission.

@SecDef - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

The first flight of high-threat criminal illegals aliens has arrived at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. These criminals trampled over our previously wide open border to bring violence and mayhem to our communities. President Trump has taken swift action to expel them immediately from our county, and our nation’s finest are helping lead the way in this critical mission.

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