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

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is emerging as one of the Democrats’ top targets in the battle for the Senate after voting for all of President Trump’s most controversial nominees. Democrats view

"Less than a month into the new admin, and Matt is trying to make drinking water a scandal,” said Pfeiffer about the new Hegseth bourbon legend. The post ‘Mouth-Breathing Idiot’: White House Staffer Flames Matthew Yglesias Over Hegseth ‘Bourbon’ Myth first appeared on Mediaite.

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

The wonky blogger drew the ire of White House comms staffer Alex Pfeiffer after he helped spread rumors that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was drinking while delivering a speech at a NATO summit earlier this week.

Newly appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claims his family was targeted by the outgoing Biden administration with an audit from the IRS. “Of course the outgoing Biden IRS rushed an ‘audit’ of the incoming SecDef. Total sham,” Hegseth wrote on his official X account Monday, including a photo of an IRS document addressed to him and his wife.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior military and Defense Department officials to draw up plans to cut 8 percent from the defense budget over each of the next five years, officials said on Wednesday.

The move could reduce defense spending projections by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next five years.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hammered home a message upon arrival at NATO headquarters Thursday that allies need to show more urgency in building up their respective militaries to counter a more aggressive Russia.

The defense secretary posted an undated IRS notice on social media. He offered no evidence that it was politically motivated.