Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is struggling to drum up congressional support for a mammoth $1.5 trillion budget request to run the Pentagon next year amid unease over the Iran war, according to a report.
Semafor reports that the secretary is “running into a wall of congressional GOP resistance” in the Senate as he seeks to secure the funding, with his fellow Republicans unhappy about the progress of the war, the mass firings he has carried out at the Department of Defense and his failure to cultivate relationships on Capitol Hill.
