Concerns over the Middle East war straining US weapons stockpiles deepened last month after Acting US Navy Secretary Hung Cao cited the conflict as a reason for pausing arms sales to Taiwan.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified before the Senate Armed Service Committee earlier this year that replenishing the stockpile could take "months and years."

Pete Hegseth and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) offered different assessments of the health of the United States’s current munitions stockpiles on Sunday.