Pete Hegseth is pushing a $1.5T Pentagon budget through reconciliation, a 40-50% jump over FY26 spending that faces skepticism from Republican fiscal hawks.

Any supplemental for the FY27 defense budget due to the Iran war should be made through normal channels—and be smaller in size.

Pete Hegseth is pushing a $1.5T Pentagon budget through reconciliation, a 40-50% jump over FY26 spending that faces skepticism from Republican fiscal hawks.