Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed Congress to approve a sharp increase in the Pentagon’s budget during a ceremony to rename a base after the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina military installation, previously known as Joint Base Charleston, will now be known as Joint Base Lindsey Graham.
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Hegseth has recently spent time on Capitol Hill urging Republicans to support the Pentagon’s massive budget request, which would be a sharp increase from the roughly $800 million approved for last year. The agency also got an additional $150 billion in separate legislation.
Graham, a longtime Republican from South Carolina and Trump ally, died last month from a tear in the inner layer of his aorta. He joined the Air Force Reserves in 1995 and served more than 30 years, including time on active duty as a military lawyer while deployed overseas.
Hegseth also used the speech to criticize “woke, so-called leaders” of the military under previous administrations and praised Graham for spending his “final years taking on a radical leftist ideology that had run rampant in the media, in academia, and even among a few members of Congress.”
Original reporting: KRDO (Colorado Springs metro) — read the source article.
