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Critics lit into Hegseth after he demanded that Congress pass Trump’s plan for a $1.5 trillion military budget.⁠ ⁠ While testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Hegseth once again made a pitch for the president’s massive defense spending proposal, going so far as to say that “not funding [the US Department of Defense] at $1.5 trillion is the greatest threat that our nation faces.”⁠ ⁠ In a social media post, economist Dean Baker put Trump’s proposed budget into context by noting that the additional requested defense spending “is a bit less than $5,000 per household.”⁠ ⁠ Baker also pointed out that the U.S. already has a massive defense budget, writing that “before Bozo the president came in, we did fine on $860 billion,” a total that is larger than the combined military budgets of China, Russia, Germany, India, and the UK.⁠ ⁠ Some Democratic lawmakers signaled their opposition to the $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request, which would represent an increase of more than 50% of what the US spent on its military in 2025.⁠ ⁠ Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) slammed Hegseth to his face during the hearing and pointed out that the unprecedented defense spending request was coming at a time when many Americans are struggling to afford gasoline and groceries.⁠ ⁠ “Secretary Hegseth, you are asking for unlimited money for bombs,” Gillibrand said, “when people can’t feed their families.”⁠ Read more here: https://t.co/nPE3Orqw4L #ResistTrump

Pete Hegseth's Pentagon switched its GPS jammers back on five minutes before a medevac plane hit a mountain. All four people aboard died. Their names were Keelan Clark and Ali Kawsara, the pilots, and Sarah Clark and Jamie Novick, the flight nurses. They lifted off from Roswell, New Mexico just after midnight on May 14, flying a Beechcraft King Air to Ruidoso to pick up a patient. Eight minutes after takeoff, their navigation was gone. They told Albuquerque Center they'd lost GPS and asked for the instrument landing system instead, the approach that doesn't need satellites. The controller said he'd have vectors for them shortly. He was busy. Three other aircraft in the same airspace had just reported losing GPS. So they waited, flying north into the dark, about twenty miles past where they should have turned. Then they saw the lights of the airport and told the controller they had it visually. They were cleared for a visual approach, at night, into mountain country. At ten past midnight, a supervisor told the military it could resume jamming. At fifteen past, the King Air struck a ridge at 9,950 feet, 730 feet from the radio facility on the Capitan summit. The fire it started burned more than 30,000 acres. Here's the part the Pentagon will point at, and it's true. The interference was announced in advance. Two notices to airmen were sitting in the crew's briefing, carrying the exercise's own designator. The controllers asked for a pause and got one. Every published protocol was followed. Four Americans are still dead. That isn't a defense of the rules. It's an indictment of them. A notice in a briefing packet does not put satellites back over a crew descending toward rock they cannot see. Federal investigators have confirmed the jamming was active that night and have not yet assigned a cause. That will take months. But there's a question that doesn't take months, and it was never the NTSB's to answer: does this country keep running electronic warfare exercises that blind civilian aircraft over the same sky where air ambulances fly at night? That call belongs to the Secretary of Defense. Pete Hegseth hasn't made it. Four people took off in the middle of the night to help a stranger. Their families deserve answers.