acting deputy defense secretary Robert Salesses said in the statement.. “The department will develop a list of potential offsets that could be used to fund these priorities, as well as to ...

as well as excessive bureaucracy," according to a statement from acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses on Wednesday night. It was unclear from the statement what new programs would ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed senior Pentagon officials and military leaders to forge plans that would result in an 8 percent cut to the defense budget for each year over the next ...

In a statement, Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said the cuts were being conceived to pay for other Trump administration defense priorities, including a desired “Iron Dome for ...

Britzky’s report cited previous comments by Robert Salesses, acting deputy defense secretary, who said the DOD would cut “unnecessary spending that set our military back under the previous ...

and ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing," acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert G. Salesses said in a Wednesday statement. "Accordingly, Secretary Hegseth has ...

But in a memo sent out Wednesday evening, acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said the goal was to find “offsets” in the fiscal 2026 budget plan, with a goal of finding at least ...

In a statement after the reports, Acting Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said that Hegseth "has directed a review to identify offsets from the Biden administration's FY26 budget that ...

Robert Salesses, who is performing the duties of deputy secretary of defense, said Wednesday. It represents about 8% of the military's budget. "Through our budgets, the Department of Defense will ...

On Wednesday, acting Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Salesses released a statement acknowledging that military agency leaders had been ordered to cut 8% from their initial fiscal 2026 Defense ...