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Secretary Hegseth Testifies Before the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, Jun. 11, 2025

June 11, 2025 · Department of War · 2:33:17

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What happened

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine provided testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee during a hearing in Washington on June 11, 2025, published by the Department of War (uploaded June 12, 2025).

Why it matters

The Appropriations defense subcommittee writes the department’s funding bill — testimony there is the Secretary’s direct budget case to the appropriators.

Scoreboard watch

Senate Appropriations defense-subcommittee budget testimony — part of the June 2025 FY2026 testimony round for the scoreboard’s defense file (flagged for review; no scoreboard entry is published by this lane).

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Provides Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Committee” uploaded June 12, 2025 (official upload, embedded above). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.