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Secretary Hegseth Testifies Before the House Armed Services Committee, Jun. 12, 2025

June 12, 2025 · Department of War · 5:12:35

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What happened

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine testified before the House Armed Services Committee during a hearing in Washington on June 12, 2025, published in full by the Department of War (uploaded June 12, 2025). The department’s shorter upload of the same hearing is recorded in this site’s index as an alternate source, not a separate page.

Why it matters

The House Armed Services hearing is the House counterpart to the Senate posture hearings — the Secretary’s testimony is the department’s on-record case to the House committee of jurisdiction.

Scoreboard watch

House Armed Services Committee oversight testimony by the Secretary and the Chairman — 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, “Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies before the House Armed Services 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.