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Hegseth and Caine Testify Before the House Armed Services Committee on the FY27 Budget Request, Apr. 29, 2026

April 29, 2026 · Department of War · 5:52:49

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What happened

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine testified before the House Armed Services Committee on the War Department’s FY27 budget request in Washington on April 29, 2026, according to the Department of War’s published description. The department published the full hearing, which runs just under six hours — the longest of Hegseth’s FY27 budget hearings.

Why it matters

The House Armed Services hearing opens the FY27 budget-testimony series: the authorization-side examination of the request on the House side, followed the next day by the Senate Armed Services hearing and on May 12 by the two appropriations hearings. All four are recorded on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub.

Scoreboard watch

This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: the War Department’s FY27 budget request as presented to the House Armed Services Committee on April 29, 2026, to be checked against the authorization and appropriations outcomes.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “DOW FY27 Budget Request: SecWar and Chairman Caine Testify Before the House Armed Services Committee,” April 29, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.