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Hegseth, Caine and Hurst Testify Before the House on the FY27 Budget Request, May 12, 2026

May 12, 2026 · Department of War · 1:58:16

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What happened

Secretary Hegseth, Chairman Dan Caine, and Jules Hurst III — identified in the Department of War’s description as the War Department comptroller performing the duties of the office — testified on the War Department’s FY27 budget request before the House in Washington on May 12, 2026, according to the department’s published description, which names the House Armed Services Committee. The department published the full hearing, which runs just under two hours; it was the pair’s second FY27 budget hearing of the day, after the Senate Appropriations Committee that morning.

Why it matters

Bringing the department’s comptroller to the table alongside the Secretary and the Chairman puts the budget’s numbers themselves under questioning, not only its strategy. This House testimony completes the May 12, 2026 pair of FY27 hearings and is recorded on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub with the rest of the budget-testimony series.

Scoreboard watch

This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: the War Department’s FY27 budget request as presented to the House on May 12, 2026, to be checked against the appropriations outcome.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “Secretary Hegseth, Chairman Caine & PDO OUSW-CFO Hurst Testify Before the HAC FY 27 Budget Request,” May 12, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.