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Hegseth and Caine Testify Before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the FY27 Budget Request, May 12, 2026

May 12, 2026 · Department of War · 2:04:33

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What happened

Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman Dan Caine testified on the War Department’s FY27 budget request before the Senate Appropriations Committee in Washington on May 12, 2026, according to the Department of War’s published description. The department published the full hearing, which runs just over two hours; Hegseth and Caine also testified on the FY27 request before a House committee the same day.

Why it matters

The annual budget hearings are where the Secretary defends the department’s funding request line by line before the committees that write the defense appropriations bill. This Senate Appropriations testimony is one of the four FY27 budget hearings Hegseth and Caine gave that spring, recorded together 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 Senate Appropriations Committee on May 12, 2026, to be checked against the appropriations outcome.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “Secretary Hegseth and Chairman Caine Testify Before the SAC 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.