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Secretary Hegseth Speaks to the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, Jul. 2, 2026

July 2, 2026 · Department of War · 0:57:53

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What happened

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth spoke to members of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 2026, in full remarks published by the Department of War on July 3, 2026. The task force is the federal public-safety mission in the capital in which the department’s forces serve.

Why it matters

The address is the Secretary speaking directly to the force carrying out the capital mission — the domestic deployment that has put service members in a public-safety role in Washington — and it records how the department’s senior leader frames that mission to the people executing it.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “Secretary Hegseth Speaks to Members of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force,” July 2, 2026 (official upload, embedded above; published July 3, 2026). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.