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Hegseth and Caine Testify Before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the Emergency Supplemental Request, Jul. 21, 2026

July 21, 2026 · Department of War · 3:49:28

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What happened

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified on the President’s emergency supplemental funding request during a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee in Washington on July 21, 2026, according to the Department of War’s published description of the hearing. The department published the full hearing, which runs just under four hours.

Why it matters

An emergency supplemental is an off-cycle funding request: the Secretary and the Chairman presenting it together before the appropriators is the administration’s formal case for the additional money, made on the record to the committee that must act on it. The testimony sits alongside the FY27 budget hearings on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub as part of Hegseth’s congressional record.

Scoreboard watch

This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: the emergency supplemental funding request as presented by Secretary Hegseth and Chairman Caine on July 21, 2026, to be checked against congressional action on the request.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Chairman Caine Testify Before the SAC,” July 21, 2026 hearing as published July 22, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.