The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

Two percent is a start, as President Trump has said, but it’s not enough, nor is 3%, nor is 4% — more like 5%,” the defense ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the military services to identify $50 billion in programs that could be cut next ...

The U.S. secretary of defense previously addressed allegations of excessive drinking during his January 2025 Senate confirmation hearing.

As part of the Trump administration's wide-ranging overhaul of the US Pentagon, between 5-8% of probationary civilian workers ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Pentagon did not push same "globalist agendas" as USAID but welcomed DOGE "partnership" ...

Pete Hegseth, the new US Secretary of Defense, has stated that his previous remarks about Ukraine's NATO membership being ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s overseas trip started with heckling from military families. That turned out to one the best ...

A senior Pentagon official said that money saved through the cuts could be “realigned” to other defense priorities that ...

Trump fired the Kennedy Center’s leadership upon his return to the Oval Office and put MAGA loyalist Richard Grenell in ...

After Thursday’s NATO ministerial gathering, Hegseth travels to Poland for what the Pentagon said will be talks with leaders about “bilateral defense cooperation, continued deterrence efforts ...

President Trump has made it clear that he is pushing for an end to the war in Ukraine. The move has left Europe worried that ...