Now comes word that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doesn’t just welcome cuts to America’s military spending – particularly to anything and everything climate-related. He reportedly wants senior leaders to identify reductions amounting to 8% of projected defense program funding.

Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth has ordered senior military and civilian Pentagon officials to cut 8% from the defense budget over each of the next five years.

The move could reduce defense spending projections by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next five years.