Pete Hegseth

Thank you.

Thank you for the courage to stop this terror state from holding the world hostage with missiles while building or attempting to build a nuclear bomb.

Thank you for doing the work of the free world.

As far as $200 billion, I think that number could move, obviously.

It takes money to kill bad guys.

So we're going back to Congress and our folks there to ensure that we're properly funded for what's been done.

for what we may have to do in the future, ensure that our ammunition is, everything's refilled and not just refilled, but above and beyond.

I mean, President Trump, as he said, rebuilt the military in his first term, didn't think he'd use it as dynamically in his second, but he had.

So thank goodness he did that.

And an investment like this is meant to say, hey, we'll replace anything that was spent.

And now that we're reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding the arsenal of freedom and cutting deals like our great deputy secretaries here is doing,

long lead times on exquisite munitions were going to be refilled faster than anyone imagined.

Soon and very soon, all of Iran's defense companies will be destroyed.

For example, as of two days ago, Iran's entire ballistic missile production capacity

Every company that builds every component of those missiles has been functionally defeated, destroyed.

They're confused and we know it.

Our response, we will keep pressing, we will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.

Yet some in this crew, in the press, just can't stop.

Allow me to make a few suggestions.

People look up at the TV and they see banners, they see headlines.