Quill Lawrence
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Up First from NPR · Venezuela Earthquakes, Trump Senate Fight, Pentagon Shuffles · 25 Jun 2026
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Does this fall into that pattern?
Yes and no.
Hegseth's been trimming the ranks.
And as we've watched that play out, more than half of those cut have been female or black officers.
And Hegseth has been doing this highly unusual thing where he reaches way down into the promotion lists to block people.
And, of course, he summarily fired C.Q.
Brown, who was a black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as soon as Hegseth came in.
But Donahue is a white man, and he seems to fit even the, let's say, narrow vision of what Secretary Hegseth calls a warfighter.
This seems much more like back in April when Army Chief of Staff –
General Randy George was fired by Hegseth with no explanation.
The rumors were that George was seen as an ally of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who had been outshining Hegseth a bit, and this was some sort of retaliation.
That upset many in Congress from both parties.
And now at least the Senate version of this year's defense bill will require written justification from the Pentagon before promotions can be delayed or withheld like this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is lobbying senators to provide $80 billion, mostly to pay for months of war and the thousands of cruise missiles, drones and interceptors expanded after the U.S.
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and Israel launched a war against Iran.
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This comes as the White House is asking for a record $1.5 trillion for this year's regular defense appropriation.
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While defense hawks on Capitol Hill agree that the U.S.
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must urgently replenish its global stockpile of munitions, the Iran war and the current ceasefire agreement are not popular.
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And senators from both parties may balk at such staggering expenses when the American voting public still feels the pinch of higher prices at the gas pump and the grocery store.
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Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
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