Hegseth slashes Army training as Trump's war rages on

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Hegseth slashes Army training as Trump’s war rages on
by Lisa Needham
Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 7:00:00a PDT


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a little short on cash.

You see, the Army is apparently short $4 to $6 billion, and while that is a lot of money to the rest of us, it’s pretty much pocket change for the Pentagon. So Hegseth just needs to make a few small adjustments here and there, which led him to a terrific solution: drastically cut training for servicemembers.

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Well, at least it’s only one branch of the military that has to deal with this, right?

Wrong.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle told Congress Tuesday that the Navy could run out of money by July, which could cause interruptions in training and other operations.

It’s honestly astonishing that the military could be facing any sort of shortfall given that the Pentagon’s budget—initially set at $839 billion for this fiscal year—got a $156 billion boost, bumping it to nearly $1 trillion. And next year, if President Donald Trump and Hegseth get their way, it will have $1.5 trillion to completely mismanage.

But Hegseth doesn’t have that money yet, now does he? Right now, Trump’s ridiculous war in Iran has burned through … well, the Pentagon doesn’t actually know how much the war has cost thus far. It could be $29 billion, it could be $40 to 50 billion.

It’s neat how government spending is now an untraceable mess.

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