{"id":4943,"date":"2026-08-05T09:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:40:19","slug":"pentagon-petes-secret-plea-for-cash-is-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4943","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Pete\u2019s Secret Plea for Cash Is Leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is quietly begging lawmakers for even more money to plug the hole blown in his department\u2019s accounts by Donald Trump\u2019s war of choice on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4942\">Hannity Melts Down at His Own Network\u2019s Poll Spelling Trouble for Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is already trying to squeeze $67 billion from Congress to help replace the stockpiles it has burned through. The president promised the fighting would last just a \u201cfew weeks.\u201d It\u2019s now in its sixth month. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hegseth and his team met with Republican senators on Tuesday for a closed-door briefing. Defense officials showed \u201ccandor\u201d at that meeting about the toll the conflict has taken, and told lawmakers to expect requests for more funding on top of the amount they\u2019ve already asked for, according to Axios. The secretary has routinely excluded Democratic lawmakers from updates on the war\u2014and didn\u2019t invite them to this one either.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>His officials had anonymously sounded the alarm even before Tuesday\u2019s meeting began. Strikes against Iran have used up \u201cvirtually all\u201d of the U.S. military\u2019s \u201chighly accurate long-range missiles,\u201d they told Reuters earlier in the day. The shortfall has affected \u201creadiness for future conflicts,\u201d and could leave America open to attack by other enemies, like China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth\u2019s team seems to have raised the same concerns in briefing Republican senators. \u201cThe officials gave an around-the-world threat analysis, laying out for senators how the U.S. stacks up against key adversaries\u2014with an emphasis on China,\u201d Axios writes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4940\">Trump Melts Down at Judge Jeanine Over Pool Sabotage Fantasy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump, 80, has failed to stick to any timeline for an end to the conflict he started in February. He\u2019s occasionally said the war is \u201calready over\u201d and, at other times, that it could last \u201cforever.\u201d A temporary ceasefire he signed in June lasted just 21 days before peace talks fell apart. Washington and Tehran have returned to bombing one another with gusto in the weeks since. <\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s diplomatic blunders have not just left the Pentagon scrambling for the cash to keep those strikes going. It\u2019s also run them clean out of ideas on how to weaken an enemy who\u2019s proven more resilient at almost every turn than anyone at the White House appears to have expected. \u201cWe are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,\u201d as one top defense official pleaded in a frantic \u201ccrowdsourcing-style\u201d email blast to military analysts last week, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Daily Beast has contacted the Pentagon and the White House for comment on this story. Trump spokesperson Anna Kelly has previously said that \u201cthe United States Military has more than enough munitions, ammo, and stockpiles to serve all of President Trump\u2019s strategic goals and beyond.\u201d Hegseth\u2019s spokesperson Sean Parnell added the Pentagon \u201chas everything it needs to execute at the time and place of the president\u2019s choosing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4938\">Pirro Gave Trump a Show and Tell of Reflecting Pool\u2019s Issues<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is quietly begging lawmakers for even more money to plug the hole blown in his department\u2019s accounts by Donald Trump\u2019s war of choice on Iran. 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