The Headaches Mount for Hegseth

“The House passed a stopgap spending bill this week to avert a government shutdown, but the measure does little to relieve the Pentagon’s mounting financial strain six months into the Iran war — or the pressure facing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,” NOTUS reports.

“While the continuing resolution keeps the government funded into early December largely at existing spending levels, it does not provide the tens of billions of dollars the Pentagon says it needs to cover Iran operations, replenish munitions and sustain forces whose deployments have been extended.”