After resisting calls for public hearings for weeks, House Republicans have called the secretary of defense to testify at a budget hearing in late April for the first time since the attacks on Iran began.
President Trump and his aides have made contradictory statements on whether the United States and Israel have transformed the Iranian government through violence.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during his news conference on Tuesday that “this new regime, because regime change has occurred, should be wiser than the last.”
Sightings of drones around Fort McNair, the Army base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio live, have prompted consideration of deploying the new technology.
The LOCUST, an anti-drone laser system that has been used recently along the border with Mexico, may be deployed in Washington to help protect the military base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio reside.
President Trump has vacillated between boasting about U.S. military superiority and deep frustration that his war of choice is not always having the desired effects.
As the conflict with Iran expands and intensifies, President Trump’s options — to fight on, or to move toward declaring victory and pulling back — both carry deeply problematic consequences.
The Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson joins E.J. Dionne Jr. and Robert Siegel to discuss Trump’s falling approval rating and what it portends for November.
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