War Secretary Pete Hegseth Drops Tippy Top During Senate Testimony April 30 2026

The expenditures that we’ve seen under this administration, we can account for them and we ensure that other O-Plans and elsewhere are well taken care of. So on the munitions front, we’re in really good shape, but we need to accelerate and that’s exactly what we’re doing. And I think that’s an important point you make is that we’re not just trying to fill a hole that was created by epic fury or by support for Ukraine. We’re going to fill that and then go much beyond that for our needs in the future. So we’re never caught where we were over the last several years with these worries about munitions running short.

Is that right, Mr. Secretary? That’s exactly right. The President has charged up with not just replacing anything but filling it up, as he might say, to the tippy top and make sure that the remainder of this term and future presidents have all the munitions they need for any level of contingencies, especially considering the dangerous world we live in. [tr:trw].