Trump, Hegseth reveal whopping figure they want for the next Pentagon budget

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed to hike the Pentagon fund to implicit $1 trillion for the archetypal clip ever. 

Speaking to reporters alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said the upcoming fund would beryllium "in the vicinity" of $1 trillion, a large boost from this year’s $850 cardinal budget. 

"COMING SOON: the archetypal TRILLION dollar @DeptofDefense budget," Hegseth posted on X. 

He said Trump is "is rebuilding our subject – and FAST."

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the $1T fund would rebuild the subject "fast." (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The fund for each nationalist information programs, including the Department of Defense, atomic weapons improvement and different information agencies, is astatine $892 cardinal for this year. 

Moving to a $1 trillion Pentagon budget would beryllium a 12% summation implicit existent levels. 

But the $1 trillion fund thought comes conscionable arsenic the Pentagon has moved to chopped 8% each twelvemonth for 5 years from each programme to reinvest successful modernization. The section is besides readying to slash tens of thousands from its civilian workforce and consolidate bases crossed the world. 

"We’re going to beryllium approving a budget, and I’m arrogant to say, actually, the biggest 1 we’ve ever done for the military," helium said. "$1 trillion. Nobody has seen thing similar it.

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Speaking to reporters alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said the upcoming fund would beryllium "in the vicinity" of $1 trillion, a large boost from this year’s $850 cardinal budget. (Reuters/Kevin Mohatt)

"We are getting a very, precise almighty military. We person things nether bid now."

White House officials are expected to unveil their fund connection for fiscal twelvemonth 2026 aboriginal this outpouring earlier Congress hashes retired the appropriations process. 

Even a $1 trillion fund would not enactment the U.S. astatine Trump’s stated people for NATO countries to walk connected defense: 5%. 

President Donald Trump looks astatine an representation of an F-47 sixth-generation combatant pitchy successful the Oval Office astatine the White House. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

But the president said the currency influx would beryllium utilized to kickstart accumulation connected caller instrumentality and technologies. 

"We’ve ne'er had the benignant of aircraft, the benignant of missiles, thing that we person ordered," helium said. "And it’s successful galore ways excessively atrocious that we person to bash it because, hopefully, we’re not going to person to usage it."

The Trump medication precocious unveiled a Boeing declaration for the Air Force's sixth-generation combatant jet, the F-47, which the work subdivision expects to outgo astir $20 cardinal from 2025 to 2029. 

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"We cognize each different plane," Trump said. "I’ve seen each 1 of them and it’s not adjacent close. This is simply a adjacent level."

An announcement connected the Navy's next-generation combatant jet, F/A-XX, has been stalled, portion main of naval operations Adm. James Kirby told reporters Monday enactment connected the caller jet's declaration was taking spot astatine "secretary-level and above."