Watch Live: Hegseth questioned amid $1.5 trillion budget request

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine are appearing Tuesday earlier the House and Senate subcommittees that oversee Pentagon fund requests arsenic the Trump medication is seeking $1.5 trillion amid the Iran war. 

Hegseth and Caine volition look successful back-to-back hearings earlier the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees that oversee defence spending. The $1.5 trillion fiscal twelvemonth 2027 budget proposal, which serves arsenic a starting constituent for negotiations with Congress implicit yearly spending, would people a 42% summation successful defence spending from 2026 levels.

President Trump said Monday that the ceasefire with Iran is "on beingness support" aft he called the latest Iran bid proposal "totally unacceptable." Mr. Trump told CBS News that helium aims to suspend the state taxation amid soaring state prices. 

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, who is connected the Senate Appropriations Committee, called the $1.5 trillion fig "outrageous." 

"When I got to the Senate 5 and a fractional years ago, the defence fund was conscionable implicit $700 billion," Kelly said Sunday connected "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." "Now they're asking for doubly arsenic overmuch wealth — it's astir the magnitude that the remainder of the satellite pays for its defense."

The hearings are besides coming arsenic the Trump medication has faced expanding backlash for not getting the Iran warfare approved by Congress. While respective warfare powers resolutions person failed to advance, 2 Republicans – Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky — person joined Democrats successful favour of advancing the measurement to bounds Mr. Trump's warfare powers. And GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has said she intends to present a ceremonial authorization for the usage of subject unit successful Iran. 

Hegseth testified past month earlier the House and Senate Armed Services Committees that the struggle has outgo $25 cardinal truthful far, but U.S. officials acquainted with interior assessments suggested astatine the clip that the Iran war's terms tag could beryllium person to $50 billion.