WATCH: Rep. Rogers touts 'historic' Trump administration defense budget request at Hegseth hearing

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chair of the House Armed Services Committee, made a closing statement Wednesday in a hearing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Hegseth and Caine were invited to testify on President Donald Trump’s 2027 budget request to  increase defense spending to $1.5 trillion – the largest proposed amount in decades.

The House hearing gave lawmakers a chance to question the defense leaders for the first time since the start of the war on Iran, which the U.S. and Israel launched at the end of February. While Hegseth has touted the Iran war as “a gift to the world,” polls have found that a majority of Americans disapprove of the conflict and the Trump administration’s handling of it.

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