Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is now issuing filmed fact-checks

Hegseth issued 3 fact checks, calling out the media for their "bogus" reporting on the Pentagon's recent activities.

1. "The first is DOGE... With DOGE, we're focusing as much as we can on headquarters, and fat, and redundancies, and top-line stuff that allows us to reinvest elsewhere."

"We welcome DOGE, and finding those efficiencies is how we save taxpayer dollars. That is a good thing that of course is being distorted through the media..."

2. "The second story in the news is our work reorienting the budget that we inherited..."

"The media wants to call these exclusive cuts, but it's the opposite, of course, as always is the case... we are pulling around 8% or $50,000,000,000 from the Biden budget."

"We will move away from woke Biden era nonlethal programs, and instead spend that money on President Trump's America first peace through strength priorities for our national budget."

3. "The third and final bogus story that is out there is around our reevaluation of our probationary workforce."

"Bottom line, it is simply not in the public interest to retain individuals whose contributions are not mission-critical, and to restore accountability within the federal workforce."

"Taxpayers deserve to have us take a really thorough look at our workforce top to bottom, and it will be top to bottom, to see where we can find and eliminate redundancies."