DOD is preparing a list of potential spending cuts and will provide that to Congress when it releases its budget proposal in the coming weeks, CQ Roll Call reported.

House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) wrote to the service secretaries last month asking them to identify expenditures that are no longer priorities, including programs and infrastructure.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked the services to find ways to cut 8% of their budgets, and those are the suggestions DOD will send to Congress.

“Secretary Hegseth has tasked senior Pentagon leaders, combatant commanders and defense agency and DOD field activities directors to review the existing FY26 budget estimates submission,” Acting Assistant Defense Secretary Dane Hughes wrote last week in a letter to the committee. “The intent is to reallocate resources away from low-impact areas, such as DEO and climate change programs, to capabilities focused on lethality and readiness.”

DOD photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. John Wright