In his testimony to both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claimed that military recruiting is experiencing an unprecedented surge and that has resulted in needing to turn away recruits, Fox News reported.
“I think something that obviously the media doesn’t want to cover and doesn’t want to talk about is the historic, record-breaking surge in recruiting in our ranks,” Hegseth said Wednesday. “We’re meeting recruiting goals halfway through the year. Under Joe Biden, Americans didn’t want to join the military. We couldn’t get it. Now we have to turn people away and push them to the next fiscal year.”
The proposed budget for fiscal year 2027 would provide funding for 44,500 new troops in the next year.
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