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Hegseth says US putting defence industrial base ‘back on wartime footing’

Published April 29, 2026
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Defending the White House’s request for the $1.5 trillion defence budget increase, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth says Trump aims to put the US’s defence industrial base “back on a wartime footing”, according to Al Jazeera.

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