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(NewsNation) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to attest Wednesday earlier the Senate Armed Services Committee arsenic President Donald Trump weighs imaginable involution successful the Israel-Iran conflict.
The hearing is centered connected reviewing the Pentagon's projected fund requests, though questioning is apt to crook toward the Middle East.
In summation to Hegseth, witnesses see Gen. Daniel Caine, president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, peculiar adjunct to the caput of defense.
Trump weighs US engagement successful Israel-Iran conflict
Trump has doubled down connected his calls for Iran's "unconditional surrender," sparking pushback from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and lawmakers successful the United States.
In a societal media post, Khamenei warned: “The US entering successful this substance [war] is 100% to its ain detriment. The harm it volition endure volition beryllium acold greater than immoderate harm that Iran whitethorn encounter.”
Bipartisan lawmakers person shared concerns implicit the president's position, and Trump state Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., criticized imaginable U.S. involution Wednesday.
Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., are moving unneurotic connected a solution to forestall U.S. engagement successful Iran without legislature approval.
