The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

Two percent is a start, as President Trump has said, but it’s not enough, nor is 3%, nor is 4% — more like 5%,” the defense secretary said in a speech in Brussels.

As part of the Trump administration's wide-ranging overhaul of the US Pentagon, between 5-8% of probationary civilian workers will be fired.

Pete Hegseth, the new US Secretary of Defense, has stated that his previous remarks about Ukraine's NATO membership being unrealistic did not mean that Ukraine could not join the Alliance in the future.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s overseas trip started with heckling from military families. That turned out to be one the best moments of his excursion.

In 2023, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the U.S. government spent $916 billion on "defense," which was more than the

Trump fired the Kennedy Center’s leadership upon his return to the Oval Office and put MAGA loyalist Richard Grenell in charge of the famed institution. In the week that followed the decision ticket sales halved, Kennedy Center staff members told The Washington Post anonymously for fear of reprisals.

A senior Pentagon official said that money saved through the cuts could be “realigned” to other defense priorities that President Donald Trump has.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Pentagon did not push same "globalist agendas" as USAID but welcomed DOGE "partnership" to find billions in waste.

US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said there are no discussions about Ukraine's accession to NATO at the moment. He emphasized that he is waiting for Europe to step up its efforts, according to CNN White House correspondent Alaina Trinh.

He will also highlight the need for increased European leadership on security assistance to Ukraine,” the Pentagon said, prior to Hegseth’s departure. America’s 31 NATO allies also want to hear what a new Trump administration has in store for the ...

President Trump has made it clear that he is pushing for an end to the war in Ukraine. The move has left Europe worried that it, and Ukraine, could be left out as he negotiates with Russia’s leader, Vladimir V.