Meeting comes amid tentative trade truce but Iran, Taiwan and tensions over global supply chains will be complicating factors
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Pete Hegseth begins his speech to the House appropriations’ defence subcommittee by justifying Trump’s defence budget request of $1.5tn.
“President Trump inherited a defence industrial base that had been hollowed out by years of America last policies,” the defense secretary said.
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