Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth traveled to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on Tuesday to visit the migrant detention center the department restarted using in recent weeks. The military deployed hundreds of service members to the base after President Donald Trump ordered the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to use it to house dangerous migrants

Democratic lawmakers are questioning the long-term damage detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay will have on U.S. military resources as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth toured and touted the mission unfolding at the naval base in Cuba.

In his first weeks in office, President Donald Trump did serious damage to America’s soft power by moving to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and defund the National Endowment for Democracy. Now he seems bent on damaging U.S. hard power, too.

The firings of Adm. Lisa Franchetti and Gen. James Slife follows tonight's removal of Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

On Friday, President Donald Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of naval operations, and the vice chief of staff of the Air Force, as well as the judge advocate generals of the Army,

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 11: General Charles Q. Brown, USAF, during a hearing for reappointment to the grade of general and to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the US Senate in Washington, DC. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) Regarding the Feb. 23 front-page article “ Pentagon cull sends U.S. into unknown ”:

Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth has ordered senior military and civilian Pentagon officials to cut 8% from the defense budget over each of the next five years.

Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy, is the second top female military officer to be fired by the Trump administration.

He was an outstanding leader whose firing was demanded by Pete Hegseth before the Fox News host became secretary of defense.

The abrupt firing of Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and six other Pentagon leaders has drawn fierce criticism from Democrats and military experts.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a statement distributed shortly after ... The administration had previously fired another uniformed leader, Adm. Coast Guard Linda Fagan, for alleged leadership failures. The Coast Guard falls under the Department of ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth traveled to Guantanamo Bay Naval ... Marine service members combined with Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, and civilian personnel — at Guantanamo Bay supporting ...