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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces mounting pressure from senators as the U.S. grapples with escalating casualties in the Iran conflict, with 17 American service members now dead and nearly 450 injured since the war began. Amid rising gas prices and dwindling munitions, lawmakers question the strategy and funding requests from President Trump, who seeks a $95 billion military budget alongside controversial provisions for farmers and voting laws. Critics also highlight Hegseth’s controversial promotion of testosterone supplements for troops and demand answers on a deadly attack on an Iranian school. With the Senate and House repeatedly attempting to halt the war through resolutions—none yet signed by the President—the new budget is poised to pass via a GOP-only process, raising alarms about a potential “forever war.”

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