Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will testify on the Pentagon’s budget before the House Appropriations Committee Defense Subcommittee around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine will also be present at the hearing. This will be Hegseth’s first time in a congressional hearing since the Signal leaks and the recent deployment of Marines to California.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright
Energy Secretary Chris Wright will testify on the Energy Department’s budget around 10 a.m. on Tuesday in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Energy Subcommittee.
The secretary has been at work cleaning the department out of Biden initiatives, recently terminating nearly $4 billion of financial awards, with most aimed at carbon capture and sequestration and decarbonization initiatives.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner will testify on the department’s budget at around 10 a.m. on Tuesday in front of the House Appropriations Committee, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee.
Turner recently visited the New York City Housing Authority, blasting it as he met with the agency’s head. “I see a lot of waste. I see a lot of fraud, and a lot of abuse,” Turner said.
NIH head Jay Bhattacharya
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will testify on the NIH’s budget request at around 10 a.m. on Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Bhattacharya is dealing with wide controversy over cuts to public health, with a group of NIH scientists recently penning a letter to him expressing their concern about “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”
