Hegseth dismisses claims of US munitions shortages

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) offered different assessments of the health of the United States’s current munitions stockpiles while on Face the Nation Sunday morning.

Hegseth pushed back when Margaret Brennan suggested “there is a crisis with those stockpiles” due to the Iran war, saying “that is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle, and ultimately our stockpiles are great and are only getting stronger.”

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