Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to Announce More Sweeping Cuts to the Military's Top Ranks ...Middle East

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 2026. —Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images

The news, first reported by Fox News, was confirmed to TIME by a Pentagon official. The new reductions will double the already 10% cuts to general and flag officer positions that Hegseth instructed the military to make last year. 

Hegseth is scheduled to deliver an address at the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia on Wednesday afternoon, during which he is expected to announce the new reductions, Fox News reported.

Hegseth said in a memo at the time that the reduction plan would eliminate “redundant force structure to optimize and streamline leadership” and that the goal was to prevent “unnecessary bureaucratic layers” within the military, The Associated Press reported.

Hegseth has faced a wave of backlash from Democrats and some Republicans over his management of the Department of Defense, in addition to his handling of other issues, such as the war in Iran. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, who has clashed with the Trump Administration on multiple occasions since President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, introduced articles of impeachment against Hegseth earlier this month, including allegations regarding the Iran war.

“I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men and women who serve our country,” Tillis said in a social media post. “I urge the President to find a new leader at the Pentagon who will retain and empower our military talent rather than diminish it.”

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