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The Pentagon is routing another aircraft carrier to the region and sending additional aircraft to Europe as the conflict between Israel and Iran escalates.
The move comes as Israel braces for a retaliatory attack from Iran.
The Defense secretary said he’d comply with a Supreme Court order blocking Trump’s domestic deployment, but did not commit to the other courts.
The three-nation partnership aims to protect against China in the Pacific.
The Pentagon chief stumbled when pressed on the legal underpinning for the deployment of 700 Marines to California.
The former Senate majority leader and a top Trump ally laid into the Pentagon chief over the administration’s actions toward the embattled country.
The estimate came during a budget hearing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said the president is enforcing “law and order.”
The troops will not participate in law enforcement activities, two officials said, unless the president chooses to invoke the Insurrection Act.
The public meltdown between the SpaceX founder and the president has given moon advocates in Congress and industry an opening — and they’re seizing it.
Other estimates for transforming the plane into Air Force One have reached the billions.
