Alright, folks, let’s get straight to it—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just laid down the law: The Department of Defense does not do climate change crap. That’s a direct quote. And let’s be honest, it’s exactly what a lot of Americans have been waiting to hear.
The comment came in response to a CNN report whining about the Pentagon and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cutting funding for climate programs. Because, apparently, the left thinks the military’s top priority should be monitoring the weather instead of training for war.
Let’s break this down.
Hegseth’s response came after CNN’s Haley Britzky breathlessly reported that officials and “experts” are worried these cuts could “put troops and military operations at risk.” CNN even reached out to the Pentagon, looking for some bureaucratic hand-wringing about military readiness.
Instead, they got Pentagon Spokesman John Ullyot, who didn’t mince words: “Climate zealotry and other woke chimeras of the Left are not part of DOD’s mission.”
Translation: The military is getting back to doing military things.
Hegseth doubled down, backing up Ullyot with an unapologetic statement: “The @DeptofDefense does not do climate change crap. We do training and warfighting.”
And that’s the key here—training and warfighting. You know, the things a military is actually supposed to do. Not wasting time and taxpayer dollars on “holistic DEI transformation” or studying the social and institutional detriment of vulnerability in resilience to climate hazards in Africa.
Yes, that last one is real. The Pentagon was spending $1.6 million on a University of Florida study about climate hazards in Africa.
And the Air Force? They had a $1.9 million DEI training program in the works. Meanwhile, $6 million was funneled to the University of Montana for a project to “strengthen American democracy by bridging divides.”
What does any of this have to do with defending the United States? Absolutely nothing.
Enter DOGE. Led by Elon Musk, this agency has been on a mission to root out waste across the federal government, and now they’re taking a scalpel to the Pentagon’s bloated, politically driven budget. According to DOD spokesman Sean Parnell, the initial findings from DOGE’s review are set to save $80 million in wasteful spending. And that’s just the start.
Hegseth isn’t stopping there. He’s fully on board with DOGE’s efforts to clean house across the Treasury, Labor, Education, and Health departments—not to mention the IRS, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Office of Personnel Management.
His message is crystal clear: The last vestiges of Biden-era priorities—DEI, woke nonsense, and climate change distractions—are on the chopping block.
And guess what? The people doing this cleanup aren’t just bureaucrats. Many of them are veterans. People who actually served in uniform. People who know what the military is supposed to do. People who understand that our national defense shouldn’t be bogged down by leftist pet projects.
