Senator King CONFRONTS Hegseth: $961 BILLION Budget Lies & Confederate Traitor Bases

Senator Angus King just tore into Pete Hegseth in a stunning Senate exchange — exposing both the moral bankruptcy of honoring Confederate traitors and the deception behind a $961 BILLION BUDGET that the Pentagon refuses to present honestly.

King laid it out plainly: Robert E. Lee and other Confederate generals were not heroes, they were traitors. They broke their oaths to the United States and fought to keep millions enslaved. And yet, America still has military bases named after them. That’s not “tradition” — that’s glorifying betrayal.

When Hegseth tried to defend keeping those names, King cut right through the excuses: remembering history does not mean honoring men who took up arms against their own country. To continue celebrating them is an insult to every soldier who fought for the Constitution and to every American who values freedom over slavery.

Then came the budget bombshell: instead of being upfront with the American people, the administration split the defense budget into pieces — hiding nearly $70 billion in reconciliation. That means the actual number is not the $892 billion being sold to the public, but a staggering $961 BILLION. King called it what it is: a dishonest shell game designed to obscure the true cost of war spending.

This is about more than numbers and names. It’s about whether America chooses honesty over deception, truth over mythology, and democracy over betrayal. Confederate names are stains we must erase. Budget lies are scams we must expose.

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