Dem blasts Pentagon during Hegseth hearing: 'They refuse to follow the law'

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, slammed the Pentagon for refusing to follow the law when it comes to briefing members of Congress.

As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was testifying before a House budget committee on Tuesday, the Rhode Island senator spoke to reporters about the Pentagon's refusal to brief both Democrats and Republicans on military operations.

Reed insisted that the Defense Department has not been briefing members "frankly, on anything."

"I'm also, including my Republican colleagues, [DOD] just refuses to give us any meaningful data. And they refuse even to follow the law, which requires reporting to us in a certain number of days," Reed said, according to Roll Call's Mark Satter.

"Jack Reed predicts if Democrats take the Senate in November, the Armed Services panel will investigate the recent slate of high-profile Pentagon firings," Satter added.

At the House appropriations hearing, Hegseth pushed back on questions about the cost of the war in Iran, saying the Pentagon would "share what we can … when it's relevant and required."