All posts tagged "Hung Cao"

President Donald Trump is making matters worse for already embattled Navy sailors with his latest demand for steam catapults, per Politico.

According to reporting on Friday, Trump's costly order for aircraft carriers to ditch their electromagnetic catapults for steam-powered systems is "compounding" pressures as the Navy deals with poor conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln.

"The Navy is really coming under the gun now," a U.S. official told Politico. "We have ships pushing their limits in the Middle East and the Caribbean with no end in sight."...

A Trump administration official doubled down on a "head-turning claim" he previously made during a congressional hearing on Thursday, The Daily Beast reported.

Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao was testifying before the House Armed Services Committee on the Department of the Navy's FY2027 budget request when Rep. Chrissy Houlahan mentioned "interesting" comments that he made in a 2024 debate during his failed GOP Senate run.

"You said, 'what we need is alpha male and alpha females who are going to rip out their guts, eat them, and ask for seconds—those are young men and women that are going to win wars,'" Houlahan said. "Mr. Secretary, did you say that, and do you stand by that?"...