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Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d Sunday that the U.S. has \u201ceverything that it needs\u201d for military operations against Iran, dismissing reporting that U.S. weapons stockpiles are depleted.
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\u201cI want to be crystal clear: The U.S. military, and I\u2019ve verified this every which way, has everything that it needs to conduct this campaign as effectively as it needs to be,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I have to tell you, the people that are leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail.\u201d
He was responding to questions about an NBC News report <\/a>that U.S. military commanders are allowing some Iranian attacks through U.S. defenses as part of an effort to preserve the Pentagon\u2019s weapons supply, according to two senior U.S. officials.
NBC News has also previously reported <\/a>that U.S. weapons stockpiles are diminishing as the war with Iran continues.
Waltz initially argued that stockpiles were depleted during the Biden administration.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth \u201cinherited a depleted situation from not only Ukraine, but also the ongoing fight with the Houthis under the Biden administration and a depleted military under the Biden administration,\u201d Waltz said.
The military under the Trump administration, he said, has decided that \u201cone, they\u2019re going to new types of munitions, cheaper munitions, new technologies, but also with these new defense budgets, rebuilding our great military.\u201d
The White House and the Pentagon didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Hegseth appeared before lawmakers last week to ask for $67 billion in supplemental funding to expand production and speed up delivery of weapons.
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in April, Hegseth acknowledged<\/a> in an exchange with Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., that it could take \u201cmonths and years\u201d to rebuild the weapons stockpile.
In a separate interview with \u201cMeet the Press\u201d moderator Kristen Welker, Kelly referred to that exchange, saying that the situation was \u201cby their own making.\u201d
\u201cThey\u2019re not keeping track,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cThey, at this point, this president and the people around him are incompetent.\u201d
Asked whether he would vote to approve the supplemental funding, Kelly said he has not yet made a final decision.
\u201cIf we had some competent people running this department, you could figure out, how do you defend our nation in a way and give the troops what they need within a reasonable budget?\u201d he said earlier. \u201cWhat they\u2019re asking for is not reasonable.\u201d
In recent days, the U.S. launched nearly two weeks of consecutive nightly attacks on Iran. Trump has told reporters <\/a>that the U.S. is still \u201ctalking to them,\u201d but Iran and its proxies have continued strikes on ships, snarling global trading routes.
Asked whether Trump has decided against escalation amid the pause in consecutive strikes, Waltz said he \u201cwouldn\u2019t go that far at all,\u201d adding that \u201cthe president is keeping all options on the table.\u201d
\u201cWhat the president is doing right now, as we\u2019ve seen all along, is giving some talks some space,\u201d Waltz said. \u201cTalks are ongoing; they\u2019re happening at every level.\u201d
On Saturday, a journalist for the French media outlet LCI reported that she asked<\/a> Trump whether he was considering resuming full-scale war with Iran. She said Trump replied that \u201cif we don\u2019t get 100% of what we want, absolutely.\u201d
Megan Brand is a politics reporter for NBC News.
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