Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a> also attended the meeting.<\/p>\n“Expansion began three months prior to the meeting, and Plants and Production of many of these Weapons are already under way,” Trump said on Truth Social.<\/p>\n
“We have a virtually unlimited supply of Medium and Upper Medium Grade Munitions, which we are using, as an example, in Iran, and recently used in Venezuela. Regardless, however, we have also increased Orders at these levels,” the president said.<\/p>\n
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, in a statement before the closed-door meeting, said, “The US military has more than enough munitions, ammo, and weapons stockpiles to continue demolishing the Iranian regime and achieve the goals of Operation Epic Fury.”<\/p>\n
The White House has been on the defensive after news reports detailing concerns about low supply of both munitions and anti-missile defenses if the Iran war drags on.<\/p>\n
Read more U.S.-Iran war news<\/p>\n
“Nevertheless, President Trump has always been intensely focused on strengthening our military, which is why this meeting with defense contractors was scheduled weeks ago,” Leavitt said.<\/p>\n
“The President will continue to call on these US companies to more speedily build American-made weapons, which are the absolute best in the world,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4515,164,124,328,135,648,160,38,159,563,4514,564,34,165,1772,1095,161,171,81,565,166],"class_list":{"0":"post-7319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-bae-systems-plc","9":"tag-boeing-co","10":"tag-breaking-news-politics","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-business-news","13":"tag-defense","14":"tag-donald-j-trump","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-foreign-policy","17":"tag-general-dynamics-corp","18":"tag-honeywell-international-inc","19":"tag-invesco-aerospace-defense-etf","20":"tag-iran","21":"tag-ishares-u-s-aerospace-defense-etf","22":"tag-karoline-leavitt","23":"tag-l3harris-technologies-inc","24":"tag-lockheed-martin-corp","25":"tag-northrop-grumman-corp","26":"tag-politics","27":"tag-raytheon-technologies-corp","28":"tag-spdr-sp-aerospace-defense-etf"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116184451983587642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}