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Senate Holds Travel Funds Over Unredacted Civilian-Harm Docs

6/18/2026

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Senate Republicans are tying a freeze of most of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget to the Pentagon’s release of unredacted civilian-harm investigation documents.
The committee cited the April 2025 Yemen airstrike and the February 2026 Minab school bombing in Iran as civilian-casualty examples.
Lawmakers also demanded unedited video of the Caribbean boat strikes by U.S. Southern Command.
The Pentagon declined to comment on the travel-budget proposal.

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Senate Republicans are tying a freeze of most of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget to the Pentagon’s release of unredacted civilian-harm investigation documents.
The committee cited the April 2025 Yemen airstrike and the February 2026 Minab school bombing in Iran as civilian-casualty examples.
Lawmakers also demanded unedited video of the Caribbean boat strikes by U.S. Southern Command.
The Pentagon declined to comment on the travel-budget proposal.