Secretary Pete Hegseth of the Department of Defense told a CNN reporter that his department focuses on war fighting and training, not "climate change crap."

Pete Hegseth says the Defense Department doesn’t ‘do’ climate change despite being one of the largest polluters - The U.S. military has been identified as the single-largest consumer of energy in the U.

The military has a long history of research into climate change. Now the department said the ending of climate and other research makes fiscal sense.