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Who would have thought that the smoked Ukrainian pears my mom faithfully mails from the village where I grew up in central Ukraine would find their way into Uman Ember, a cocktail special at Ellē in DC—and now into @POLITICO's National Security Daily spotlight!

It's Tuesday: President Donald J. Trump is in Saudi Arabia, and we're covering with Jack Detsch Aaron David Miller Rabbi Rick Jacobs plus Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 Danielle Alvarez Bobby Eberle and Paul Gross 7-9am ET Ch 124

Dem Senator Mark Kelly on the Defense Secretary's national security priorities and firings: "Not a normal administration." "They wanted unconventional, and this is what we get," he tells our defense reporter Jack Detsch at POLITICO Live's Security Summit.

Trump will announce $25 billion of funding for his Golden Dome project this afternoon. The price tag matches the amount in the president’s “big, beautiful bill” that lawmakers have yet to approve. POLITICO Paul McLeary Jack Detsch

Trump will announce $25B for Golden Dome this afternoon, a fraction of the expected $500B it could eventually cost to build the ambitious program he’s demanded. w/ Jake Traylor Jack Detsch politico.com/news/2025/05/2…

NEW: President Donald Trump will announce $25 billion for his “Golden Dome” defense project Tuesday afternoon, according to a White House official. It's just a fraction of the cost to build the ambitious national missile system he’s demanded. politico.com/news/2025/05/2…

Lot of numbers flying around. What I’m most interested in is 1/ what is Golden Dome required to do? EO demands comprehensive defence, but in practice admin will have to choose. 2/ what sort of architecture will they choose & what mix of interceptor types? 3/ who will build it?

.Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Pete Hegseth who allegedly runs the “most transparent DoD ever”with their one press briefing to date, continues to institute policies to curtail press coverage while touting operational security.

Pentagon reporters can now only walk to from their desks in the press pen to the main food court and the courtyard unescorted. To go anywhere else - including the communications spaces where service spokespeople sit - we need an escort.

Here's a very pointed statement tonight from the Pentagon Press Association, in full: May 23, 2025 There is no way to sugarcoat it. Today’s memo by Secretary Hegseth appears to be a direct attack on the freedom of the press and America’s right to know what its military is

NEW: Trump Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, who has only done one briefing, has been participating in introductory “DOD 101” courses to get up to speed on the DOD’s priorities, four people familiar with the matter told me, Jack Detsch and Paul McLeary. politico.com/newsletters/na…

‘Wake-up call’: Ukraine drone strike exposes dangers to US aircraft politi.co/4jtBTW5 w/ Connor O'Brien Jack Detsch

DOD's transformation of a Qatari jet into Air Force One will likely cost less than $400 million, the Air Force secretary said, the first price estimate provided by the Trump administration about the president’s controversial gift politico.com/news/2025/06/0… Jack Detsch POLITICO

A scoop in today’s Nat Sec Daily - Steve Witkoff briefed GOP senators who focus on nat sec issues on Iran this am

Russia still has expansive plans to occupy much of Ukraine and cut the country off from the Black Sea, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, casting serious doubts about Trump’s efforts to broker an end to the war. politico.com/newsletters/na…

If you’re a Marine or California Guardsman deployed in Los Angeles – or if you have any thoughts about what’s going on – I’d like to hear from you. You can reach me on Signal: Detsch.70. I am happy to keep it all on background.

New: President Trump loves displays of military force. He’s parading two very different kinds this week on opposite coasts. A look at Trump's transformation as commander-in-chief since Trump 1.0 w/ Jack Detsch Paul McLeary politico.com/news/2025/06/1…

CENTCOM Commander Gen. Kurilla, known as “the Gorilla,” has played a quiet but outsized role in shaping the Pentagon’s response to the crisis in the Middle East Jack Detsch & Paul McLeary report politico.com/news/2025/06/1…

Caudle has been officially nominated. Jack Detsch Joe Gould Daniel Lippman totally called it in April

👀Meanwhile, if you haven't read this story today abt the man who helped changed Trump's mind on Iran/Israel, you need to. Meet U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Erik Kurilla, AKA, "the Gorilla." This quote says it all: "He’s got the look of the general that both Hegseth and