SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said President Donald Trump supported the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, after Australia on Friday confirmed its first $500 million payment under the defense pact.

Pete Hegseth, the new Secretary of Defense of the USA, plans to visit Europe. He will meet with NATO allies. On February 12, he will participate in the Ramstein meeting in Brussels. The new Secretary of Defense of the USA,

Within hours of his inauguration, Mr. Trump began to pull security details from nearly a half-dozen people who had served in his first term, most of them under threat for enforcing his Iran policy.

U.S. President Donald Trump has revoked federal security protection for former U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter.

President Donald Trump has revoked the security detail assigned to his former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a person familiar with the matter confirmed Wednesday, adding to the growing list of officials who have faced retribution from their onetime boss.

President Donald Trump of the United States has revoked the security detail for Mark T. Esper, a former defence secretary. Esper is among several officials who are facing threats from Iran due to the actions they took on behalf of Trump during his first term.

Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has become the latest ex-official from President Trump’s first term to lose their security detail, according to a report. The Pentagon revoked Esper’s taxpayer-funded security detail on Tuesday night,