Mark Kelly keeps stepping in it. On Sunday he went into great detail about the state of our munitions stores. It wasn’t that he said they’ve been depleted since everything started with Iran, it’s that he told the world WHAT was depleted. Of course, the Arizona media danced around what he said.

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly criticized what he calls a lack of strategy in the war with Iran, as well as the depleting stockpile of U.S. weaponry.

On CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Kelly says it will take years to replenish.

“This president got our country into this [war] without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline, and because of that we’ve spent a lot of munitions,” Kelly said. “And that means the American people are less safe. Whether it’s a conflict in the western Pacific, with China or somewhere else in the world, the munitions are depleted.”

Kelly also called the Trump administration’s defense budget request of $1.5 trillion “outrageous,” and nearly equal to the total amount the rest of the world spends on defense.

Yes, he said that. But he also said a whole lot more. 

After hearing the Pentagon classified brief on Iran war impact on US weapons stockpiles, Senator Mark Kelly says it is "shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines." He said the Tomahawks, ATACMS, SM-3, THAAD rounds, Patriot rounds, so those interceptor rounds to defend…

— Margaret Brennan (@margbrennan) May 10, 2026

“He said the Tomahawks, ATACMS, SM-3, THAAD rounds, Patriot rounds, so those interceptor rounds to defend ourselves have been hit hard. He says it’ll take years to replenish those stockpiles, which could affect a hypothetical US conflict with China.”

Read that again. After sitting in a CLASSIFIED briefing, Mark Kelly went on live TV and blabbed about information that he was given IN that classified briefing! 

You know, of course, that Mark Kelly and the rest of the Seditious Six think he and they can get away with not only urging soldiers to refuse orders they don’t like, but can blab at will about classified information. 

Needless to say, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is …NOT pleased. 

“Captain” Mark Kelly strikes again.

Now he’s blabbing on TV (falsely & dumbly) about a *CLASSIFIED* Pentagon briefing he received.

Did he violate his oath…again? @DeptofWar legal counsel will review. https://t.co/mPBZHxZqpr

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) May 10, 2026

I’m not either. It’s called a classified briefing for a reason. Which specifically includes … keeping your trap shut. It does not include going on live TV and blabbing key information about our weapon and munition stockpiles. 

By the way, those stockpiles didn’t just go POOF when everything hit the fan with Iran. Nope, this problem started with the Biden Administration shoveling ammunition and weaponry to Zelensky hand over fist every time he asked for more. 

The media is going to bat for Kelly given how they are phrasing this issue. 

An analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that the U.S. has used half of its inventory of munitions fighting Iran, and that it could take up to four years for the pre-war stock to be rearmed.

The Pentagon briefs members of Congress on classified materials behind closed doors, but it’s unclear whether Kelly violated any disclosure laws, as he did not get into specifics on the volume of weapons used or remaining in the CBS interview.

Hegseth has insisted the U.S. has sufficient ammunition to sustain fighting against Iran, though much of the anxiety inside defense circles is centered less on Tehran and more on the Pentagon’s ability to respond to another major conflict.

“That means the American people are less safe. Whether it’s a conflict with China or somewhere else in the world, the munitions are depleted,” Kelly said on CBS.

Kelly got pretty darned specific as to WHAT munitions and weaponry has been drained. To me, he skated on or tipped himself over the line with all of this. And then, today, he kept digging. 

We had this conversation in a public hearing a week ago and you said it would take “years” to replenish some of these stockpiles. That’s not classified, it’s a quote from you. This war is coming at a serious cost and you and the president still haven’t explained to the American… https://t.co/q3wX9AjRzO pic.twitter.com/5q7Gg81Xtg

— Senator Mark Kelly (@SenMarkKelly) May 11, 2026

The problem with his assertion is that Secretary Hegseth did NOT go into any specifics during that hearing. He kept it very high level. Kelly, on the other hand, got was very detailed.

For those claiming Kelly simply repeated what @SecWar Hegseth said during his testimony. Wrong.

He named specific weapons & said this was a problem BASED ON the classified briefing he had received. This is an excellent description why that is dangerous,https://t.co/4pWrvO7fdz

— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) May 11, 2026

Finally, you can darned well bet China is thrilled right now with Kelly blabbing about the state of specific weaponry and munitions. What he said on national tv is dangerous on all levels, but specifically to our soldiers and national security. 

Feature Photo Credit: Mark Kelly by Gage Skidmore via Flickr, cropped and modified