So, I guess our question is more about prioritization and how they come to their risk-based assessment.

But they have that now. They already have that.

He gives them a four times the area to patrol, while still not having enough assets.

General Mattis called that Handshake Con.

The only way you keep people from fishing in a marine sanctuary is Coast Guard patrols.

When you look at it right now, for instance, you have--the Coast Guard pulled, I think, how many of their ships from SOUTHCOM?

It only takes one, anyway, correct? Yes. You know, I would agree with you if I think that every single person in every military service could be trusted to use their best professional opinion and their personality to ensure the job getting…

What you are admitting is there is a bad system. You said--so basically you are saying there is systemic problems, and we rely right now upon the personality and direct intervention of those professionals with experience to determine the…

Plus CBP, not the Coast Guard, does most of the scanning. Customs and Border Protection.

Great, we will do it. That is a great idea.

the President is yet again proposing a budget that could doom it to failure.

This will further delay the delivery of new assets, increase acquisition costs for taxpayers, exacerbate growing capability gaps, and seriously degrade Coast Guard mission effectiveness.

If the President is going to continue to send us budgets that fail to pay for the assets needed to meet Coast Guard mission needs, then it is time for him and to you to review the Coast Guard mission responsibilities.

But what the problem has always been is that you can't complete your mission, because you have too many missions and not enough assets to do it. Right?

the Coast Guard currently operates tens, and in some cases, hundreds of thousands of hours short of its operational targets.

At some point you have to ask for what you can get.

I first want to thank the panel for their testimony today.

There is something deeply wrong with the day-to-day operations at the Bureau.