I'm grateful for your bipartisan efforts to raise the budget caps for fiscal year 2018 and fiscal year 2019.

I look forward to working with Congress to make our funding sustained and predictable so we can fully restore our competitive military advantage.

We cannot let this stand.

Because, you know, armies don't go to war, nations go to war, and armies don't win wars, nations win wars.

I would say I am more optimistic now about North Korea than I was just a short while ago.

I think General Dunford said it the best way. He said we are losing our qualitative and quantitative edge.

Sustained Congressional support will ensure we remain ready, agile, and effective in deterring strategic attack, assuring our allies and partners today and into the future.

A fully resourced defense budget leading into long term stability will send a strong signal to our allies and partners.

The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review calls for the development of a low-yield nuclear weapon in the range of approximately 10 kilotons to counter Russia's tactical nuclear weapons.

Both Russia and China are developing hypersonic capabilities. We have watched them test those capabilities.

We must be prepared to face the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.

if you do not have the right response, you could put the United States in a position where the two choices for the President would be surrender or suicide

America is safer and more secure because we work with and through our allies.

I was opposed to that all the way through. But the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was established to ensure that Iran's nuclear program would be exclusively peaceful.

The Army plans on repositioning two fully modernized armored brigade sets of equipment in Belgium and Netherlands.

It's important for the American people to understand the threats that we do face, not just here, but in China also.

I agree with that, too.

When nations do not live up to treaties, treaties are not sustainable.