Richard Shelby: “Clearly, underfunding national defense is a mistake.”

A complex and evolving security environment requires a serious commitment to our national defense.

Because the administration has refused to fund the construction of a comprehensive barrier along the border, it has been compelled to send the National Guard to deal with the consequences.

Regrettably, this was all predictable and avoidable.

Russia's launched multiple hypersonic weapons as part of their invasion of the Ukraine and China is continuing to develop its own hypersonic weapons.